Lemur, the main characters, a gnome and his wife who live in the forest and ride a fox and have hijinx with trolls, suddenly announce that it is their time to die. They ride up into the mountains and transform into a pair of trees, leaving their fox friend alone in the world.

@Utz: I was all set to disagree with you and say that Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts, and Pete & Pete were all on at the same time — but you're right, there's a very slight divide, although the Pete & Pete shorts WERE on at the same time as the other shows. I was born in 83 and I remember being crazy for Pete & Pete,…

Also I totally said it wasn't worth rehashing and then rehashed it anyway, and for that I apologize. That said, that said, that said.

The last time Tosh got mentioned I went into a big rant about how it's clearly an ironic put-on and not an ACTUAL "hur hur equal opportunity offensiveness, you're not PC, are you???" schtick like Carlos Mencia or his ilk, but it wasn't especially well-reasoned and it isn't worth rehashing.

Engine Block Cookery
You actually can cook on an engine block pretty well, within the limits of "dishes you can cook wrapped in tinfoil," but I think really the only place that is hot enough to do actual cooking is the exhaust manifold, which is often not really easily accessible without removing the plastic engine…

Margot at the Wedding
I don't get Margot at the Wedding. Everyone was either a terrible caricature (the neighbors, Jack Black [who was basically a Jack Black character taken out of a Jack Black film and put in a regular movie]) or just incredibly unlikable. I basically mentally recoiled in revulsion away from the…

@Tom S, The Canaller - Yeah, I was speaking primarily about the books (although you could make the same argument about the films), and definitely only in a structural sense. Obviously the plot details of both are hideously complex, it's just that in Big Sleep they serve a fairly standard detective format whereas in…

Also… the Big Sleep is totally the touchpoint for at least half of noir and noir-related things. The Big Lebowski, The Long Goodbye, and especially Chinatown are pretty much just riffs on the basic sketched plot of the Big Sleep - the rich millionaire, his daughters/wives who are really more dangerous than they…

@Tom S

I'm actually just finishing up the book for the first time right now, having seen Altman's film several years ago. It really is a faithfully unfaithful adaptation, and the character of Marlowe is especially true to the spirit of the character in the books while at the same time altering it greatly.

Pretty sure he's reading the contract Gandalf and the Dwarves make him sign.

Far from me to kiss ass, but I honestly think the AV Club has some great interviewers, in large part because they tend to only briefly address the "current big issue" the person is being interviewed for and then quickly go to other obscure minutia from the past in a lot of cases. They also do their god damn research.…

Honestly, it's a good show
The weakest parts are Tosh's intentionally offensive jokes. They work great in his standup act, where the tone of his act is so obviously absurd that it's all but impossible to take seriously (although he seemed to have reworked his schtick in his most recent standup bit, IMO for the worse),…

Yeah, WWDOOSV is a pretty heavy chunk of television considering its format. It touches on a lot of really bizarre stuff and sort of takes weird jokes like Mr. Tastee to logical real-world conclusions. The scene where Pete, Pete, and Ellen tell him they want to be friends with him and he just keeps trying to give them…

More Journey.

I just went back and read through the original article. Jezebel covered Munn being originally brought in when she was first hired, but it wasn't really overly critical of TDS. They wrote the main piece (the one that received all the attention) a few weeks after she had started.

Olivia Munn actually showed up on the Daily Show a few weeks before the Jezebel piece ran.

In short, the Daily Show correspondent bit made her a flashpoint. Her first few appearances were extremely awkward, much moreso than even the typically awkward first appearances of their off-and-on correspondents. I've seen one or two now that were decent, but she definitely wasn't impressive out of the gate. As far…

The first thing I thought when I saw that promo image was that it looked like an to Harold and Maude. The jacket and the hairstyle are really similar to what Bud Cort wears for a lot of the film.

Incidentally, are the DVD transfers for the first two seasons as bad as people say? I've had a number of people tell me they look way worse than they should, even for a show filmed when it was with the budget it probably had. People were actually saying the bootlegs were better quality.