"that's over 150 atmospheres of pressure!"
"how many atmospheres can the ship withstand?"
"well, it's a spaceship, so i'd say anywhere between zero and one."

sometimes i doubt your commitment to newtonian motion, futurama.
since the show is all about incredibly nerdy jokes, i was eager to hear one explaining why da Vinci's spacecraft had flapping wings and spirally blades that would only work in an atmosphere. but nothing! that's my biggest (pretty small) disappointment…

confused…
my acquaintance with the x-files mythology is a pretty sparse. is there some Big Reason why bruckman tells scully she won't die?

he's got a great face. i just can't deal with people with such cartoonish physiques. i don't know, maybe it's perfectly possible to make your body into that shape with the right genes, a natural diet, and only a couple gym hours a day… but i still can't shut off the voice in my head that says, "this is an…

i went to junior high and high school with one of them, Matt Kretzmann. he's not at all an idiot, he's the nicest, humblest guy you could ever meet, and he's gotten even better looking since high school.

"of course! the hat goes on the head! it's so obvious now!"

it is a tumor!
i love the seeming realism of the portrayal of joyce's cancer. when she suddenly experiences drastic mood changes and disorientation, and says things to her daughters like, "you're disgustingly fat!" (then not remembering it seconds later) it's terrifying in a very believable way. i don't actually…

at least in terms of looks and execution, the snake demon was way worse than the queller. i kind of liked the way the queller was so clumsy and awkward-looking.

didn't we already deja this vu?

for me, buffy was never really the star of buffy, but she had some great moments.

for complicated reasons, i watched the series entirely after it aired, pretty much backwards.

for me, in terms of "objective-ish" subjective quality, nothing can match season 3 of buffy (and end of season 2), which is, for lack of a better description, just brimming with joy in its craft. and i don't mean feel-good joyfulness, just work that makes you believe everyone involved was really passionate and having…

i saw the most amazing documentary about the norwegian prison system, which involves convicts going out during the day to work, and then returning (on the honor system) at night to think more about what they've done. and bizarrely, it seems to work for them. but that might just be because the crime rate is so low to…

gay robosexual marriage would just further blur the line between the already ill-defined robot sexes!

but… you're too late! they already did! so… you are!

that's why i put that disclaimer in. i know it turns people off by seeming strident, but i feel it's important to make people pay attention to these issues. being in a persecuted minority fosters that sort of oversensitivity, as a means of defending your community.

from my perspective, it's worth an extra note condemning the actors who auditioned for and participated in that commercial (which was documented, if i recall: these were actors, not actual parents/teachers/firefighters/whatevers)

"i don't know how to teach—i'm a professor!"

only to the extent that a violation of the 14th amendment can be protected by the 10th.

uninspired
anyone else feels like this new season has been pretty perfunctory so far? to me it feels like they were surprised to get uncanceled and hadn't really thought ahead, and are instead relying on formulas, randomness, and puns (some of which are good, but in a proportion that doesn't bode well).