Me believes the joke is that those are all the same thing, and Burns and Smithers are such connoisseurs of ballet that they can actually tell the difference, of which there is none.

Oh yeah, definitely. Those are amazing. I love love love "Vaster than Empires and More Slow." And she even says something like, "No, the title is not based on the pacing" which is… slow.

Oh yeah, definitely. Those are amazing. I love love love "Vaster than Empires and More Slow." And she even says something like, "No, the title is not based on the pacing" which is… slow.

Huntress Wizard is seriously one of the coolest character designs, I think. Makes me wanna roll up a D&D character based on her or something, since me big dork. Or maybe just pages and pages of Ice King-esque erotic fan fiction. Nah, the D&D thing.

Huntress Wizard is seriously one of the coolest character designs, I think. Makes me wanna roll up a D&D character based on her or something, since me big dork. Or maybe just pages and pages of Ice King-esque erotic fan fiction. Nah, the D&D thing.

This episode also features some of the best commentary on the DVD from Jewel Staite and Alan Tudyk - at one point, making fun of how Wash's schtick of being completely calm under pressure while flying was discarded for this episode, Tudyk says something like, "Jerry Lewis is flying the ship! Oh God! We're in space!"

This episode also features some of the best commentary on the DVD from Jewel Staite and Alan Tudyk - at one point, making fun of how Wash's schtick of being completely calm under pressure while flying was discarded for this episode, Tudyk says something like, "Jerry Lewis is flying the ship! Oh God! We're in space!"

Yep, pretty sure they ain't got the FTL travel. I think the inhabited planets and moons are supposed to be one big ol' system, though god knows how that's supposed to work. I would interpret Mal's "galaxy of earths" as the poetic license of an intelligent dude not overburdened with an abundance of schooling.

Yep, pretty sure they ain't got the FTL travel. I think the inhabited planets and moons are supposed to be one big ol' system, though god knows how that's supposed to work. I would interpret Mal's "galaxy of earths" as the poetic license of an intelligent dude not overburdened with an abundance of schooling.

So my friend, he runs into Steve Guttenberg on the street, really drunk. (Both of them, actually.) Guttenberg gives me friend a ticket to his new movie (this is around like Twenty Aught-Four or Five or so.)

Call
me crazy, but I always just assumed the eight foot spirit owl would
just let Professor Doofus stay with him in the library, considering the
latter's devotion to knowledge at all costs. Seems like the appropriate spirit world thing to do.

This whole thread reads like there's a gas leak in the room.

"Sure as he'll"?! Fucking iPod auto-correction bullshit.

Tibetan Rock-Throwing
I find that Agent Cooper's mystical rock hucking investigation neatly encapsulates Twin Peaks' duality: On one hand, like Coop says, it's "a deductive technique involving mind-body coordination operating hand-in-hand with the deepest levels of intuition," and there certainly is an ethereal…

hmm
I'm going to file this under "such a fucking ludicrously bad idea it just might be the best thing ever."

Well, I admire your optimism, if not your abrasiveness. Good luck finding some real friends and all.

New motto?
"Just because your're on the Internet doesn't mean you have to say something.". Wow, can that be translated into Latin and made the motto of the AV Club comments? They're like 86% ghoulish/obnoxious these days.