Yeah, I was sorry to see Derek Jacobi regenerate - as an actor, he has a tendency to chew the scenery when not kept in check, but it would have been entirely appropriate for The Master.

I suppose it's possible - I know they did parody versions of other shows throughout their run (e.g. "I Love Lucy"), so they may well have had something like that in mind.

Could be, I guess? I believe shooting a TV show on video was generally a budgetary choice, but you might be right - it's not like I have inside knowledge or anything.

Failing that, they're good for this purpose, at least: www.whencanireusethiscalend…

Apparently! Well, an extremely unprofessional person, at the very least: she'd do stuff like have other characters' lines taken away from them and reassigned to her, if they got a big laugh during run-throughs - which she could get away with, seeing as it was her production company that made the show…

The Nanny is actually a pretty decent show, as far as the writing (and casting) goes. What counts against it now are the fact that it was shot on video, so it looks sort of shitty by today's standards; and the retrospective knowledge that Fran Drescher was, by all accounts, a fairly horrible person to work with.

Kind of, but it's still mostly just that one guy behaving as though he's Joseph N. Welch denouncing Joe McCarthy at the Army-McCarthy hearings.

Hey, you're from Hong Kong? Then you've probably met my cousin Cedric, he lives on the Kowloon side - you know the guy.

More a case of "who taught this guy to use Disqus?" - going by his profile (Breitbart News, National Review, Daily Caller), he's just your typical drive-by commenter. Can the A.V. Club just hurry up and dump Disqus already?

You know, I used to be a fan of the MCU movies, but on this, the 2,953rd occasion when Manimal showed up in the comments section of an article about an MCU movie to tell everyone how stupid they were for liking the thing that they liked, whaddya know - he’s finally changed my mind! Marvel Cinematic Universe movies are…

A song of hers that one can listen to without embarrassment (i.e. it's actually quite good) is "Where the Wild Roses Grow", her "murder ballad" duet with Nick Cave: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

The funny thing is, though Vegemite is arguably a ripoff of Marmite, Weetabix is actually a kind of (semi-authorised) knockoff of Weetbix, or so says Wikipedia. So for once, we Aussies didn't steal some else's intellectual property.

I don't know where you're going, but for both Marmite and Vegemite, the yeast is supposedly a byproduct of beer brewing.

The reasoning (such as it is) is probably that most states will have begun their school holidays somewhere around that date.

Featuring Bryan Brown, as Steve the generic Australian - sample dialogue: "Strewth, Macca, you've gone and lost the flamin' tapes, ya bloody dickhead! Crikey!" (not verbatim, but close enough)

Sorry, pal - if I can't earn 97$ an hour and buy brand new Land Rover Range Rovers after earning $8752 each month, I'm just not interested.

Or perhaps he means that Bon Scott sounds exactly like original vocalist Dave Evans? …no, that makes even less sense.

Sounds interesting (if horrifying - hopefully it's not based on a true story) - it seems to be available online in chopped-up form, starting here: http://www.dailymotion.com/…

Yes, I stopped reading after "Brownstein leaves for her next interview" - I don't really like much of anything Armisen does, so I certainly don't need to know what his favorite albums in high school were.

Sorry! I was just making a dopey cross-(pop) culture reference to something else (there is no such movie).