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Even the flashbacks didn't do anything for me. I can always get a derisive snort from my girlfriend by repeating the ridiculous "MY NAME … IS LEE ADAMA … AND I LOVE … KARA THRACE" line.

I didn't mind "Black Market," because at that point in the series (late season 1? early season 2?) I thought it was going to be the first step in a long-running effort to sketch in the details of a society evolving under extreme circumstances. Sadly, it wasn't long before the writers abandoned that path and went…

Ditto. I liked "Hamlet." Part of the fun of that episode wasn't the riffing, but just watching and silently marveling at how inept the production was. Which, granted, if you're not terribly familiar with the play, may not have been much fun.

Are you serious? "300 Big Boys" is amazing. So many quotable lines! Plus, the scene where Fry drinks his 100th cup of coffee, everything slows down, and he sees the hummingbird at the window, still holds the record for how hard a Futurama moment has made me laugh.

Would you say it was … gagworthy?

Yeah, "Bender's Game" was wretched. It was so bad I didn't even bother with the fourth movie.

Exactly. "Out of character"? The show has shown over and over that Walt is a control freak who, after years of a milquetoast suburban life, is desperate to assert his dominance. That's the whole reason he got into meth cooking in the first place! He hated feeling helpless and useless in the face of cancer and Elliot's…

"I'll probably buy the series of Blu-Ray because it's the best quality print the series will ever be reproduced in."

The final lines of Smith's poem are pretty great ("What powerful but unrecorded race / Once dwelt in that annihilated place"), but it's a bit too on-the-nose. Shelley's verse is more graceful, too.

"The way a bratty kid in a school cafeteria mixes the contents of his lunchbox."

"I Got a Good Night's Sleep"
"Charity Work Is Difficult but Rewarding"
"I Really Like Pumpkin Pie"

@avclub-58238e9ae2dd305d79c2ebc8c1883422:disqus , by the time we get to the 5th Blu-Ray release, Chewbacca will have become a Gungan voiced by Eddie Murphy, the Emperor will have been digitally replaced by a space-bat, and Darth Vader's voice will be dubbed over with a nonstop loop of James Earl Jones sobbing (just so…

Dear JokersNuts,

From my point of view it is the humans who are evil!

Michael Chiklis?

Then again, working in a long-form series format could make the series slow down and actually develop characters and interesting conflicts. Unlike the book, which just threw in a bunch of cardboard cutouts so King could mash them against each other, Army Men-style, while making exploding noises with his mouth.

"[The resolution] comes off as arbitrary and illogical."

I'd say it's a novel driven more by lazy, cardboard caricatures (stock straight-shooting army guy, stock spunky old lady, stock religious fundamentalist, stock dumb hicks). It never fails to mystify me how "Under the Dome" gets so much praise when it's pretty much King giving in to his worst writing instincts.

Too bad for this guy that he was just in "Austin Powers." If he'd starred in a critical darling like "Chinatown," celebrities would be lining up around the block to make excuses for him.