At least their early songs about fucking are sort of just energetic, dumb fun. And they have a few good songs about wrestling with addiction and depression. Their catalog is about 90% nonsense, though.

I always interpreted it as a figurative character on Jude's shoulder, whispering advice into his ear.

Posting a cell phone video of his entire set is about as much of a dick move as heckling. Comedians gotta tour the country with their set for at least a year; it doesn't help when their material gets burned by everyone watching it first on youtube. I know somebody else filmed it, but you don't have to publicize it…

Fry: "Now you're trapped in a Simpsons episode *I* wrote. A crummy episode of plot holes and spelling errors."

The Seinfeld philosophy of eschewing a moral message is what makes it more influential. At the time, pretty much every sitcom had to end with a family-friendly moral, or a hug, or a reconciliation. Even The Simpsons, or the gritty, cynical Roseanne still followed this rule. Now, there's tons of shows that are…

I like that they were reaching so far for material that there are TWO versions each of Crawling and Freak on a Leash.

Oops, that's who I meant to say: Katara

Good fiction accesses emotions about the human condition that we already possess, and makes us re-feel them. It's possible to watch a fictional character die and have it remind you, even subconsciously, of when someone you knew died, or of your own mortality, or your loved ones' impending mortality. We also have…

Probably just set the rudder to one side - would cause it to circle.

Katara can blood-bend! In a full moon, anyway. That also reminds me, Korra got some kind of energy-bending ability in S1 that she used to restore people's bending; I wonder if she'll employ that in some way against Zaheer.

Water bender should take on a lava bender. Can use the water to cool the lava…it turns into steam but a good waterbender can change the state of matter easily and would recapture it. Air-bender would work too, since they could potentially cool the lava, or just fly above it. Obviously Bumi's not experienced enough…

Plus it seems implied that Katara specialized in the healing arts of water-bending in peacetime. I think they mentioned in Korra S1 that she was one of the world's best healers.

I think what Zaheer's got going for him, is even though he's not a very experienced bender, he's probably one of the world's best martial artists, and has a strong spirit-world connection as well. Remember how well Mai, Ty Lee, and Equalists chi-blockers fought against benders?

It was possible at one point, but with all the evidence against it now, it would be a serious plot-cheat if they revealed that now. It'd mean she even potentially sacrificed her own daughter.

Wanted to see Kya steal her arms right off of her body, would have been a cool tactic, even if then Ming Hua subsequently took them back.

Apparently, she doesn't have avatar-state anymore. And the show has kept her on the ropes / constantly playing catch-up so that she's never really had the chance to assemble a formidable force to attack them with. Presumably, Korra, Tenzin, Kya, Lin, Mako, Bolin, an elite metal-bending squadron, and maybe some of…

Plus, a good 2/3 of the content on most talk shows is skippable filler. Like SNL in that way. Just watch the highlight clips the next day.

Tom Baker's hair really staked its claim on this composite.

This was indeed a great film. Perhaps it got overshadowed by the other corrupt cop movie LA Confidential, which came out 1 month later.

An interesting career: he was a stand-up legend, although his comedy did not age well at all. But his dramatic acting was great…as people were listing their favorite movie of his, I realized how many great dramas he was in that I didn't recall at first. Like, "oh yeah, I forgot he was in Garp!" Then, "Oh yeah,…