Favourite coma-victim detail from The Dead Zone: "'What does
this guy Ruopp want with me, if he's such a superstar?' Johnny asked.  Superstar
was a word he had learned from Marie. She had used it in connection with a balding, bespectacled singer with the unlikely name of Elton John."

Favourite coma-victim detail from The Dead Zone: "'What does
this guy Ruopp want with me, if he's such a superstar?' Johnny asked.  Superstar
was a word he had learned from Marie. She had used it in connection with a balding, bespectacled singer with the unlikely name of Elton John."

Whatever prompted those first couple of lines to come into his head, the song as a whole always seemed to me to be about vanity and selfishness, especially since it's something that crops up in other songs, like the excellent Best Friend off the same album. Great song, anyway.

Whatever prompted those first couple of lines to come into his head, the song as a whole always seemed to me to be about vanity and selfishness, especially since it's something that crops up in other songs, like the excellent Best Friend off the same album. Great song, anyway.

Sheer Heart Attack! No-one ever mentions that album. That was the first pre-recorded cassette I bought, & it's still a favourite album.
Glad you and your dad were OK

Septembre!

Septembre!

"Don't ever stand for that sort of thing! Someone ever tries to kill you, 
you try to kill 'em right back!

…and isn't it amazing that we can have two or more parallel favourite episodes, in such a short show? The quippy glory of this one and the eerie unsettling Objects in Space, and…

…and isn't it amazing that we can have two or more parallel favourite episodes, in such a short show? The quippy glory of this one and the eerie unsettling Objects in Space, and…

The pause after he says that is exactly the right length to the microsecond.

The pause after he says that is exactly the right length to the microsecond.

"…there’s a lifestyle that she’s become accustomed to, and part of that lifestyle is having flirty arguments with Malcolm Reynolds. And now that’s all about to be destroyed"

Don't start that again. Lance Hunt wears glasses, Captain Amazing doesn't wear glasses.

Don't start that again. Lance Hunt wears glasses, Captain Amazing doesn't wear glasses.

That was a perfect summing-up of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People - Young really seemed to think it was a witty and self-deprecating account of his adventures among those crazy yanks, but every paragraph just revealed him as even more of a creepy shit than we already thought.

That was a perfect summing-up of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People - Young really seemed to think it was a witty and self-deprecating account of his adventures among those crazy yanks, but every paragraph just revealed him as even more of a creepy shit than we already thought.

@avclub-e129a878f7b0e5aa9ac09e0282f64ea6:disqus It happens the other way round in the UK, too. A guy I worked with once told me that he had done "jack shit" and that our boss was therefore going to kick his "butt". And I swear I once heard someone say their car needed "gas" - you know, just like in the movies.

@avclub-e129a878f7b0e5aa9ac09e0282f64ea6:disqus It happens the other way round in the UK, too. A guy I worked with once told me that he had done "jack shit" and that our boss was therefore going to kick his "butt". And I swear I once heard someone say their car needed "gas" - you know, just like in the movies.

It mainly seemed like a joke about popular images and self-images of the US and the UK, contrived to get some good material from the lovely Reginald D Hunter. Racism is an endlessly-discussed, massive issue in Britain, and anyone who suggested it wasn't a problem would just look crazy. 
Maybe watch it again, and…