I'm a college professor, so I've seen a lot of plagiarism. This is an edge case, but I'll allow it. The ideas Pizzolatto and Ligotti are spouting aren't original to either of 'em, and the specific turns of phrase are straight out of the grab bag of stock nihilistic idioms, so it's not surprising to find some…

So if I can translate the business lingo here, he's saying "We can't make a female superhero movie because the world needs twenty more Captain America movies first."

My ringtone is the credits theme from Buckaroo Banzai. Nobody gets it, but that's OK.

Wait, I'm confused, which side of the graph is "tolerable" and which side is "unbearable"?

It's amazing how far Playboy has gotten with its trademark 3-step celebrity interview process: 1) pay for unlimited drinks 2) turn on tape recorder 3) wait.

"Earned credibility lasts longer than purchased credibility, but it’s not like the latter doesn’t exist" — bon mot of the week!

OK, so that was ridiculous and fun.

Okay, it's The Wire / Walking Dead mixed-teams dodgeball, and you're a team captain. You're choosing people for your side, and the last two people left to pick are Andrea and Ziggy Sobotka. Who do you choose?

What about Wallace? Where's Wallace? As I recall, they shot him in the chest, so he could come back…

Let me guess, you were a college freshman when you saw it?

Hell, never mind watching, I'd pay $10 a month just for a massive library of movies that can be erased from my brain on demand.

So you're saying you were into Transformers before it was cool?

Wisecracks about Jay and Silent Bob aside, there's some really good stuff in this list. Well, stuff I want to be able to watch anyway. Brick, Being John Malkovich, Do The Right Thing, Platoon? Really?

When I was a kid we went to see Star Trek IV: the Search for Whales at our local nearly-bankrupt 1-screen movie theater. While watching it, I couldn't figure out why the end of the movie was filmed at dusk, slowly fading to darkness during the triumphant ending. Then it went completely black, and the theater owner…

Aerosmith, "Pump". I have no one to blame but myself.

I'm guessing there's an ex-boyfriend involved in this story.

Okay I looked it up. Manfred Mann didn't write *any* of their #1 hits.

Jeff Bridges.

"Networks"? "Time slots"? What is this, the 20th century?

Here's the deal though: by moving Beckett to DC to work on National Crisis stuff she can't talk to Castle about, they've locked themselves out of the fun version of Castle.  If they really intend to stick with this premise, they've sucked the life out of the show.  If they don't, they're wasting our time with this…