The 70s happened though. We can't just ignore it and pretend like they didn't or we won't have learned anything and it will happen again.

Didn't he already get one of those for The Lion King though?

It seemed weirder that the episode itself starts off with a completely unrelated funeral. There's not way they could have planned this, it just sort of oddly happened.

I believe you mean "rumpus room".

There can really never be enough acclaim for Sneakers. Unlike other films, especially of its 90s hacker film ilk (e.g. The Net, Hackers), even when it fails to get the details right it has the spirit nailed. The focus on social engineering and largely realistic uses of cracking has always made it a popular choice…

So you're saying it's not like Tarkovsky?

It's not just the casting, but the way in which they also manage to make every show into a teen drama that's more focused on romantic sub-plots than the ostensible concept.

A rare case of absolutely perfect grading.

Meh, Charles as the new leader of the church was pretty obvious. They didn't even really need to show it. You know it's going to happen when he leaves the band. Just like it was obvious that the original leader was going to die (minor character, his death has no real effect on anything and it paves the way for Charles…

It's clearly foreshadowed as Murderface. He's unappreciated (because he's a bassist) and in the bar that one guy talks up how he isn't an asshole like the rest and encourages him with Planet Piss.

Yeah, while candy corn is clearly one of the best possible candies the pumpkins are even better. It's hard to explain exactly why since they're just the same thing in a different shape, but they are.

The horrible thing about this is that the original film still made $90 million in profit. Just think about that for a moment. A terrible, mediocre, also-ran movie that you didn't even bother to mock, let alone see has still made more money than you will ever see in your life.

Well, Fox tried to knock it off with Animation Domination HD which is… OK. Axe Cop was pretty good, but not classic and High School USA was better than Frankenhole as far as Dino Stamatopolous also-ran projects go. The biggest problem is really that they only apparently made six episodes of each and run two each every…

It's why I've been saying for a while now that Joss should really be the one to write/direct Spider Man. It's alternating brooding and quipping. He's perfect for it.

You mean Marvel Girl… wait a second.

Well, the Phoenix Saga was something like 10 (from roughly #99-109) and it was a necessary set-up. But during that era a lot of the arcs blended more harmoniously into each other. The ending of one led more directly into the start of the next one most of the time.

Nah, it'd just be more introspective brooding. I still love that one sequence in "The Zeppo" where Xander interrupts Buffy and Angel in the middle of one of their cliche mope-fests. Somehow Whedon was never quite able to learn from that though.

Because he's generally a humorless prick? Yeah, he's been there since the beginning and is often important, but is he really anybody's favorite character?

Actually that was one of my criticisms of the show. In the book Drogo is trying not to be all rapey about it. That scene is the first indication she gets that maybe he's actually a real person who might be capable of legitimately caring about her. But nope, the show just pretty much has him raping her.

I never fully understood how they fit in with him having Duff on tap in the rumpus room.