"Triangle" isn't much like the other "light" episodes, anyway.  It's not a comedy episode.  It's the X-Files as a 1940s action movie with Mulder spouting quips as he punches Nazis.  I love the episodes that completely depart from the standard X-Files mood and just do their own thing.  "The Unnatural" is another one.

I love the Bono talk show sketch because it's not even a parody.  No gags, just a straightforward depiction of what would happen if Bono had a talk show.

I love the Bono talk show sketch because it's not even a parody.  No gags, just a straightforward depiction of what would happen if Bono had a talk show.

Best Doctor episodes of Voyager:

Best Doctor episodes of Voyager:

My husband and I have taken to assuming that every movie will end with a Samuel L. Jackson post-credits sting.

But where did the lighter fluid come from?

Okay, yes, I have read the book!  The tuxedo guy and dog-man are both characters who got cut from the movie.  The tuxedo guy is a Depression-era gangster who owned the Overlook for a while and used it for mob stuff.  In the book, he's the most powerful of the Overlook's many ghosts and the main power source for…

Sandman was the comic that got me into comics when I was a disaffected high-school nerd.  For a while, pointy-headed Comics Journal types had me convinced that my younger self was wrong to like that fantasy goth crap, but then I went back and read the whole thing, and no, it's actually awesome.

They recently reprinted it with a new coloring job, and the early issues are incredibly more readable.  Sandman has a lot of issues where bad, rushed inking and/or coloring ruined perfectly good art (in addition to the early Sam Keith stuff, there's an issue in A Game of You where the inker basically just scribbled…

Every public high school has one department taught by coaches, and that's why I know crap about history.

The only tattoo I have, I designed myself; I've never identified enough with someone else's work to make it part of my body.  That said, the closest I've come is Petunia from Pete and Pete.  I might actually do it if the inner forearm weren't such a painful place to get tattooed.

It's terrible, but the character designs Bakshi ripped off Vaughn Bode and other cartoonists are boss.

Sir, thank you for your sacrifice for your country.  That episode is brilliant.

The main reason I didn't get into BOT when it aired, aside from the horrible, horrible title, was that Ted is such a nothing character.  He's mildly nice, he reacts with mild dismay to the evil things the company does, and he a mild romantic subplot which he won't consummate for dumb (but mild) reasons.  Screw that…

In its final season, My Name Is Earl did a joke about the guy in the documentary "King of Kong" who goes around announcing the kill screen.  That deserves some kind of award.

I remember Judy Blume writing once (in a nonfiction book) that kids are expected to just suck it up over stuff that adults would be running to the police over.  If you're an adult, and there's a guy at your workplace who keeps threatening to kill you, you can get that guy arrested and fired.  Same goes if he punches…

Amazingly, my middle school teachers were some of my best teachers ever. The high school faculty had its share of burnouts awaiting retirement and coaches who taught because they had to teach something to get continued access to the girls' volleyball team, but all my middle-school teachers were smart, energetic, and…

My first exposure to LoTR was an edition of The Hobbit illustrated with stills from the Bakshi movie, and to this day, even after all the new movies and the teenage years I spent obsessing over Tolkein instead of getting laid, those doughy, deflated, magenta Bakshi faces are the way I picture the characters.

I worked on a Watchmen museum show to which Warners loaned a bunch of movie props, and they were nothing short of amazing.  The prop magazines all had in-universe ads (for the Veidt Method and Nostalgia perfume) on the back covers.  There were engraved trophies and framed photos.  Rorschach's journal was filled in, no…