I love "The Royale". I really, really love it. It's not one of the objective bests of the series, but it's a top-5 favorite for me.

Agreed re Married with Children, but with a caveat - it was only that way for the first 7 years or so. Those last 3-4 years they veered off into pretty broad caricatures. Peg really didn't seem to have much to do or any reason to be married to Al other than as a character to move the plot forward.

I vote for drugs and poverty. The first is a war against human brain chemistry - unless you can engineer some sort of bionic brain you're screwed. I guess you could medicate the brain to not respond to THC, coke, booze, etc. but then you're substituting one drug to the other.
and the war on poverty has a constantly…

@ GeoGreg, your question re the value of intellectual property is irrelevant - it doesn't have to have any monetary value at all to be covered by copyright law. If you create it, you own it, whether or not you're ever able to make any money off of it. It's entirely the creator's decision what to do with his or her…

@ beast - not sure if you're being sarcastic here, but that sounds OK to me. I don't know why paying for things is so unreasonable to some people. if you like it enough to pay for it, then by all means purchase it. if you don't like it enough to pay for it, then you don't really need to own it, do you?

I think he pretty much covered it as much as it needs to be covered here.

He's back - in pog form!

I think we used to watch that same video in school whenever the math teacher was hungover / just plain given up for the day. Was it the one with Jaime Escalante?

back in 2002 I worked with this guy who was easily the stupidest person I've ever met. so stupid that if I went out to lunch and saw his car in the parking lot at Taco Bell, I'd go somewhere else just so I didn't have to talk to him. Anyway, the day after the 2002 grammy's, he comes into work all astounded that John…

if you check out their essential mix, they play Tommorow Never knows about an hour in - They mix it in pretty well. as TNK is my favorite beatles song and the Chemical Brothers are my favorite musicians, it just doesn't get any better than that for me.

I agree - that break totally caught me by surprise the first time I listened to it. And I swear the crescendo later in Escape velocity has the same timing as the crescendo in "A Day In The Life". That's a nice touch IMO.

@whenever - I didn' say he's always 100% relevant, or that he's usually discusing a topic of earth-shattering importance. But stuff like the button rant (which I haven't seen but can probably guess what it was like) is still cool with me. It's nice to stop and consider things like that from time to time. And it's only…

That's exactly why I love the guy - he's got his viewpoint and he's sticking with it. Why shouldn't he?

I like WATN also. I thought the two before it were abit uneven, but WATN was a return to form for the Chemical Brothers. The first couple of tracks drag a little bit, but after that it's non-stop excellence. And I even like "The Salmon Dance" (I'm guessing that's the track Michealangelo is refering to as "twerpy"…

DYOH was my favorite for a long time. I'd argue that "Block Rockin Beats", cheesy as it may be, is an absolutely perfect song. It does exactly what it claims to do, and there's not a beat out of place. It's perfectly balanced - enough big beats and breaks to sound great on a good stereo system, but not so much that…

It kinda pisses me off
That the Chemical Brothers annoited as The Next Best Thing back in 1997. That's not a criticism of mentioning it in the review, becuase it's relevant and it's probably most people's largest point of reference for the Chemical Brothers.

3 or 4 of them have pretty nice female vocals from Stephanie Dosen, Although they're not featured as prominently as the Beth Ortonvocals used to be. Stephanie Dosen

You'd probably like this one then. It doesn't have the hip-hop influence that Brothers Gonna Work it Out has*, but they're back to making beats just as big as they did back in the day. I'd say that this and We Are the Night are every bit as good as their early work (Come With Us and Push the Button were a bit uneven…

I take that back, there were other plots that happened in other hospitals. although the main storyline was confined to the ER

That's a good point. and there's also one where 3 of the main characters are quarantined inside the ER for a few weeks do to a smallpox outbreak Smallpox seemed to break out in the ER almost as often as helicopters fell on Dr Romano or a busload of kids explodes/catches on fire/gets run into a tank of corrosive…