Radio Bart, flaming Moe's, and Homer at the Bat are all top-notch, although I'll acknowledge that Homer At the Bat seems a little stunt-cast-y these days. It's hard to contrast with one's own memory, but the whole guest-star thing felt fresher and not nearly so played out back then as it does now.

yeah, The Hatchet was a pretty damn good book. One of my favorites for a year or two. the sequel was kinda lame, IMO, but the original kicked ass, at least for a boy around the same age as the protagonist in the book. Hell, I wasn't even a boy scout, and have absolutely NO survival skills of note, and even I thought…

There's a wide variation in LD picture quality, both in the way that they were re-mastered as fat lizzy mentions. and the way they were recorded to the disc. Popular action and Sci-fi movies were often released in multiple formats, with signifigant differences in qualify. generally speaking, if you see a movie that…

So your interpretation is that Anakin did die when he became Vader, and then his soul was redeemed when Vader saved Luke? I hadn't thought of it quite that way, but that's a good interpretation. The way I see it, Anakin didn't die, even if Obi-Wan describes it that way in Star Wars (he had no reason to believe that…

I've got Caravan of courage, burned onto a DVD by someone on EBAY. sadly, they managed to edit out most of the commercials, which surely would've outshined the feature itself.

I've still got a ton of mini-discs, as well as a couple of mini-disk players, both portable and for the home. Sadly I dropped my mini-disk car stereo while moving a bunch of stuff in the garage a year ago, so that's dead now. I hadn't used them for about 2 years anyway, ever since I got a new car stereo that plays…

wait, how does Hayden Christensen's portrayal of Anakin's force ghost mean that there was no good in Vader? I get the complaint that it's jarring to see Hayden there instead of they guy we were all used to, or that it's not necessary to retcon yet another aspect of the original movies to dovetail with the prequels.…

Yeah, they definitely should've made it a rigelian cobra bite or something like that. or perhaps a prick from a distant relative to the poisonous plant from "Shades of Gray".

Ok, I'm not buying the idea that Data's seemingly emotional behavior is the result of processing confusion. The decision to kill the guy from "The Most Toys" (and then to lie about it as well), is pretty damn straightforward. sure, you could make the argument that he's shooting to protect the greater good, but that…

OK, Zeek's technically right, but would it be so hard to wait 15 minutes to crack open that beer? especially given that Adam's so worried about Haddie? he could've held off for a bit, if only to humor Adam.

you're absolutely right about Jasmine here - she's the one who took off her engagement ring. I say if you do that, and you get what you're asking for, you can't be 100% blameless. It doesn't absolve Crosby from the fact that he really screwed the pooch sleeping with Minka Kelly, but you have to admit she put him in…

ToddG makes a good point above, regarding the difference between exhibiting emotions artificially and actually "feeling" them. But there are several examples of his emotional behaviors that really don't seem to be necessary at all in a practical sense, the way seeming confused when performing an inconclusive sensor…

Duffman's OK, but the yesssss guy is just to the wrong side of the funny/simply annoying divide.

I think the key was that the guy didn't come inside the door to Crosby's boat. Technically, he was ON the boat, not IN the boat. The doorway makes a big difference, legally speaking. It's like the difference between being on someone's front porch and in their living room.

Bioshen beat me to the punch, but I'd absolutely love to see a review of You Can't Do That on Television. let's just say that it was post-modern and subversive or some shit like that, and it's a perfectly good candidate for a AV Club article. the only problem is that it's not (officially) available on DVD, so I'm not…

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth…
Oscar bloggers might be obnoxious, but it really could be quite a bit worse. just look at NFL mock draft bloggers. or worse, fantasy football bloggers. It really doesn't get more over-analyzed than that. I used to follow the draft obsessively, up until about 4 years ago. That year…

I'm holding out hope that the Rabin's just biding his time 'til he gets to the really good stuff, and he'll throw himself into those reviews with renewed vigor. That said, I thought we might be to that point by now. looking ahead to some of the upcoming episodes, if we're not there soon I don't think we're getting…

There was also an episode or two about zombies in Clone Wars. traumitized my kid for about a year.

In Sims' defense, she looks remarkably like Sherry Stringfield, hair color aside. A couple shades blonder and she's a dead ringer.

I think I'll go with season 5 as the better than season 4
I know some of the later seasons got a little too wacky and all that, but to me what we've been missing up until this point is some of the really over the top dialogue. For example, hand model monologue from the same episode: