I was pretty happy to see them and their hippie retirement plan. Even if it was heavy-handed, it's nice to have someone point out the constant violence that other characters live by yet don't seem to mention.

Constantly yelling "CHAAAAH-LEE!! is the verbal equivalent of waving a gun around. I should have clarified that. Really though, he's made it this far without resorting to violence (except with vans).

No, it would be far too sad. I'm thinking the numerous appearances are just to help the audience cope with the time-travel and related weirdness.

Hurley is one of the few characters that doesn't start waving guns around at the drop of a hat. That automatically makes him lovable, or at least likable.

I love the bugeyed look that Ben uses when he's convincing someone that he's telling the truth/knows more than they do, and they inevitably agree. I think it may be a form of creepy hypnotism.

Ben is an Olympic-class liar, so I wouldn't be surprised if he isn't still playing Locke somehow. I have a hard time imagining the man actually being stupefied by something on the Island.

Could be worse, my first thought was Nixon. Despite knowing otherwise, my brain just sort of assumes he and JFK were the only two presidents between 1960 and 1980.

Forget Eloise, soaking-wet Sayid was the distraction in that scene. The Island won't kill him because he is too attractive to die.

The writers may be starting to agree with the audience about Kate; or at least it seems that way. There was her mini-tantrum over the Others not wanting her to leave, basically coming right out and saying she doesn't give a damn about the Island's mysteries. And then her sheepish appearance on the sub just after…

It's one of those gags that will stay with me forever, I know it. From now until I die, any cheese eaten after 8:00 pm will be accompanied by that song in my head.

I've seen an awesome French animated short about a man who turns into a woman, mostly just following the day-to-day discoveries of her new life and what she/he makes of it. It's the best take on the gender-swapping story that I've seen (or at least the most charming). Can't remember the name of the guy who made it,…

I gotta say, I'm at least happy to see someone with mother issues for a change.

Maybe the individual parts on the Julia Roberts are all accurate, but somehow their whole looks like it should be wearing coke-bottle glasses and hunched behind a desk in AP Calculus. Possibly while drawing fairies in her notebook.

Mary Ann is the only one I can remember out of them all because her life made me sad, even as a kid.

I'm just happy to see her get a mention, I read and re-read and re-re-read those books as a kid. Her worlds blended fantasy and the mundane in great way long before Harry Potter came around, and weird little details stick with me to this day. I will definitely make sure she's on my future offspring's bookshelf.

The train sequence oddly is where the movie always starts to lose me. It feels like the point where it starts stretching on too long, and the "find Yubaba's sister" task comes off as an arbitrary detour tacked on to the list of challenges that Chihiro has to face.

Aside from comic relief, I like Hurley a lot because he's one of the only characters that is completely straightforward and even blunt. I was extremely happy when he figured out that Miles could talk to dead people, and just matter-of-factly told him he could too. Same with transparently trying to get Miles to talk…

I dunno, it's both a reference to a place of miracles and sounds like "lords" when said out loud (I think). If you want your kid to have a healthy ego, that's the way to go. Max Power eat your heart out.

I think Tommy Lee Jones is the go-to guy for playing grizzled, cynical law enforcement agents partnered with plucky young women. I submit Double Jeopardy and Man of the House as evidence.

Is hard liquor sold in any kind of store in Illinois? I spent a few seconds imagining the AV Club writers doing their lunchtime shopping at the liquor store, but obviously booze in Chicago is just more freely available than it is in hereabouts.