PSYCHOPOLE is evolving!
PSYCHOPOLE evolved into HYPNOTOAD!

Kind-of wish that could have played out a bit longer, though (e.g. for most of the time between the first and second commercial breaks). It all could have used a bit of room to breathe, the way "Farnsworth Parabox" takes its time building up to the many-boxes setpiece, giving us a series of vignettes as the…

It's going to be a bumpy ride through the CC episodes, but there really are gems in there, so it's worth watching all of it at least once.

My personal fanwank: when all the Benders wait in the basement and pop out at the very end, they all start blowing up until only the original Bender is left (and tear a hole in the universe in the process, natch). At that point, Lars also got unmade and never existed and therefore the whole narwhal thing didn't…

"You're the most important thing in my life after this game finishes," was a pretty great line to put her character into focus.

You see, sober me never would've started this discussion, because there's no good way out of it. You know what? Just believe the worst thing you can of me. You may not be correct, but you probably are right.

Sorry, I didn't mean "strong". I meant something along the lines of "rigid". And I don't mean that these are actually masculine traits, either. I just mean that they're more commonly associated with masculinity by your average TV writer. I think a Doctor Who that tackled a female character who shared these qualities…

There's nothing distinctly "male" about the Doctor, but there are several traits (a kind of recklessness, arrogance, impatience, a tinkerer's impulse, a strong moral code) that are sometimes considered quite "masculine" and that are shared among the previous eleven iterations. You could make the Doctor female, but I…

Also see Martha Jones' cousin in the finale to S2.

And also the third book, in which "Beligum" is revealed to be the single most insulting curse word in the galaxy.

It puts me in mind of the first Hitchhiker's book, in which Zaphod steals the Heart of Gold during its launch from the planet(?) France.

It's a Freudian whip; like when you say one thing but actually mean your mother.

You didn't quite have me until you included Girls on your list. I can see reactions to a lot of these female characters being driven by the observation that the male writers were turning these characters into killjoys and humorless scolds, but that last example is a lot more loaded than the others.

My facebook feed has absolutely no one talking about this because no one in my social circle cares about either Doctor Who or The Thick of It.

Is there an option for brain implants, or is it just for devices that currently exist?

It really isn't a very good example, but how many opportunities do we ever get to use the word in conversation? (Chrome put a red squiggly line under the word as I was typing it.)

I would presume something along the lines of "blow up [commonplace misconceptions derived from] pornography." It's a bit of metonymy, using "pornography" to stand in for all of the culture and attitudes surrounding the subject.

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But the extra "u" can add a bit of colour to some words. Just not all wourds.

In fairness, none of those guys were too keen on gay men in the military. Or in public life, for that matter.