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*See Also: every time Bill Simmons starts talking about David Ortiz, Larry Bird, Bill Russell, and/or Tom Brady.

Cribbing a line from the Doctor, whenever someone says "This is such a
clever plan", it's usually followed by a lot of screaming and fire. That steeple falling down was the culmination of a very bad idea predicated on an even worse execution.

Thus the prophesy be fulfilled, thanks be to Lucille.

Your neighbor's mom is a dirty liar, and that McLaren F1 is just a Honda Civic that says "Lauren" on the busted windshield.

Nah, this cover version sucks. Spandau Ballet's original was way better.

Now now, Kopi Luwak isn't that bad.

Well that escalated quickly.

Are you on meth?

OK for real? Dude stole from Thomas Ligotti, and no matter what David Haglund says, the facts are the facts. There's a difference between Influenced and Lifting dialogue and themes from another writer. Season 2 showed just how awful Pizzolatto was at plotting something "original". Seeing how the more I hear how

With Alan Ball adding the latent self-hatred!

It's so tough to write something original, as Nic found out in the second season; what makes it even worse is that there's a metric shit tonne that he could've cribbed from. Instead of an obscure Southern Gothic detective novel, Pizzolatto had a wealth of stuff to steal from- that's just laziness right there that

Ha ha, you want to see Spectre

Blade Runner: The Final Cut For Real This Time You Guys Srsly

Twometheus: 2 Big 2 Black 2 Live

Promethei 2: Electric Boogaloo

Shouldn't it have been Prometheuseses?

Kind of like when Christoph Waltz swore up and down that he wasn't Blofeld, when he actually was Blofeld.

More like a rich man's Bunraku.

/Waiting to post until 4:30 PM EST

Chuck Klosterman already wrote a pretty definitive account of the whole thing- it's almost as if Russell finally got around to his book club reading list and said "What the shit?!? I gotta tell MY side (again)".