If they were better at fighting, he wouldn't need to send all those armies to constantly destroy them.

You mean how it's begging the question, assuming that recasting = "problems with the pilot" rather than "one of the cast members is a regular on SNL, and while they would have let her work on a Lorne Michaels sitcom, they're probably less okay with her missing rehearsal time to work for Fox?"

The organ donor bit is one of those Scrubs storylines that, despite the comic stuff around it, is pitch-dark at its core.  Cox's patient had an utterly understandable, relateable slip-up, and now he's probably going to die a lot sooner, and Turk has to look him in the eye and make that call.  Turk gets a few different…

The really funny thing is that the South Park episode is that the writers implicate themselves with the manatee gag.  There's no reason that the animals need to be manatees, or that manatees even need to be involved in the process.  The plot just requires some mechanism that doesn't possess human intelligence, and…

It's a pretty decent buddy-cop movie.  McCarthy and Bullock have solid rapport, only a few things obviously happen because the plot demands it, and the supporting cast is absolutely stacked- I liked that they got the Air Marshal from Bridesmaids to show up as another one of McCarthy's squeezes, and I liked the grimy…

"But is it too pedantic to wish C-3PO and R2-D2 didn’t speak in such
formal verse? They are the comic-relief characters, and should most
likely talk (or beep) in prose."

The tracheotomy bit was pretty clever plotting, too, in that it covered a script problem the writer or producers couldn't figure out how to work around:

Andrew Jackson: "A 'Secret Service?' Wouldn't they just get in the way of my cane?  I'd have to constrict my initial windup and check my follow-through, for cryin' out loud!

You have to remember that Millar's a Brit.  I'm pretty sure there's something in the EU charter that says the UK and France have to take the piss out of each other at every opportunity.

Wow, so it's essentially an entire series based around the standard sitcom premise of "if we stay in this haunted mansion overnight, we get my eccentric uncle's inheritance!  I'm sure no one will try to convince us it's really haunted by pretending to be ghosts so they get the inheritance instead!"

Melville, not Shakespeare.

Well, I've only read the book, but Jim Taggart sounds a lot like Overregulation Boy.

Xall-E

they're still trying to figure out one of the two following:
1) What the perfect prize is for someone who won with a joke about breast cancer.
2) How to deliver a cockpunch via the Post Office.

I think we broke the caption contest.

Yeah, one of the funny things about Captain Planet is that those planeteer rings are probably much more powerful than Captain Planet once you take into account their ability to be everywhere at once.

I will never stop finding that video funny.

Hmm, this David Chase fellow appears to be quite a talented writer.

You're referring to the "knees-locked-together" walk that he begins doing as he's pacing around, explaining why he can't fund Chapman's silly walk?

I didn't know Stephen Stills wrote this song.  It makes my Scott Pilgrim books a little funnier in retrospect.