Yeah, Daredevil is basically Marvel's version of Batman (right down to both comics having their best stories written by Frank Miller in the early '80s, before a series of efforts by former indie writers in the 00s started challenging those older stories for the title), and Affleck was a completely serviceable…

Expect to see this headline soon:  MARVIN GAYE'S FAMILY SUES R&B

One thing I'll never understand is why celebrities don't hire someone to beat up paparazzi for them and then run away.  If 1-2 people get beat up and get their cameras smashed every time a particular celebrity is swarmed with cameras, that celebrity would probably find himself less frequently bothered by the press.

My thought exactly.  A world in which celebrities have carte blanche to assault paparazzi is more entertaining, especially if all the paparazzi not being assaulted continue to take pictures of the assaults.  It would beat all the photos of celebrities getting into and out of vehicles.

@sharculese:disqus Because most people can't, and most grad programs pay you something close to a living wage for those 6 hours of teaching a week.  Some give full scholarships and include a living stipend without requiring any teaching. If you want to write while still making steady money, there are few jobs less…

@Rocketpilot:disqus Now, that…

Yeah, too bad MFA programs don't give you 2-3 years to get a ton of writing done or anything.  Well, okay, they do, but some make you teach classes for almost 6 hours per week!  No thanks, I'd rather crawl home exhausted from an 8-10 hour workday and try to pound out a few pages before bedtime in lieu of relaxing,…

She was being pretty literal with the meaning of "worth" there.

If the show never recovers from that, sure.  But has such a show ever existed?  Glee has terrible episodes about as regularly as it has excellent ones, but that's not a drop-off in quality, it's just the show being about as stable as a paranoid schizophrenic on acid.

Well, I the end of Season 3 is the show's high note, so you couldn't think of the beginning of Season 4 as a Jump the Shark moment. But those supersized season 4 episodes start to drag after a while, so if either "The Deposition" or "Dinner Party" had sucked, those could be potential jump-the-shark moments, but, um,…

Even in a season that does a great job at creating sudden moments of empathy for Michael, him breaking down crying in "The Secret" is one of the best.  He was so happy that Jim talked to him like something approaching a friend for a few seconds, and he still managed to screw it up.

"I'm starting to think that what happened to my carpet may have been an act of terrorism against this office."

Well, that's just your opinion.  Don't state it like it's a fact!

Michael's attempts at male bonding are always cringeworthy.  The Hooters thing seems to be his attempt to take Jim out to a strip club while still being plausibly able to charge it to his corporate credit card.

I also have to say I find Scott's Tots absolutely wonderful, in the worst possible way.  I actually thought Rabin's review of it was pretty insightful as to why it's not just depressing and cruel so much as an exercise in mutual self-delusion between Michael and the school administrators (who have to know, at some…

"is that really what you want?"

I don't know if any cold open has better encapsulated Michael's inability to understand social situations: he hears people laughing and immediately wants to be let in on what's obviously a private joke (proof that there's still some David Brent DNA rattling around in there), and when he hears, well, the joke Jim…

Hell, I wish they'd had the guts to do that with Andy.

*sighs* okay, I'll be that guy who points out that "Jump the Shark" doesn't refer to the first time a show makes a misstep, but rather to the point where a show, having gone downhill for a long time, finally does something so egregiously bad that even its most ardent defenders throw their hands up in disgust.  Look at…

Best deleted scene for "The Secret:"  Michael tries out an executive putting machine, with Dwight providing color commentary (Michael: "Alright, now up, Jack Nicholson."  Dwight: "Jack Nickalus."  Michael: *pauses* "It's a celebrity tournament.") Trying to retrieve Michael's ball from under a filing cabinet, Dwight…