I dunno, something about her look made it seem like she realized that Barney was attempting to maximize his potential future happiness by pursuing a series of low-success scenarios with essentially zero cost, under the impression that repeated iteration of this strategy would lead to a sufficient output of desirable…

And Lily's "Awww" right before blowing away everybody but Barney and Ted's mom.

Alan did write another one. He said it was just a "discussion piece," but it ended up being as long as his regular recaps. Also, his regular recaps of this show have been weak for a while now, and seem grounded in assumptions that he's not willing to move away from- at least 60% of his recaps before this season…

"I'll build a glass tower and melt you!"

Yeah, he would get angry, but he always had a shouty, emotive, I'm-yelling-really-loud-so-you-don't-make-me-try-to-back-it-up manner. In this episode, he would lower his voice to a growl and start enunciating everything just a little bit more, and would also put on his Heisenberg Face (I call it that because he makes…

Wait, Cristin Milioti ISN'T a total knockout? Because this is just one man's opinion, but if she started talking to me, the only thing that would come out of my mouth would be the partially-liquefied remnants of my brain. Which would probably lead to me losing consciousness, I don't know, I'm not a neuroscientist.

He was really playing up the Heisenberg-esque facial expressions in this episode, but the way he was switching between that and desperate friendly neediness was pretty great.

I haven't seen the episode, but I was wondering if anybody knew this: has this TV show ever used "The Waiting" by Tom Petty in any of its episodes? Because if not, that feels like a missed opportunity.

Really? First time I heard the term, it was part of a Chris Rock standup bit. Considering the bit also includes the line "there is nothing more crazy, more out of control, more likely to embarrass you in a fucking restaurant, than a woman who knows you ain't gonna hit her," I'd say it's never been exclusive to…

Thor rode Sleipnir in the first movie, so he at least has the weirdest one.

His hammer was confused by the multidimensional gates and was somewhere in the ionosphere at that point.

The big universe-killing machine is only on Earth for 7 minutes, and it's across the Atlantic from the others. Apparently the Iron Man suit and SHIELD helicarriers aren't quite that fast.

Continuity error: No one has thought to call Loki a horse-fucker yet.

Yeah, those mini-portals transformed the Big Final Battle into an engaging and inventive setpiece. A bunch of British cars landing on a nameless, impossibly distant world was one of the funnier moments of a pretty funny movie.

"As astoundingly beautiful as Portman and Hemsworth are, I have no idea why the characters are in True Love, or would pine for two years, or give up a throne. What the hell do they see in each other?"

We don't know how big Thanos's hands are in this continuity.

On the other hand, I think this movie might have counted as one of them. But I like that Chris Evans really, really wants to be a superhero, so much that this is his second go at it.

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I don't get this. Is Payne's new movie an adaptation of The World According to Garp or something?

Yes, it's better than the first. The action scenes, especially the last one, uses physical space and surrounding debris in a way that I've never really seen a big-budget movie do, and the result is way more fun than you expect a big climactic battle to be.