(MINOR SPOILERS)

(MINOR SPOILERS)

Simon also stole the guitar part from the great English folksinger Martin Carthy.

Simon also stole the guitar part from the great English folksinger Martin Carthy.

Yeah, but "Somewhere Out There" is obviously ripped off of the second movement of Beethoven's Pathetique. What goes around…

Yeah, but "Somewhere Out There" is obviously ripped off of the second movement of Beethoven's Pathetique. What goes around…

DAMN YOU

DAMN YOU

They do another one in next week's episode!

My hydrofoil is full of eels.

Oh hey, I've read that comic — it's "Banjo Lessons" from Twisted Tales, and it's a big pile of WTF (there's also a whole subplot in it where the first version of the guy's story was about a dog, and then we found out that instead of a dog it was a black guy, and he was killed and eaten because the first three guys…

Well, this thread counts as entertainment, right?

Which one's Itchy, the car?

Yeah, I am pretty sure that is how I ended up with a doctorate in English.

I remember really loving "Dramatis Personae" when it originally aired — I guess "everyone goes nuts and tries to kill each other" alien-possession stories were more interesting to me when I was 13, although it does hold up pretty well thanks to the cast.

It's the righteous mineral that won't cop out when there's heat all about!

That actually starts happening in later episodes!

You say that like there's any other kind of Victorianist!

It will stop being the early nineties!

"The Muse" was mostly craptastic — I do agree that the Lwaxana part was surprisingly decent, because Majel Barrett and Rene Auberjonois have pretty good chemistry — but the Jake plot was pretty wretched. EXCEPT for the callback to (SPOILERS) Jake's novel from "The Visitor"; that was great.