Yeah, but who doesn't?

@avclub-6e3b2cb658a36cff9d66c3371c46c4a6:disqus I've always felt that Michael Keaton came far closer to ruining that movie than Keanu did. (He didn't actually ruin the movie. But he was a lot less watchable.)

I have a doctorate in Renaissance literature and this episode actually annoys the crap out of me — not because I'm overly reverent about Shakespeare, but more because he's not actually a good example of the sort of figure of "Authorship" that the episode needs in order to work.

Okay, so I know the point of "The Bard" is that the constraints of network TV suck, which is a perfectly fair point. But I've always been kind of annoyed by its depiction of authorship, because the Elizabethan theater was a business too. Playwrights frequently had to deal with interference from a higher authority — in…

I was exactly 20 and in college when it started.

What makes a man turn neutral? Was it lust for gold? Power? Or was he just born with a heart full of neutrality?

Why wouldn't anybody build Hedonismbot?

I'm a doctor! Not a medical doctor though.

That's very important!

How did he see the ending if he walked away during the episode?

He's getting a pretty good sound outta that guy!

Awwwwww! Two!

And you should all follow him on twitter. It is glorious.

Fun fact: while Shakespeare takes plenty of liberties in his history plays (like everyone, ever, who's written historical drama), he actually hews closer to his source material (which is, itself, not always reliable, but modern historiography wasn't invented yet) than pretty much anyone else writing in the genre at…

Simpsons did it. (no, really, it was a couch gag)

A superhero drug you can just rub in? You'd think it'd be something you have to freebase!

And "dddddddrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriddled."

@avclub-0a7d7a81e8e3a20e4c34748e98ef45f6:disqus Well, a lot of self-proclaimed "nice guys" really aren't especially nice, certainly not "kind and caring," because once a woman makes it clear that he's not actually dating material a lot of them turn into straight-up assholes (seriously, the idea of the "friendzone" is…

I love how eager the Professor is to eat him after he thinks he died going over the waterfall.

"I Dated a Robot" is definitely my least favorite — preaching about digital piracy plus a late-Simpsons-style handling of the guest star equals not a very fun episode — but I do love the propaganda film. And didn't it introduce the Space Pope?