I recommend NoScript in Firefox - I use it, and I've never seen the Delocated ads.

I'm not proud of it, but even knowing it's not very good, I'm still definitely going to see this. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law as Holmes and Watson doing their hostile flirting thing, with bonus Stephen Fry? I can't help myself.

Awesome write-up, Todd. But man, the funniest part is probably that terrifying Will screencap. I almost never actually hate TV characters, but something about Will just pisses me off *so much.*

I guess it's possible, but what makes it seem like a deliberate thing to me was *how long* the sequence of the elf deciding went on. It lasted at least twice, maybe three times as long as the other bits with toys being quickly handled umbrellas.

I think how people react to this episode probably has everything to do with how invested they are in Leslie/Ben as a couple - people who love them together really loved it, and people like me who just think they're kind of okay are a lot more lukewarm.

I'm surprised that people thought it was all that much of a twist, personally - the show's been pretty careful over the last seven years not to reveal too much about Robin and Barney's life circumstances in the future, so that they'd suddenly decide to reveal all in a random mid-season non-sweeps episode was pretty…

Yeah, he pinged my gaydar before he even spoke. It was really a poor choice on his part to say the words, "I'm *obsessed* with bananas!"

My favorite little-noticed bit in Rudolph: at the end, when the elves are dropping the toys out of the sleigh with umbrellas. The elf holds up the bird that swims instead of flying, looks at it, looks at the umbrella, looks back at it…and just drops the bird. No way the animators didn't do that on purpose.

Now if only the BBC would announce when Sherlock returns.

Bad move for your ratings, Academy - America loves a train wreck.

Another option: if you use a Javascript blocker (such as NoScript on Firefox), you can set it so that it allows only script from certain sites to operate. So, anything associated with avclub.com: allowed, anything from pop-up site: auto-blocked.

Real question: how do you guys select the 'top pick?' It can't be what you're actually recommending we watch, as I'm pretty sure House hasn't been anyone's top pick of shows in a minimum of two years, and that's including everyone who works on House.

Wait, wait - you're saying 'Where's Waldo?' had actual words in it? I was genuinely completely unaware of that.

I don't know which episode it was, but that's pretty much the way I first watched Wonder Showzen - I was flipping through the channels, stopped on MTV2 for some reason (baffled by the puppets, I guess?) on some show I'd never even heard of and just had my mind kind of blown by it all. Probably one of my most enjoyable…

Hah, true. If there's a quarry within driving distance and they can scavenge some trash cans and a plunger, they can definitely make a retro Who episode!

And, like Magneto's helmet, it will make Jeff immune to telepathy, which will be useful when Evil Troy and Evil Abed come over from the other universe, because like in Troy's story, they will have gotten mind powers when they sewed themselves together. IT ALL TIES TOGETHER.

Well, I don't know for sure? But comparing the CGI in last week's big Halloween episode to what it must cost for any random Who episode's effects, I'd have to assume Doctor Who costs more. Plus, Community's a chronically low-rated sitcom on a hapless last place network, and Doctor Who's probably the flagship program…

Even if they weren't officially divorced, I could see Pierce's mom wanting to avoid the guy - from what little we know of her (mostly in 'The Psychology of Letting Go') she seemed pretty sweet and rational.

I'd totally watch that, though Community probably doesn't have Who's CGI/effects budget. Hell, just the sheer number of eye-patches they'd need would probably max them out.

All of Goodman's scenes made me think the character is the live action version of Futurama's Robot Santa, and that's pretty awesome.