"You ever see Hooper?"
"Yeah, that robot with the big tits!"
"No, but that sounds awesome."
"It is!"
"I meant the Burt Reynolds movie where he's a hard-living stuntman."
"That sounds awesome."
"It is."

I recently read "The Sleeping Dragon," also published in 1983.  Role-playing gamers transported into the game world where they become their characters?  Sounded awesome!

Thank you, kind sir.  I didn't remember the scene quite right, but anyway, God bless Masuka.

Apropos of nothing in this episode, but… Does anyone recall which episode it was, a few seasons ago, where Dexter narrowly escaped a crime scene just before Miami Metro's Finest descended upon it, and he looks back and sees Masuka enthusiastically propounding his theory that the victim was engaged in some kind of…

He's not just a lab tech, he's a Blood Spatter Analyst.  They pull in the big bucks, apparently.

Just, no more fucking voiceovers.

"The same thing that happens to anyone else."  —Storm

Regarding #11: I don't have an iPad, but on my iPhone, apps expand from the center of the screen when you launch them, behavior I've always assumed to be part of iOS in general.  But when Deb launches her GPS app, it scrolls up from the bottom of the screen.  What's up with that?

If it turns out that Dexter's Dark Passenger is a Dark Overlord of the Universe from "Howard the Duck," all will be forgiven.

I could hardly ever tell you who the writers are on the shows I watch, even the good ones, but I'm starting to want to remember who these Dexter writers are, so I can avoid their shit in the future.

I liked Assy McGee enough to shell out for the whole thing on Adult Swim's Build-Your-Own-DVD service, along with Drinky Crow and the Xtacles.  I almost did the same for Stroker and Hoop, but those DVDs are kind of expensive ($20 a pop), so I demurred.  Maybe someday.

I've been down to the L.A. area to audition in person twice, first from being randomly selected, and again just a couple of years later after taking the online test.  There's a pen-and-paper trivia quiz, followed by a mock game.  My first time, I washed out after taking the quiz, and didn't get to the mock game.  The…

"How much Keefe is there in this movie?"
"Miles O'Keefe!"

I would have loved to see the form Dexter filled out for the traffic-cam footage.  Since it's Miami Metro, it would presumably have fields like "Case number (optional)," "Reason for Request (optional)," "Officer in Charge (optional)," etc, and Dexter could just chuckle as he tabbed over them all.

Torrent?  Is that some kind of elemental water spell?

When she said (something like) "This [degrading job] is just for right now.  It's not forever," I wondered if most of the Dexter cast felt the same way about Dexter.

Maybe the rumored Dexter spin-off will be a retelling of the whole series from Quinn's point of view, akin to the unpublished Twilight spin-off that retells the first book from Edward's point of view.

Mega Man boss, heh.  That could only improve the show, if Dexter gained the abilities of the serial killers he kills.  Like, after he (presumably) dispatches Hannah, he'll get her poisoning skills.  I wonder, if we could have seen Dexter kill his first serial killer, we would have seen:

I feel like I can't be the first one to notice this, but: Isn't Deb kind of a poor choice for undercover work, considering she, as lieutenant, used to be on TV pretty regularly?

Is it too late to replace Quinn with Dr. Quinn from Sealab 2021?