I've kept a number of pet rats and given most of them little burials like we saw Charlie do, so that scene elicited quite an "Awwwww!" from me.  Tame rats are really very sweet little creatures.

Not to toot my own horn, but I immediately got the Element Lad reference as soon as the word "legion" was mentioned.

@avclub-13d7df3c17502af69aafccc758195f96:disqus There was a two-issue comic series published ca. 1990 called "The World's Worst Comic Awards."  One sequence featured the villainous character "Nekra":

I'm sure it's been talked about often before, but it never fails to annoy me that security devices on Trek can be effortlessly bypassed by anyone who knows how to press the right five buttons in the right order.

I wonder if anyone had to egg Nog on.

"White! …Except for the gloves."  — Margo, The Critic

The Battle Moon is clearly based on D&D's ioun stones, which in turn were based on the IOUN stones created by the sadly-recently-late Jack Vance.  adjusts glasses

First Law of Robotics not included!

Serial Apeist 2: Rapier Ape

I wish there had been some scrolling text before that lumberjacking scene, with verbiage similar to that at the start of Stephen King's epilogue to "The Dark Tower," to the effect of: "The story's over and done.  If you're not satisfied, here's a little more, but you may well regret it…"

The actress who played the babysitter is now on Orphan Black, which is just about the polar opposite of Dexter quality-wise.

Next time write the review in a text editor (which will ask for confirmation should you accidentally close or quit) and then copy-and-paste it over to your browser.

I was all set to quit after season 6, but then Deb walked in on Dexter's kill and I thought "Well shit, I gotta see how this turns out."  I might have quit after season 7, but upon learning that 8 would be the final season I figured I might as well hang in there to the end.

The final villain should have been Dexter himself, goddammit.

I think the groanworthiest moment in the episode was when Harrison whispered to Dexter "You know what, Daddy?  I love Hannah!"

FARTLY REAMING FEXTER

But it did result in what I consider one of the funniest AV Club comments ever made about Dexter:
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a.k.a. "TitCoin."

"Fine, Odo!  Rom and I will start our own resistance!  With dabo!  And hookers!  In fact, forget the resistance!"

I liked how Vogel's computer makes Atari 2600 Pac-Man noises as it deletes files.