RDJ was brilliant in Tropic Thunder, but he had the misfortune to give a brilliant performance in a year where a beloved actor happened to die. I quite liked Ledger, I'm sorry to see him gone, but nothing about the Dark Knight warrants a non-technical award Oscar.

I wish there was a live feed of the Nielson ratings for this disaster somewhere, preferably superimposed on the bottom of the screen like a stock ticker. The crash must be a thing to see.

This may be the first TV Club piece ever with which I've found nothing to disagree. I'm deeply concerned about moving such an oddball genius into such a whitebread time slot, and in some ways even more concerned about moving an east coast guy out to the soul-crushing horror that is LA.

The only reason it was interesting is because they were finally revealing things. Try watching after the end of the show's run, it'll bore you to tears.

I'm glad someone else saw this episode that way. "Oh, we've backed ourselves into a narrative corner by failing to plot out the developments of the show at the beginning, we'll fix it with a giant ball of exposition." The first rule of good writing is show, don't tell. In that respect this was a train wreck. The only…

I liked everything on the block before Tom Goes to the Mayor, which was the first genuinely unwatchable thing they introduced and the harbinger of the end. Space Ghost, Brak, Harvey, old Aqua Teen, Sea Lab, these were great shows. Robot Chicken is alright (though they do best lampooning Star Wars), Venture is…

It's not the absolute worst, that honor goes to Tim and Eric. I'd say it's more like Squidbillies > Xavier > T&EASGJ but they're all pretty terrible. With the new inclusion of King of the Hill and the PJ's I find my tolerance for Adult Swim has dropped to an all time low. I used to watch it every night back in the old…

Sadly, as this generation has proven, people are absolutely in love with technology for the sake of appearances rather than function. The book may well die as a result of the fact that it's not as "hip" as devices like this, despite the fundamental disadvantages.

Did anyone else…
…get shades of Delenn's "he is behind me, you are in front of me" speech from B5 when Roslin was threatening the mutineers?

Sausage balls are the nectar of the gods.

Um, no. That would be the most insanely narratively lazy thing they could do.

Hey look, it's a Lost fan that's incapable of appreciating a show that actually has a sense of its own absurdity and an arc that's actually going somewhere. I'm shocked!

Only if your definition of "musical" is so preposterously broad as to be meaningless.

surprising
Considering how often I disagree with individual and consensus opinions here at the AV Club, it's a bit of a shock that Donna's the only one whose sacred cow I'd cheerfully slaughter and turn into delicious cheeseburgers.

Bless you Dave Chang. Your willingness to put both your physical and psychological well-being on the line for the entertainment of (non-paying) strangers is an inspiration to us all. You should have your own TV show: "Dave Chang Eats Weird Shit."

"I'm looking at you, In Soviet Russia joke! "

For what it's worth, you're not alone on this one.

It was MUCH better before it was cancelled.

And here I thought I'd married the only other E.T. hater on Earth.

No, there's a world of humorless gits like you out there, Family Guy dedicated an entire episode to putting as many of you as possible on screen in fact.