(Phipps: And why are you even in Chicago?

I also like how in the second one The Grey makes the list, and then the full article informs me that they attempted to market it to Christian groups.

No! Our precious VAG!

Heller: Hey, Keith, I finished the Hole book.

Jhiera, The Anointed One, Riley…

It did feel like cheating, but at least having Spike around in Angel S5, being a dick to Angel instead of getting mired in Buffy-crush plots, was a great rehabilitation for the character.

In season one I mostly remember her from being pushed down the stairs by the invisible girl. But even then it was only in retrospect. I didn't even know she had a name and a legitimate history on the show until she showed up as a vampire.

Uh, you know what people actually go to an ATM kiosk for, right?

They all had to charge their phones, at once, using the guy's multi-charger in his car, and then no one thought to grab their phone when they stopped at the ATM.

This November, exercise your constitutional right… to die.

What's more, she also has Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, who is more valuable than any bauble.

Leibniz and Newton both did it, but not with each other.

I'll admit Comics Panel 2: Noel and Ollie at the 1893 World's Fair was a crass cash-in, but I still can't get that theme song out of my head.

And did he?

I dreamt that every website I tried to access redirected me to some fakey spam site. I kept telling my coworkers there was a DNS issue or a malware infection, but they just laughed at me for being bad at the internet.

Oh, sad! I watched the DVDs and the opera house fight was possibly the best fight scene of the entire series.

Thank you, everyone, for all the suggestions! You are each one of you the illest. I'll poke around at a number of those.

Speaking of Vampire Diaries, I just finished Angel recently and was looking for another long-term series. I know people are saying TVD is actually good these days, but if I'm looking for another Angel, will I be disappointed? How should I adjust my expectations?

Mike Nelson! Still probably the best of all of them, though that could be because his humor's generally nonpolitical.

Brake 2: Elec Booga