Mason & Dixon could also be a good HBO series. Probably the costumes from John Adams are even in storage somewhere.

If I directed a version of Gravity's Rainbow, it would open with a Looney-Toons-style short about a mad dutchman slaughtering dodos.

Surprised nobody else has mentioned this, but the meat he feeds everyone this episode? Abigail knows what human tastes like—her dad was feeding her his victims—and Hannibal knows she knows. Look at her face after she takes the first bite.

@avclub-a1967e6de4ca99fb2635d94b99453928:disqus There was a newswire that also mentioned Hannibal leaving nothing behind from his kills, so maybe I have this wrong, but isn't that GJ Hobbes' thing? It seems like Hannibal leaves behind everything except the groceries, and flamboyantly displayed at that.

Nobody ever picks Esmerelda because her movie's no good (also, not actually a princess), but come on! Feisty, independent gypsies are the  best, with their wild gypsy hair and green gypsy eyes. Plus she's got some Catholic guilt issues, If I'm remembering right. Total package.

I had Milton Glaser's Dylan poster (original, framed), and usually some recent work for drawing class. Which now sounds so snobbish that I wish I'd thrown in the one where the two girls kiss in black and white, or maybe a blacklight yin/yang.

There's at least one place Manhattan in where the bartenders wear lab coats.

There's at least one place Manhattan in where the bartenders wear lab coats.

When was the last time you checked out the New York Times style section? Literally any given week it will contain a story much more trivial and bogus than this one. I even remember one about how "four thirty-something dude friends have charming tradition", but I'm not going to try to dig it up right now.

When was the last time you checked out the New York Times style section? Literally any given week it will contain a story much more trivial and bogus than this one. I even remember one about how "four thirty-something dude friends have charming tradition", but I'm not going to try to dig it up right now.

Considering there's gravity on every spacecraft of any size in Star Wars, exact mechanics probably weren't a big concern, but if I can just get my nerd glasses out of storage here….

No idea if this is the actual explanation, but doesn't the Death Star have gravity, being moon-sized? If the explosive was using technology anything like the other hover vehicles we see, probably it would float a certain height above the surface but drop inside any large opening it passed over.

It's "Bye Bye Birdie"—I believe there's a number involving the Shriners.

The Force will never be over! It will always live in our minds, and hearts. Something that was this big, and this important, and this great, will never die. Oh for a few years, maybe many years it will be considered passé and ridiculous. It will be misrepresented, caricatured and sneered at, or worse, completely…

The Force will never be over! It will always live in our minds, and hearts. Something that was this big, and this important, and this great, will never die. Oh for a few years, maybe many years it will be considered passé and ridiculous. It will be misrepresented, caricatured and sneered at, or worse, completely…

I'm not sure what puns you're eluding to.

It's tempting to paint the man with broad strokes, but let's try to keep things in perspective.

Is there a necklace in Lord of the Flies? I thought it was a reference to the ear necklace in Blood Meridian.

Huh. I think I got my copy for about $10 on half.com a while back, but maybe I was just lucky. Didn't get much out of it that I didn't get from the movie, but it's a good one to have on the shelf.

I OSCARBAIT EVERY TIME I SEE KIERA KNIGHTLEY