See, that's why this structure is really amazing. For episode after episode you're wondering why GOB just sort of sits there and says nothing, and then when you see it from his perspective that running joke sort of makes it clear that something utterly terrible has just happened to him right before every scene.

Archer, Always Sunny and Curb aren't mainstream. They're successful, but there's a reason they're all off on cable. Comedy nerds like them, but they're no Chuck Lorre Industrial Complex.

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George Sr.'s crossdressing was because of the plant he and Oscar chewed. John Slattery explained that it messes with your endocrine system. He spent a year doing it and basically living like a fancy princess, drinking lemonade and getting rich while Oscar spent a year in…

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The Russos left Community after Season 3 and they've left TV entirely to try and break into movies again.

Hurwitz pretty much copped to botching the edit on twitter before it was released.

The "Sales Expectations" thing is p. much definitely Square trying to hide the flagging Japanese end of the company, which keeps dumping way too much money into stuff like Final Fantasy.

One of my friends IRL mentioned it. Apparently it's just a one scene promo.

As has almost definitely been pointed out, McGann has a cameo coming up. He shot some footage to promote the 50th that's almost certainly him regenerating into Hurt.

Los Perdidos are Cordelia. Anna is France. Remember, at the end she "takes up" with the leader of the revolutionaries trying to restore rightful government.

Ugh. Phil Fish. 

As for the producer problem, here's what happened: Piers Wenger and Beth Willis were the executive producers that were actually in charge of the day to day logistics. Moffat is more on the creative end. Anyway, Wenger and Willis fired the producers and picked up cheaper people. This led to budget overruns because the…

We don't have numbers, Or even hard information. We know there are cuts, Moffat's even talked about it (http://www.digitalspy.ca/br… but there are no hard numbers. It's to do with, amongst other things, the fact that the license fee is frozen and is now being split between more agencies. After the Lonely Planet flap…

Pretty much every episode this series has too much crammed in. I think Moffat is doing a bit of slight of hand to distract from the fact that production troubles mean that bifurcated series are the new normal.

Actually, Gallifreyans are remarkably moribund in their aesthetics. It's all ceremonial headresses and robes, and it's the kind of culture where acetic hermits are actually fairly common. It's all silken pomp on one end and academic austerity on the other.

Moffat's always been incredibly good at papering over holes left in the show by budget or backroom politics. Most people haven't even cottoned to the fact that the production's been a shambles for years thanks to producer incompetence and budget cuts at the BBC in the face of a hostile parliament.

Arguably, huge chunks of the Time War actually did play out onscreen. The Timelords, after all, did try to unhappen the Daleks way back in the seventies. Fanon (ick) holds that that's when it started, since it's an act of war using Time Travel.

The TARDIS has a huge number of bizarre rooms. The Fifth Doctor's got his costume when, wandering the TARDIS in an incoherent daze (his regeneration was especially rough since, at that point, he was considered the fourteenth Doctor by the writers) when he found a set of cricket whites just sitting in the hallway…

Wasn't that the original premise, that every season would feature a different set of, well, Heroes?

Every episode is an episode closer to Richard 'firing' Anna.

One thing that bothers me about the movie, and the theorists, is that they often take what might be a very useful insight about a theme or method, and then take it to someplace where they want to make a really direct 1:1 allegorical reading.