My kid is turning 8 the day this movie opens, and has been looking forward to it ever since he saw a flyer about it at the last Lego convention that came to town.

My husband has been able to order single-color basic Legos in bulk from the website, so they are still around. If you're fortunate enough to live next to a Lego store, they also have loose basic bricks that you can just fill a tub with and buy in bulk.

Hey, another movie for the goth kids to mine for fashion ideas!—yeah, I went there.

It's pretty sad commentary on life that "Waist Deep In the Big Muddy" sounds just as applicable for crap going on today as it was in 1967.

Leela was always one of my all-time favorite companions. So badass yet not in the "strong female character" way that gets so overplayed nowadays.

I was thinking that too!

I meant social proximity or something like that. These guys usually have teams of publicists, stylists, administrators, etc, that follow them around and have very little direct contact with their parishioners. If you go to one of these places and have some kind of spiritual need, you're directed toward your small…

I think the way to do this right would be to have it be similar to a West-Wing-style political drama or something. I've only had cursory contact with mega churches, but if you read the blogs of people that have left it sounds like they're plagued by similar social dynamics—members are supposed to be mostly attached…

I never eat at Cracker Barrel unless I'm on a road trip—that's kind of what they're designed for.

I've been there with the androgyneous haircut as a kid thing. My dad once introduced me to one of his coworkers as his daughter (while I was wearing a pink fuzzy sweater, no less!) and she still kept referring to me as a boy. Even before that incident I was aware that I wasn't a pretty child, so shit like that did…

Back in my day, they didn't have gender-specific Happy Meal toys. They also didn't have as many "licensed" toys—mostly stuff like Hamburgler driving a cheesy little plastic car that you had to put together.

I'm a Christian and it frightens the shit out of me.

Of all things, I was hung up on Bernadette not getting Stuart's Riddler joke. Seriously? She didn't know who the Riddler was? I mean, even if she wasn't aware of the "Batman and Robin" movie, surely she watched Superfriends as kid! It's not like it was a reference to some kind of super-obscure character that only…

Well, all tropes have some basis in reality when you think about it. This just happens to be one that I find sorta condescending and, frankly, pretty sexist.

While I can understand some of those concerns, can I just request that the whole "fake nerd girls" trope be put to rest? As a former teenage girl, I can attest that we aren't that shallow, as a rule.

Exactly. In my day, my sisters and I all had a giant tub of the primary-colored generic Legos. We also didn't have pink versions of previously gender-neutral toys, like the Chatter Phone and the popcorn popper. And we liked it!

Any sex is hinted at to such an extent that it would go over most kids' heads. My kid started watching around age 5-6 (going on 8 now) and is hopelessly addicted. (Actually, we started out with my husband and I watching it on Netflix after he went to bed because I thought it might be a little too scary. Then one…

"It will be rebroadcast Saturday night for those of you who have other plans."

I was majorly let down because I pictured Nick as much more badass than Rob Freaking Lowe. Lowe does not look like someone who can hold his own in a bar fight.

I think it suffered a good bit from the expectations being to high. Lots of fans (myself included) were ready to plotz thinking "OMG another Gaiman episode is going to rock so hard!" only to have it turn out to be pretty mediocre AND have annoying kids in it. It might've been received better with a little less…