My rick santorummed her bachmann. "Put your palin my mitt," she moaned, as I romneyed the newts along her gingrich. "Did my herman cain your huntsman?" I asked tenderly as we finished. "Pawlenty," she purred.

Damn that record deal!
What a bad contract.
Don't get upset.
One day you might just get it back.

The end of the first episode of The Shield strikes me as an Original Sin from which the show never fully recovers. Afterward it seems that the show bends over backwards to make Mackey seem like someone who wouldn't do something like that, without ever providing an adequate explanation for why he did do that. Which…

What if it goes out like Battlestar? That would be frakkin' sad.

John Lithgow?
"Franco rescues the infant Caesar from destruction and brings him home to the Alzheimer's-afflicted father (John Lithgow)"

"The producers still like you and your film career isn't taking off. Return to high school for your fifth consecutive junior year"

Muslims aren't necessarily evil. Unfortunately, *muslin* is intrinsically evil, and people sometimes get the two confused: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Heinrich Himmler…
…was a chicken farmer. Maybe Morrissey has some way of knowing that the world's chicken population wasn't infected with the seed of Nazi ideology in the 1920s and hasn't been waiting for the opportunity to establish the Fourth Reich once they're released en masse from factory farms, but I'm not…

Basing my opinions solely on Animal Man and Doom Patrol, I'd say that Morrison is averse to conflict generally. He's more inclined to have a character carry a monkey through several pages of white nothingness than to have characters solve moral and philosophical disputes through fistfights. The way he portrayed the…

Jimmy Stewart's character in Rear Window was a photographer who solves a crime; Peter Parker ends up becoming a photographer/crime-fighter. Presumably, someone involved in the new movie assumed that everyone does or should express important elements of their identity through movie posters.

I'm torn between seasons one and four. I bought the first season for my future wife on a whim before the show turned big (I think it was between seasons two and three), so we watched it with no expectations, but were blown away by the "fuck" scene. Season Four was the first one we watched live, with a group of…

Another similarity between the season finale and The Wire's series finale: The bookending of a montage with scenes of the main character interacting with someone who may or may not be able to understand what he's trying to say or even be listening (not that McNulty had too much to say to his passenger, but, still…). …

@Space Pope: The question of whether or not Jefferson slept with Hemings is far more open to debate than is usually portrayed in the media (circumstantial evidence suggests it, but DNA can only show that a male member of Jefferson's family fathered her children, which has been generally accepted for about two hundred…

"Goofball Weirdness"
I could be wrong, and I don't remember how it's played in the show, but I assume that the case involving "a local drug dealer, whose dead, bullet-riddled body has been found lying on the floor of his living room, with the dying, bullet-riddled body of another man lying under him" was based on an…

One thing I would suggest is that Dana Carvey was a big fish in a much smaller pond in 1992, in two ways. One is that there were simply less notable comedians in the mainstream at the time, and the mainstream only offered a few vehicles—four (barely) networks, and movies which almost invariably needed to be spawned…

@TLTFTS: I like your post, but I disagree with the assessment of Albert, and I would argue the opposite—it's his son who is embracing new perspectives while Albert remains stubbornly fixed in his ways. Albert's mulishness has its upsides, like when it keeps tradition alive, but it also blocks him off from things he…

If you're really into The Wire, you should watch the whole series—in some parts, Homicide plays like a first draft of The Wire, using some of the same scenes (like the one where Baldwin wonders whether he should pick up the phone when it's Kay's turn, because she's batting a thousand, so the call might be a slam dunk)…

Wasn't their a recurring administrative assistant who didn't do much except write names on the board?

I got the sense that he was troubled by the bribe. Obviously, he's not the most skillful of actors, but the impression I took away from the scene was him thinking, "Did he really just leave an envelope of money on my desk? And what did he mean about some city officials not caring about what was best for the city?" …

Wow, DrDzoe, I had the opposite reaction on the Ladonna thread. I find the whole story line fascinating because I've seen a constant struggle between Ladonna's husband trying to do what he thinks a husband should do while Ladonna has been trying to do things for herself, both to avoid any sort of confrontation with…