It's actually a scholar's mate. Wikipedia articles here:

Shouldn't Try to Emulate?
I assume Renee Zellweger is someone nominees shouldn't try to emulate? (The article says "should.") I found her acceptance speech and it's a laundry list of names.

According to Wikipedia, Katee Sackhoff was born in 1980 and Melissa Rauch (Bernadette) was born in 1976.

Also, I didn't find the helium prank particularly clever or funny. It just seemed like standard sitcom fare.

I agree. I was pleasantly surprised by the pilot. I doubt I'll watch it again, though. Being an attorney, I just hate shows about attorneys. I don't see the point is glamorizing something which, in reality, is a very dull job.

Pilots
Okay, I've been thinking about this, and I agree that pilot episodes aren't always great. (For some shows, they're amazing, but they're usually meh.) But, I think people are forgetting why pilot episodes suck. They are terrible because they often spend too much time on exposition, character motivation, and…

Ha. I started a new reply without seeing your post. There's a Settlers of Catan novel, though it's only been published in German.

Boardgames into movies
There's a Settlers of Catan novel, though I think it was only published in German. If we want a movie, I think someone should call Uwe Boll.

I Kind of Like This
American filmmakers have been ripping off foreign cinema (including many great films) for god knows how long… I think it's great when it's other way around.

I know it wasn't the original intent of the song, but did anyone else think how the lyrics of "Get Happy" about judgment day and going to the promised land was just thinly-veiled bragging about how the scientologists are all going to get beamed up in spaceship while the rest of us languish on Earth?

The shortened version is clever, but I still prefer "shuffle fail." I think it's easier to say. Also, I would think that, if explaining the concept verbally, you might have to actually spell "shuf-fail" in order to get it to register.

Shuffle Fail
Thanks for coining this term, Noel. It's strangely comforting to know that I'm not the only one who experiences this. For me, shuffle fail most often comes when I'm in the car (I had an iPod connection installed so the iPod plays through the car speakers) and I've reached the end of a non-shuffled…

I have the same cover that Pilgrim has - it's pretty bad. So bad that I almost judged the book by it.

Chick's character arc reminds me of something out of the TV show Heroes and that's a very bad thing (Has powers, develops them, unstable mentality, works against the system, and then within the system, and then explodes). Now he just needs to come back to life for Season 2.

Actually think you should consider moving it to later in the evening for next month. I don't think that many people on the East Coast are home from work by 5, and it would make it impossible for people in other time zones to participate.

Well, I think it traces back to that whole thing about what Miss Lick was saying - that Miranda truly turned her "deformity" into a positive. It was what all the Binewskis attempted to do, but no one fully succeeded. Murder seemed a bit extreme to me, but it goes with what I was saying about Oly's biggest flaw being…

Yeah. I was expecting the family to sort of collapse under the weight of Arty's decadence and the "everyone dies in a fire" ending bothered me as well.

I have a third nipple I could do without.

I didn't find Oly's loyalty to Arty and her family repulsive or unsettling. Perhaps it's just the natural affinity that one feels with the narrator, but I understand why she was so loyal to her family. Even in the present day, you could tell that she felt pride in being a Binewski - she bought into Al's rhetoric that…

Boobs are cool.
Anyone else think that Ted's naked lady laugh sounded a little like Beavis?