Because a lot of decisions people have to make these days deal with biology — what diet they should follow, why vaccinating your kids is important, why treating your illness with those homeopathic solutions that Whole Foods sells is not a good idea. That's why I care.

You do know the point of the series is to parody classic documentaries, right? It's not like "The Thin Blue Line" (a former target) is that much more recent.

Depends on your age. They were reasonably big when "Stop Making Sense" was in theatres in 1984. And of course the band Radiohead was named after one of the songs in it — or maybe that was actually from their later film "True Stories".

Because his marriage with noted scientologist Elisabeth Moss didn't work out? He's "not a normal person" according to Moss, who believes in normal things like the Galactic Overlord Xenu.

Isn't "Gerald's Game" a Pixar short about two old men playing chess?

Actually there are sustainable seafood and unsustainable mushrooms.

Well, it would be nice if more of them actually studied biology rather than English literature or basketweaving or some such.

All lifeforms (including plants and bacteria) respond to negative stimuli and can be said to have some degree of "suffering" (which except for humans, who can tell us what they are feeling we can only tell by observations of stimuli and response). That's the problem. How do you prioritize the response to stimuli of…

They'll cut it in the inevitable home video release of the camera footage, don't you worry.

That would work better if it was adjusted for inflation. $196K per dot and we're talking! $20K in "Third Man" times was serious money.

Just the character and not Soleil Moon Frye herself, right?

Why? How does it make them look bad? Anyway, I've never seen a vegetarian or vegan who understood enough biology to understand that technically they shouldn't eat fungi because fungi are actually closer to animals rather than plants. Eating fish and not mammals is basically the same thing as eating fungi but not fish…

Actually Lovecraft's racism is more discomforting coming as his did from somebody so well read and intellectual as he was (although not formally educated due to economic reasons), rather than the typical "hoary and primodial" racism from non-intellectuals. In that regard he is more like somebody like Heidegger who you…

The Lovecraftian references aren't just limited to Fallout 4 though, so I don't think it is just the idea that Boston is part of "Lovecraft Country", but is just part of Fallout in general. Fallout 3 (set in the DC metro area) had the whole subplot dealing with the Dunwich Building, which was Lovecraftian both in name…

F Troop. That brings back memories. Not that I'm old enough to have seen it in its original showing, but 1960s comedies like F Troop and Gilligan's Island seemed to be staples of after-school pre-prime-time TV in the late 1970s-early 1980s.

Well, "The American Friend" was better than the recent version under the novel's name of "Ripley's Game", I'll give him that.

To some extent. But remember, those suburbs the GIs were moving to weren't luxurious — they were full of "little boxes, little boxes, all made out of ticky-tacky" as Pete Seeger sang. They were moving to them not because they thought they were better than the city but because, much like today, the city was expensive.

Well, the puzzles required a bit more logic rather than just flipping levers until something happened (yes, I know you can argue that there was a supposedly logical reason for the flipping, but in a game like Myst you don't *need* to know the logic — just random clicking works).

Here's the thing. In the 1980s and early 1990s adventure game players either started out on text-based Infocom games like Zork, or if they were a bit younger, on graphical LucasArts games like "The Secret of Monkey Island". "Myst" just seemed a bit of a dumbing down of the whole thing. It's interesting now with games…

Although Maltin is redeemed with the shortest review ever of a movie — "Isn't it romantic?" got a review of "No".