I, too, am worried that someone might collect the bounty, but somehow fail to kill him. On the other hand, the opportunity to try again, repeatedly and with great frequency, is an upside. I know I'd be more likely to watch The Apprentice if I knew each season finale would involve the ritual Skinning Of The Donald.

@avclub-152cc7bd380aa7ddee2fb624d87228b1:disqus  I still stand by my theory. Couple points:

@avclub-f121d09285898f1c66d66f1e6f0455a6:disqus Thanks—I was quite proud of myself for catching it, although I'm a little surprised that it's not more generally assumed. To be fair, though, up until now (finally broke down and got HBO) I've been watching the seasons exclusively as marathons when the DVDs become…

@avclub-f121d09285898f1c66d66f1e6f0455a6:disqus Here's my logic:

@avclub-db0c35ce2663c0e8c4b3f38642a49748:disqus —great. Now I'm gonna spend the rest of the night wondering if I'm just flat out wrong, or if I'm so far ahead of the curve that I've lapped the author.

Technically I'm just guessing, but I'm pretty sure my reasoning is fairly ironclad. I also haven't read the books. I did check the DVD extra on Jon Snow to make sure that I was correctly remembering Ned's story about where Jon Snow came from. (I was, and I found pretty much everything in the bio again when I watched…

Well, no Targaryens unless you count Jon Snow. And nobody ever does!!!

I’m just speculating here, but I can’t help but think that “colorfully and relentlessly insult the people who you are about to sell 8K fanatically obedient, utterly conscienceless super-soldiers to” seems a pretty risky business strategy. Might not end well. Just sayin’.

Mine is "1990 Best Picture Dances With Wolves," leaving Goodfellas to languish at the same level as The Godfather Part III, Awakenings, and—God help us all—Ghost.

“A Distant Star” is my least favorite episode of the second season, and should probably be skipped by non-completists.

O'NEALBOT—

I was skeptical early on about Shane as this seasons foreground villain. (We all know that a background, "here's the twist, guys" villain will be showing up, right? I'm hoping for Elijah.) But I'm really getting into his Jim Jones, Kool-Aid For Everyone! shtick. I'm just a bit sad that our artist of wacky has such…

I know every little bit helps, but looking at the candle guy and his wares, I suspect alpaca guy pulls in maybe $10.50, $11.00 a month, tops. Fannie probably got more rent out of him just by nicking that basket.

I'm desperately looking forward to new Game of Thrones episodes. With Fringe gone, the only shows I'm really following are Bunheads, Vampire Diaries, and Downton Abbey (which I'm awfully close to giving up on). At this point, even I'm starting to get confused about me.

Human beings have been writing poetry since the dawn of our existence. Thank god you finally came along to tell us we've all been wasting our time.

I'm not falling for this "James Franco" thing. I recognize an Onion satire when I see one. No actual human could amass that much unjustified self-importance without collapsing into some sort of bizarre ego-singularity. The planet hasn't actually been swallowed by a black hole composed entirely of delusional…

What really sells that scene is the look on Dan's face when he sees who's come to bail him out: some truly epic, nearly Old Testament levels of irritation, mixed with more than a little bit of despair.

The joke was actually funnier than that. Goodman's hand was wrapped in a blood-soaked rag because he'd split his knuckles open on a man's face—what Rosanne suggested was that he disinfect it: "You should put some alcohol on that." Rosanne leaves kitchen. Dan: "Good idea!"

"As a teenager, he learned to be comfortable performing for a crowd by 'getting freaky' with a girl in front of his friends before moving into another room, as a way of getting comfortable with having sex in public. Once he began working, he took pride in being professional: he was never late, and his behavior was…

As someone who has evidently become an old person all of a sudden (apparently I accidentally signed for a non-refundable shipment of crotchety—I could have sworn I ordered a refill of relaxed, unflappable coolness), let me make it abundantly clear to all you kids, with your Rapping Music and sending each other…