God damn it, so much for my Beautiful Laundrette II spec script!

Hey guys, I don't know if anyone else has ever noticed this, but the Cars universe is sorta weird! And if you take what we know about it to its logical extremes, it's actually pretty terrify-

"What did you do on your lunch break?"
"Sat in the Pita Pit parking lot doing a deep dive on my phone into the logistics of the Wheel Of Fortune set. You?"

"we will be replacing it moving forward on any rebroadcast"

"People are saying you look a lot like Wolverine on American Gods. Would you be interested in playing him?"
"Sure…? I mean, if the script's right and-"
"Any other heroes you'd like to play?"
"Uh…I dunno. I saw Deadpool, that was fun. He seems like he'd be a blast to play?"

The comments on the Jeremy Davies article linked above are something else: http://www.avclub.com/artic…

I get how this episode felt like a Classic Who serial, but I have to say that last week's also felt quite a bit like a different, earlier kind of Classic Who story: only one set, a gang of stuffy redshirts for the Doctor to grapple with, a couple aliens in stiff makeup.

This was the episode where Pearl Mackie learned that, of all the people on the set, you have to be nicest to the Wardrobe crew. Oof.

The best part of that is the Australians being equally baffled by European crows.

As someone who spent his Angry Young Man years in New Orleans, I'm always delighted when a character shows a distaste for jazz…

"They all call me Granddad, I'm the oldest."
"How old are you?"
"Ex vee eye eye eye…"

There's an extra-long commercial break just before the final act, and BBCA breaks it up with a short teaser for what's coming up. The teaser is usually medium-spoilery.

In my family's Trivial Pursuit games as a kid, we always skipped the sports questions. But our house rule was the question would still be read, and you always answered Secretariat. Something like 30% of the time you were right.

Luckily BBC America was there to spoil it in a commercial break!

The episode ended on such an odd note…does it count as a cliffhanger? Why does "Are you all right?" have such significance in this context?

I'll take this week's "pleasant but forgettable" episode over last week's "frustrating and confounding" episode.

So…Bill doesn't know Friday from Robinson Crusoe, but she knows a fairly obscure Kirk Douglas movie from 1958!?

Not hypothetical at all…I took the first one almost verbatim from the first letter here: http://io9.gizmodo.com/post…

(Please note that I will continue making this joke until the movie comes out or I have to get a Kinja account, whichever comes first. Thank you.)

Wait…Adrian Tomine is the The Vulture!? Oh man, and I really loved his New Yorker covers, too.