Yes, I crave the opportunity to shoot terrorists with my dildo-gun.

Studio 60 was good, haters gonna hate
Just kidding.

"I'll stop talking about House"
'cause fuck that show and its writers.

Well, Morrison's joining HIMYM on a longish-term basis, right? I think we can chalk up the credit to some desire to not change the intro, which is dumb but oh well.

Weird coincidence
Syzygy and Grotesque both have actors who went on to That 70s Show.

May you chop off your hand with a chainsaw, only to realize you chopped off the wrong one.

Yes, Courage the Cowardly Dog indeed.

Right. It might be that this show is schlocky enough that the very notion of reviewing it misses the point. But it's the best damn kind of schlocky.

Hey, 3rd place you're fired, here's an easy way to prove that theory: go give neighborhood kids copies of Playboy, and tell us what happens.

Here's a question
Why, of all the shows that you guys could liveblog, did you go with American Idol? Is this show really still so important/engrossing to require it?

I think most people have realized that the traditional Romero model of reanimated-bodies-craving-brains is very implausible, but, say, a behavior-changing virus like 28 Days Later is not necessarily impossible. It would make at least a bit of sense within the mass-plague model, since it would be a virus that didn't…

tipcup: You win an internet point, sir.

"Run, John Cusack! The fucking CGI is trying to rape you!"

No, no, Battle Quarter Pounder.

Between this and High Violet
this has been a pretty awesome month in music.

The "sexy dames and ruthless assholes" line
I have to say, it makes Jeff Probst sound like the Raymond Chandler of reality television.

You know you're pushing the torture thing hard
when goddamn Michael Madsen is the levelheaded guy.

Next week's episode
looks like a rehash of House's Head without all the existential devices and Wilson's Heart without the pathos. If you wanted to keep me interested, House, could you do it with compelling episodes rather than rehashes, especially not awful rehashes? Thanks in advance.

I have many, and it varies, so I'll just go with:

That song-movie mashup is one of my favorite ever. The editing is perfect, and the song is funereal and yet has a bit of brightness at the end that makes it a complete package, kinda like the scene.