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The same way Lex Luthor learned about Kryptonite: by randomly leafing through a National Geographic issue.

I keep telling myself I need to read King Lear if I'm ever to get on Jeopardy, because the Shakespeare questions I always miss are about Lear's damn daughters. And then what was on the online test? A question about Lear's damn daughters.

I got confused by that clue because I didn't recognize the director's name and I thought it was saying the film was released in 1965, not that it was just the film's setting.

Another case of "Cart Man"…

Gotham… Has that gotten any better? Has anything happened on it yet, or is it still circling around the same plot points over and over? I got too bored with it to care and stopped watching. And with Flash, Arrow, iZombie, and (yes, even) Agents of SHIELD, I have no shortage of comics-inspired TV to watch. That's

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

"Who is Jill St. John?"

I honestly think the direction has been a bigger problem than the scripts.

Mantis and the Swordsman!

Kickpauncher?

Badwrong is close to twenty years old now; I first heard it from a guy from Steubenville. I've always assumed everyone says it there.

I was ready to admit that after reading his New 52 Justice League.

I had a Black Hole set I got at a thrift store. I hadn't even seen the movie. The faceless crew members still freaked me out, even in Colorform form.

Hasn't the internet already killed every minor in the L&O universe?

Sexual politics is pretty integral to Outlander, so I don't understand raising that complaint here. Much of the reviewer's complaint was also that Claire's perspective and voice are more interesting, so switching to Jamie's is a net loss for the show.

'Splainin' is actually mid-twentieth century Cuban slang for "take a beating."

How is it I've been to New Orleans yet I have absolutely no memory of there being street cars there?

Katie Holmes…is that the blurry giraffe girl over Ryan Reynolds' shoulder?

"On Dasher, on Richter, on Fichter and Blitzer!"

The years always trip me up with the Oscar clues, as I waste time trying to figure out if they mean the year of the film's release or the year of the ceremony. The Godfather occurred to me, but I was still mentally running through the dialogue in The French Connection (and also couldn't rule out The Sting, not