It was probably there for the handful of Harry Potter fans who don't quite grasp that Emma Watson and Hermione Granger are not the same person.

"Gleeson…briefly voicing himself after he’s turned into a duck…"

It's amazing how much better Enterprise would have been in hindsight if they'd made the finale a Quantum Leap instead of a Next Generation episode.

I'll admit to not really liking this episode.  I don't dislike it: Diana's reaction to Bruce's "This is why I can't have nice things" speech alone is worth the price of admission.  But I can't help comparing it to "The Great Brain Robbery," which was funny but still managed to advance the main plot.  This one is pure…

I think you answered it yourself: it's intellectual fantasy.  But Sorkin's smart enough to set his shows in environments where it doesn't seem all that out of place.  We know political operatives and newspeople have to sit down and do research and refer to the Teleprompter before they can rattle off statistics and…

No, but after he regenerates into Sylvester McCoy, they'll go off the air for a while.

That's your Pixar selection?  Not The Sharknado Finds Nemo?

Martin's said he based Oberyn on Inigo Montoya.  Imagine if they'd actually cast Mandy Patinkin.

@avclub-cd3695fb409b3ce6dc60ca44b08983ac:disqus , wouldn't the Shark Repellent Bat Spray take care of that problem?

See, I don't read "millions of other people" as "everyone."  He's reminding her that it's a common - not universal, but common - experience.  And again, it's focused on what happened.  I just don't see the implication that he's advising her to get back out there and do it again.

"Now, alter your expectations, dammit, so you can have fun the next time."

Do I need to warn for spoilers for a comic that's been out for decades and a movie that's been out for years?  Meh, guess it couldn't hurt.

She has a couple of other dramas in the hopper.  Something tells me she's not too bummed about having more space on her schedule.

Antonio agreed to the contract.  If this were a tragedy, he'd have died for the sin of hubris because he failed to take the possibility he might have to pay out seriously, and hypocrisy for availing himself of Shylock's services even as he disparaged them.  And as Chaz says, Portia's judgment costs Shylock everything…

"Portia, one of the most purely lovable of all of Shakespeare’s
characters, is speaking to Shylock, one of the most reprehensible (and,
to modern eyes, one of the most problematic, since he’s basically an
Elizabethan era Jewish stereotype that Shakespeare only fitfully tries
to humanize)."

Maybe it's for the best you guys couldn't find the rest of the Crossfire episode.  Seems like it would have covered a lot of the same ground.

AWIT: Yes, good on you for cutting back on the drinking.  But if that was all there was to it, I'm guessing your fiancee wouldn't have gotten to the proposal stage because she'd have dumped you when you started draping your intoxicated self over random strangers at parties.  (If I'm wrong, then I guess at least she…

…Why would you taunt us with that picture and not actually offer it?

I managed to completely skim over the part that this was someone involved with the OJ trial rather than OJ himself, and was torn between two opposing yet equally strong thoughts:

Sample a random group of readers to find out how they reacted, and nine times out of ten, the only variation will be in how hard they threw the book.