I'm interested in seeing Looper, because I find most time-travel concepts exceedingly stupid (the movie/TV show/whatever can be good around it, but mostly it's just retarded).  With time travel, the best method of approach is embodied by Doctor Who: it's silly and amusing with no attempt to tease logic out of it.

That's cheating, in my opinion.

Pitch for a TV show: The Henry Hudson Chronicles.  All you'd need is a pool, a small rowboat, and a greenscreen.  Every episode would be a bottle episode, with the cast only declining in number as the series went on.  The ultimate in low-budget TV shows!

Someone on the Parks & Rec writing staff definitely said "April becomes Ben's Malcolm Tucker" when they were pitching ideas.

Suck it, Soviets!

I was re-watching last week's The Thick of It when I had a sudden realization: that wasn't the first time Stewart had hosted a training session.

Wikipedia would've given them a fairly massive leg up.

Wikipedia would've given them a fairly massive leg up.

You had no problems with the captain of a boomer, presumably knowing what the effects of nuclear warhead might have, being A-OK with detonating one, just because it was "200 miles east of Washington"?

You had no problems with the captain of a boomer, presumably knowing what the effects of nuclear warhead might have, being A-OK with detonating one, just because it was "200 miles east of Washington"?

There's about six episodes worth of plot in this episode alone.  The relentlessness of the pace pretty much prevents any part of the pilot from being compelling for me, because it reduces characters to one or two expository lines, the supposed-to-be-tender moments to sap, and make the character motivations baffling.

There's about six episodes worth of plot in this episode alone.  The relentlessness of the pace pretty much prevents any part of the pilot from being compelling for me, because it reduces characters to one or two expository lines, the supposed-to-be-tender moments to sap, and make the character motivations baffling.

Hitfix has season premiere photos:

This.  THIS.

Fan fiction.

I fucking hate my facial hair.  I have the absolute worst of both words: it grows fast enough that I have to shave every day, but not thick enough for me to grow a beard without looking terrible.

*cue riff from "Genghis Khan"*

*cue riff from "Genghis Khan"*

It was good.

Yeah, it's annoying.