I need this sent to the Prussian consulate in Siam. Am I too late for the three-thirty autogyro?

"A Clockwork Orange" also got referenced a lot early on, usually involving Bart somehow.

The toppings contain POTASSIUM BENZOATE!!!!

Laugh tracks are evil.
I can appreciate this stuff for its historical value, but damn. Most of those (admittedly out of context) clips are freaking painful to watch. The smarminess and broadness just makes them seem clumsy and dated. The only one I even smiled at was Latka.

I definitely think the idea that the Q think of existence as, essentially, a gigantic game, which of course makes sense for omnipotent immortals. They've essentially devolved morally in the absence of anything to keep them challenged, so they've become the Mr. Mxyzptlks of the universe. (And if anything, I think they…

I absolutely love…
…the way Reese Witherspoon's character vanishes halfway into the movie and is never mentioned again. Also, Willem Dafoe's performance, where one second he's a deadpan professional, the next he seems to be flirting with Bateman, and the next it seems like he knows everything and is fucking with his…

Hey Zack
Have you seen Millennium? Specifically, the Season 2 episode written by Darin Morgan which brings back Jose Chung? I know you said you'd seen "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me", which as far as I know is the last episode of TV Morgan ever wrote.

Yeah, the show got way too heavy on the emo starting this season. Ironically the characters ended up acting more immature the further they got from high school.

Extrapolating from my conversations with Zach about Angel…I think it's both a good sigh and a bad sigh. :)

Fred is divisive?
I thought everyone loved her. How can you not?

Supervan Vs. Battletruck
Who would win? Show your work.

Continuity was the bane of this show.
The big problem with the X-Files, to me, ended up being that it came along just as the idea of a TV series telling elaborate, multi-season arcs was beginning to sink in. In spite of all the talk about the mythology, Carter seemed pretty determined to keep it as a stand-alone,…

Yes, it's kind of funny that Duchovny himself ended up being the guy who was best able to follow in Morgan's footsteps. He wasn't as good, but he caught some of the same vibe and wit without making it seem forced. It was just the two episodes Duchovny wrote, right?

I was always surprised that "Quagmire" wasn't a Morgan episode, because it felt so much like one of his—not just the humour but the dense structure and the sense of fake-outs within fakeouts. Plus the way it took a skewed and interesting look at various philosophical ideas. And, of course, the presence of both…

Only B+ for Scott Pilgrim?
Sounds like bet-hedging. It's a pretty superb finale. So what if it doesn't stand alone?

Love and Monsters is about turning women into blowjob machines. That one point pretty much erases anything else that might have been good about that episode, and indeed, a significant portion of the joy in the universe.

The Do-Over season
This season of Who has basically been, as a few fans have pointed out, the Tennant run repeated over again, but with a competent writer in charge and actual ideas behind the stories.

I'm sort of astounded that anyone can argue that this wasn't the best season of NuWho by a country mile. The Davies run had moments of greatness (most of them provided by Moffat) but for the most part, it was BAAAAAAAD. Weirdly compelling, and with charismatic leads, but BAAAAAAAD.

Time Squared…
The lack of an explanation for the Time Vortex bugged me when I was a kid, because it seemed more like lazy writing than anything. I remember reading later that the original plan was to have the vortex be, yes, a test—sent from Q. And this episode would then lead into "Q Who", which would have been cool.…

The flashbacks are often kinda dopey, but they're singlehandedly justified by the 1970s-era blaxploitation subway fight in "Fool For Love".