Literally nothing. The entire sentence was just an excuse to use the word first, on account of my post's position on the page. It's a new thing I've come up with, hope nobody rips it off.

No.

That interpretation definitely makes sense, I hadn't considered that. I took it as her pre-empting suggestion that she either gave permission to him or collaborated with him on it in any way or even unwittingly led him to the same idea by casually mentioning it over the phone, but that could be the cynic in me.

But he knows TIg pretty well, so fairly unlikely he wouldn't have been familiar enough with it to flag up the similarity.

Hey, I thought you loved it when we did impressions on SNL. How's this different?! Hypocrites.

So once again Louis CK knew he wasn't the first to think of it and did it anyway?

I'm certain you're right on both counts. I forgot there was already a Harry Potter actor playing an evil German that he could crib from. It seems so obvious now! Maybe he'll say the occasional W as a V - not all the time, but just often enough so we don't forget. It would make a lot of sense for him to act in a…

Good enough for me!

Haha yeah, that's why I was so careful to say "not American" instead of "British" to make it look like it fit the same argument even though I know it didn't quite. It still flies in the face of the rule though, if we assume "only Brits as Brits" really meant "more or less everyone as themselves, with exceptions for…

Anyone know why the new adaptation was so set on making Pennywise so young? When Will Poulter was supposed to be starring, I thought it was weird casting but also he's a good actor so it could work. But then after he dropped out, they cast a guy who's 2 years older than Poulter but looks 6 years younger. I get skewing…

I've honestly never even noticed they were unusual. If I had to guess, having now looked at it closely, 'd imagine they're done that way either because a) it's a natural way of sketching blocks of color when designing a character or b) because it's an aesthetic that's not been seen much before so maybe sets them apart…

A "good" wubba-lubba-dub-dub? In the tongue of my people, it means "I am in great pain. Please help me."

The head of the US Magic Society, the senator's son, a bunch of the adopted kids from that anti-magic cult thing - not to mention Colin Farrell himself, who is great but decidedly not American in real life. I guess a decision was just made early on in the process to scrap the authenticity rule altogether.

The main thing that annoys me about Depp being in that movie, except for the fact that he hasn't actually bothered acting in quite a few years, was the breaking of the series-long "only Brits as Brits" rule. I guess it was only fair though, considering how distractingly they broke the reverse of that rule with all the…

Can somebody who knows Harry Potter explain how Dumbledore ages? I only read a couple books and saw a few of the movies (including this one) because of my partner so I may be missing something that's been explained, but he's like 150 at the end right? But still looks like a 60-year-old and acts even younger? So does…

Deaf people and people who've never been to either country?

This is actually exactly right. Good work.

Of course, how else would I show satisfaction with my latest oil deal?

That's what I thought when I saw that scene, too. There's no way Pete doesn't actually know what AT-ATs are called and why would he feel the need to dumb down a pop culture reference in the middle of a fight? Media-savvy wisecracks are kind of his whole thing.

Sure. Ever see a guy with a gun right in front of you and be told he was a mile away? Or see two guys with guns and be told there was only ever one? That's more analogous to what I'm talking about.