Don't know. And I can't ask her because she died of breast cancer 5 years ago.

One of my proudest moments in life was dragging my mom to see this when I was 12. Still one of the filmgoing highlights of my life. Like a little secret that only I knew.

Robin's Reckoning (even though he's a whiny brat throughout), a Ra's Al Ghul episode where he takes out a henchman on a bridge (after being kidnapped by Ra's), and the first ninja episode where he dumps a carpet over a witness so Bruce Wayne can fight the ninja are the ONLY three things he did to help in the entire…

A Cyndi Lauper show may be enough to break my perfect record of having never watched a reality show.

Is it strange that I like Jon Hamm a lot more for his comedy stylings than his dramatic work, including Mad Men?

I haven't watched this much since the first 6 episodes, but I caught part of last night's episode. I think Dennings tried a lot harder in those first episodes. She really needed to sell the jokes. She's probably just burned out on doing so much heavy lifting now or figured out that it doesn't matter. People are tuning…

Barney's been petty and done things to win meaningless bets, but there was no other motivation here. The entire idea was, "let's fuck with my friends using this convoluted path", but the 'fucking' consists solely of some brief kissing. He could've made them do a number of other things, from cleaning his apartment to…

Obviously, the season ends with Barney running away from his wedding to Quinn and eloping with Robin. That's why she and Ted won't see each other for a long time.

Putting 2 Broke Girls over HIMYM means Todd should never be allowed to write these again.

I have to grade this episode on a curve.

It blew my mind when Emily namechecked the Bill & Ted game. It was the first game I thought of when the topic came up, but I figured it was way to obscure for anyone to know.

I just started the Mindy Kaling interview a while ago, and I've just gotten to the part about her comedy nerdom and transcribing SNL skits. The comedy discussion only came after an extended side trip into Kaling Indian heritage and Marc talking about how interested, in a superficial way, he is in Indian culture. It…

Do you remember back during the Simpsons "who shot Mr. Burns?" cliffhanger, when fans grasped at every little scrap of potential clues and overanalyzed the shit out of them?

When it got to 5000, I took an afternoon to read through the ~3500 new comments since I'd last been there. I don't think my webbrowser can handle 37K comments, so I haven't been back. I can't wait until a few years from now, when it will still be getting the occasional new comment.

I kept waiting for someone to explain to the dean that it was just the rehearsal, and the wedding was sort of improv-ed.

Good news, everybody!

5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Contact!

In Nancy Grace's defense, the white girls are pretty and speak English. Africans are scary and different.

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"You don't have to yell at us.  Nobody is on the other side of this."

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Her testimony went into the Congressional record. But yes, it was mostly a photo op to draw attention to the regressive and misogynist official Republican-run hearing. Which the Republicans could've avoided if they'd simply allowed even a single woman to testify at their…