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Brent Spiner: "Can I be in the sequel?"
Producer: "Didn't your character die in the last one?"
Brent Spiner: "I was strangled by an alien and shot, like, fifty times, but why should that matter?"
Producer: "Recite 'Ode to Spot' for me and it's a deal."

Gonna give you the benefit of the doubt here Jake and assume you're playing up on the fact lots of people THINK Will Smith said "erff" in Independence Day when, in fact, he clearly pronounces our planet's namely correctly.

Best finale of the night. And the watering-can-bong was a great little gag.

Yeah, that, for me, is the most interesting part of this story existing both as a book and as a TV show. Some things are much easier to read about than they are to watch — I think everyone would agree on that. But the fact that the show invented the scenes that were hardest to watch is just kind of confusing — like,

"Iannucci and company deserve tremendous praise for finding and exploiting such a wonderful loophole." Do they ever. Like everyone on the show, I, too, immediately googled "electoral vote tie" after hearing it was somehow possible.

For me, the troubling part of this episode (and for this season overall) was not that terrible things happened; it's that terrible things happened to children in a very explicit way. It's one thing to briefly show burned and mangled child corpses, but it's another thing entirely to listen to a child while she burns to