Series 3 was definitely a bit of a let-down - you know the writers have got a bit too comfy with their devoted fanbase when they devote an episode to deconstructing one of their running gags (crimping), and it just ruins the joke anyway.

@tropeofmonkeys: yes it is. I much preferred the radio show though.

The TMNT game on the C64 (same as the NES version) was probably the only old-school game I ever completed without cheating. The trick to the whole game was to make sure that you got Donatello through - they were all equally strong, but D had the longest range, and was the quickest at diffusing those damn bombs.

Congrats on your first punctuation mark too, ZMF.

Evel, what on Earth were you doing watching Naturewatch? That is one of the creepiest shows I've ever switched off!

Yeah, I was wondering how "straight line" was an insult. dy/dx, on the other, hand… zing.

The British food scene's actually been pretty healthy since the late 80s (though the less said about the 70s, the better). Like anything else, you have to know where to look. When people say that the food in the UK is "getting better these days" it's like when people say that they've heard that apparently vinyl is…

Marks & Spencer have been doing pre-cooked crispy bacon for years now. My dad loves that shit.

Evel: I'm with Existence on this. Your experiment would be true if the rockets ever reached infinity, but seeing as they never will, that analogy doesn't hold.

Is that a complaint? I think Peter and Jordan give us plenty enough time-wastage. Them and a bunch of dumb WAGs and interchangeable talent show dropouts.

Thanks Stickpicture - I'm glad someone else is still rocking that one.

Yay, a theme poster.

Speaking of TV cooks who never cook anything, I'd just like to say that Nigella Lawson can go eat frosted butterscotch off Anthony Worral Thompson's taint.

And there was I wondering where Mickey Rooney's next role would come from.

Ghosts n' Goblins starring Ben Affleck
Castlevania starring Russell Brand
Mr Do! starring Robin Williams
Shinobi starring Daniel Dae Kim
Turrican starring Hugh Jackman

Yes. That is correct. Multinational drug companies (you know, good ol' American companies like GlaxoSmithKline and Roche) only EVER take money from Americans.

"so fucking dumb and selfish she puts herself through half a dozen miscarriages"

Electric Facebookaloo?

I knew this day would come
I'll fess, I cried like a little girl when I read the Time Traveler's Wife. This is out of character for me, but that book was cold AWESOME. And then once I'd pulled myself together, I realised that it would one day become a throwaway romance movie and I cried again - but not the good kind,…

OK, "sickening" is a bit overstated. It's a long time since I saw it, but as I remember, the gearshift is marked by a numbingly repetitive dirge of a musical cue that goes on FOREVER, and the sudden air of dire foreboding had quite a nightmarish quality.