All glory to the Hypnotoad.

Thanks, Stopejai. Now my nose has coffee in it.

I missed the pilot and didn't catch the show until the fourth episode, "Love's Labours Lost in Space." But whoo, boy, was that ever the right episode for instant hookage. ('Cause, you know, I watched it with hookers.)

Camera one. Camera two. Camera three.

Arr, the laws of science be a harsh mistress.

Friends! Help! A guinea pig tricked me!

Yes indeedy, Lovecraft, Donald in Mathmagic Land did succinctly explain geometry on the pool table. Possibly taking her cue from this cartoon, my high-school calculus teacher taught us how to figure the statistics of a game of craps. She also once danced on stage with Chris Isaak, which in 1997 made her the coolest…

Futurama, of course
Does "The Farnsworth Parabox" count as a bottle episode? It took place almost entirely within the Planet Express building and used only the main cast of characters (although there were two of each of them.)

Four Things
1. Dod Kalm is the absolute worst X-Files episode ever. It was kind of our Mr. VanDerWerff to point out the bright spots, but they are overwhelmed by the enormous vacuum of suck that surrounds them.

The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Tour
I had tickets for both nights, but my douchebag boyfriend and I were in a fight and ended up not going to either. Boo.

I agree that scene was surprising and out of place. It would have worked fine for the Muppets, didn't work for the good people of Cecily. The time Joel, Maggie and Holling looked through the binoculars and saw the Log Lady and all started craving cherry pie and donuts didn't work for me, either. Sometimes too…

Holy shit are those kids ever traumatized.

All that plus an explosive temper as a bonus. Yikes.

Three things
1) Because of the first two episodes reviewed here, I swore a mighty oath to start a band called Fake Samantha and the Hybrid Clones.

I am fucking a moron, though, so points there.

Thank you, CN, you took the words right out of my mouth. CLASSICS REPRESENT, REPRESENT!

I realize we may have to wait for a Justice League movie for this, but can we please get Sam Rockwell as The Question?

Ben Lee, "Sleepwalking"
Paul Simon, "Late in the Evening"
Billy Joel, "Famous Last Words"
Nina Simone, "Ne Me Quitte Pas"

No discussion needed. "Four Rooms" is utter plops. Beware, however - inexplicably, it does have fanatics who will insist breathlessly that a bed with a prostitute's corpse in it is, like, SO AMAZING. Roth deserved a better film; perhaps now he has learned not to take parts that were dropped by Buscemi.

Huh?
What the hell is this? Who are…why did…how do they…what was the…WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?