Woohoo! $641.8 million and counting! Congratulations, Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg!

Around these parts, it never went out of fashion in the first place.

A 1,000-word disquisition on "Pluggers," or I'm canceling my subscription

The cartoonist has a chin fetish.

That's more or less it - Australians have been known to use a "far North of Australia" = "Deep South of the U.S." analogy. Queenslanders tend to think otherwise, of course.

If it causes Clive Palmer to go to the wall, I'm all for it: he's a right-wing nutjob. He last made headlines about a month ago, when he accused Australia's Green Party, the CIA and Barack Obama of colluding in a plot to destroy the Australian coal industry (i.e. the source of his wealth). And today, simultaneous to…

[Edited because I took too long to come up with what turned out to be essentially the same, but not-quite-as-good, Tivo joke]

True enough. Wesley Crusher had nothing on Adric in that regard.

"At least when Adric was killed in 'Earthshock,' the audience was asked to care about it". Although this is true, I do remember my response at the time being something along the lines of, "Adric's dead! About time!"

Maybe - I haven't seen Avatar, but Bland's pretty good in "The Debt" (which I will call an action movie for the purposes of this comment thread).

Does Paul Walker count? No, he doesn't.

It's just common sense: what would it be like to badmouth Actor X, and then discover that you'll be working with him again on your very next production? That could only make life on the set pretty uncomfortable.

Music by Mark Mothersbaugh!

I think I read somewhere that Aardman supplied the stop-motion figure used for the sketch - it certainly looks like their style.

As an older Australian who likes his politicians to be models of decorum and good taste, my preferred Prime Minister is Bob Menzies - who once said of and to the Queen, at a banquet in the 1960s (quoting the Elizabethan poet Thomas Ford): "I did but see her passing by, and yet I love her till I die."

Here's what they've changed:

Behind the scenes at Aardman: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Coach Fredericks.

Turns out that it's an incomplete quote - I'll add the missing words: "… finishing (off) a record (company) that I had started (bankrupting) in the 90's."

Ok then, let's be clear - "this was a painfully boring, fake interview" is just your opinion. And in any case, you're wrong.