That doesn't seem to be what's happening here. This is: Professional dancers are good at dancing; Taylor Swift is bad at dancing; both of those are OK. There are people appearing in every different style, so it's not even "this is how black people dance, wow!"

Tracy might be Gonzo? Physically destructive, generally on a different wavelength than everyone else, married to a chicken.

"The projects I lived in were named after Zachary Taylor, generally considered to be one of the worst presidents of all time!"

The whiteness is a part of the trope - as it would be in any genre that included "F Troop." This was evident even back when they made "The Magnificent Seven," and they took pains to mitigate the optics of "band of european guys saves native people." It's not bad to point out the problems with that premise, though in…

Which is funny, because Fillion plays Castle essentially as "guy who is completely aware he looks like Mal Reynolds".

Push Brisco County back a decade and you probably have something close to Jack of All Trades, which aired alongside Cleopatra 2525 on (I think) the WB network.

All the ladies love Machete.

Cheech Marin?

Whenever Crash comes up, all I can think of is this: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/a…

"Ann, I know you hate it when I say this, but: your ambiguous ethnic blend perfectly represents the dream of the American melting pot." Gets me every time.

Shazam, with no colors and all, and he never says "Shazam" because that's silly, and in the final scene Billy has to kill Tawky Tawny.

Is the Kate-Suck-O-Meter separate from the "Is Kate in her Underwear?" counter?

That may only be because it had so many great episodes. It was damn better than most pilots, and regular episodes of most other shows, for sure.

If by "the big Locke reveal" you mean when we all learned that Terry O'Quinn is amazing, then yes, you are correct.

That would be a great recurring segment on these write ups: "Dead Ends, Cop Outs and Meaningless Horseshit."

Now that you bring it up, most of the big answers could be reduced to "shenanigans."

You sure could. If you didn't steal the correct pie or something like that you'd be without the proper key to the puzzle. Thus: saving the game under a new title every 15 minutes.

I enjoyed that, too, but: wouldn't *someone* want to pay for Arya Stark? She's a pretty important person, right? And the knights of the Vale are friends of the Starks. I can't imagine that nobody there would be interested in paying the Hound and he'd just walk away.

The "Jane the Virgin" trailer is really something special. We open on angry slut-shaming, and a young girl internalizing the message that her body and desires are bad, dirty things. Follow it up with sensational malpractice with horrific consequences. End on Jane's mother pressuring her to rearrange her life and…

But he's late all the time! That's like a personality trait, right?