The grandfather is on his way to pick up the TV, thereby injuring himself. Rather than warn him not to, Jerry sighs, "It's go time." I'm not a huge fan of the Mandelbaums themselves, but Jerry's reactions to them are inevitably hilarious.

Sims gets a lot of hate on these boards, but, yeah, the first time I ever hated him was when he omitted, "How old is the son?" / "I think he's the same age as the father!" from his stray observations. Probably my favourite Seinfeld line ever. You've lost your one fan, Sims.

It's ironic that this attempt to insult Sims misuses the word "ironic". You really gave him the old switcheroo.

Meredith: you find Richard "chilling"? You should familiarize yourself with Brian Heidik and Russell Hantz. Rewatching Borneo twenty-plus seasons later, it's amazing how Richard was seen as a villain for playing a very rudimentary form of the same game that, in subsequent seasons, virtually everybody has tried to play.

It's funny: I HATED E. Pluribus Wiggum, because it seemed so desperate not to offend anybody that it invented random politicians to run for president against Ralph, and then "satirized" them with the vaguest, broadest stereotypes imaginable. (Take that, "Governor Vincent Aleppo!") But it turns out when it goes the…

I like Sims more than most people here (hi, Sims! You have some fans!), but I had to like that for the 'continuity' bit. You have some fans too, Lieutenant Buttocks.

I agree with you completely, but I'm glad at least it's a serious director doing it and not Mick Garris. Remember the King-Garris remake of "The Shining" that was "more faithful to the book"? Worst anything ever.

jerodast: Asuka is your "dear boy"? I sorta liked you before I knew you was queer!

Craig, I've always thought I was hallucinating Frank's blatant homophobia, because he never actually says anything as bluntly as Rudy does—-he says he hates Brandon (who's gayer than Richard Hatch squared times Liberace cubed) because he (Frank) is "old-fashioned" and "isn't comfortable with…you know." Friends (by…

"obviously, all of the geniuses aiming for Ivy League schools make him feel horribly inadequate" - that's "him" as in George, not "him" as in Steve. And that *does* happen.

Adam: you think she'd've beaten Rudy? Really? I can't imagine who, in a Kelly-Rudy F2, would've voted for Kelly.

Maybe somebody from the States/the '60s can explain to me: did JFK have, er, ah, er, ah, er, ah, er, ah, some kind of speech impediment? Because when I hear some jackass whose daddy bought him the presidency stammer like an idiot without being able to say two consecutive, ah, er, ah, er, ah, words, I'm not exactly…

He does. It's much worse. That's what happens when you get eight years of a guy who's basically George W. Bush, except from Massachusetts and probably with syphillis.

I love Joe Hill. His novels aren't as good as 20th Century Ghosts - the story-within-a-story section in Best New Horror is, simply, scarier (and better-written) than anything Dad's ever done - but they're still as good as, say, Cujo.

Christine has its strengths, but anything with an absolutely indestructible villain doesn't work for me. I mean, the whole plot of the book is that this car kills people, destroying itself in the process, and then fixes itself. Then these idiots (in fairness, they're high school students, but still) decide, "We've got…

So you missed the ending? The guy's kid says some gibberish. That's literally the end: the guy's been hoping to be reunited with his kid (or something) and then the kid shows up and says some gibberish. Just like in his past ten books, the saying of gibberish is basically the point of the book. I hate…

I also think 11/22/63 is King's best book in about fifteen years, and that Under the Dome is second, but I give them about a C and a C-, respectively. As you say in your review, "Jake Epping" is the same absolutely personality-free guy who's been King's narrator/protagonist in every post-van-accident book. It's such…

Asuka: I agree, that's another classic bit that would never happen in modern Simpsons. I put it smack dab in the middle of the golden era, though.

He's done it.

My original point was more that the classic era had so many different styles of humour, including just about every level of "brow" you could name, and melded them all seamlessly, whereas the current series is just a silly cartoon where Homer says stupid things.