Some historians we are in fact in the midst of the fourth great plague, it's just nigh-entirely in rodent form of late.

*surreptitiously steals stock options from toilet paper roll*

Yeah it definitely ends on a 'Fuck the Mundane' note and all (both good and bad) that that entails.

Wasn't history always a weakness of the brand, though?

It would have to be a '60s Batman played by Adam West, no less - at least for part of it - and it would be glorious!

I'd like to think there wouldn't even be a conversation. Just 17 year old whoever coming round the corner and smack dab into the anger-enforced silence of an older person you almost recognize, dressed weirdly, and that you have just enough time to register that person is equipped with a hardened plastic knuckle duster…

Isn't that - in Latin - the motto of the Sherlock Party?

As someone with a boy toddler and another on his way up, I can't tell if the admiration I've developed for cars is simply the result of my analysis of their pure technique, or Stockholm syndrome.

That is awesome.

That was what the movie Toys was about.

I don't know, for a very long time Citizen was by far the worse option morally as it was purely a statement that the laws were built to privilege you. Subject just meant you got whatever deal you had, Citizen meant you got a better deal than everyone else.

Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I liked the later seasons where the feel I had was less brilliant anthropologist than confident anthropologist with a good team and lab borrowed from Star Trek.

Yeah, later seasons worked for me because Brennan was less Sherlady Holmes - Star Nutter! than she's the nut on our team, but really you just roll through the 30 seconds of nut per 10 minute period and then it's all pretty pleasant.

I always want to think the dramatic tension would come from it not being worth it even if he is right.

Here's the issue. (A) I might have more faith in public consciousness than I should but (B) what's the overlap on the unconscious public and the audience for any of those films?

You'll know the instant they invent time machines because suddenly everyone will universally have a memory of getting punched in the face by a 30 year old member of their own gender when they were 17.

I think that he did open up the conversation with Roger & Me (I mean people were certainly aware, but he put together a lot of discrete elements into a more coherent picture) but for BfC, F911, & Sicko that did not seem to be true.

I think polarization is more nuanced than we make out - Pew's finding the Faith and Family Liberal to be a huge political group is tell, frex - but ignoring that there's also the way polarization actually works which is both through identification and vilification.

Absolutely, but would the crab-people system allow for that at all from what we see in the episode?

I know many people for whom neither Fox News nor Michael Moore appear to be perfectly cromulent sources of information.