That quote certainly applies to referees.

"Ah, the pity. Fated to drift forever through the void as gravity's plaything. Oh, cruel fate, to be thusly boned."

I like A Pharaoh to Remember, but somehow it always seems to be among the episodes I forget the most frequently. Another example of that (great but somehow I forget it a lot) is Future Stock.

The hours?

The biggest gripe I had with that episode is what as a naïve, highly competitive English 14-year-old (who admired Harold Larwood's very comparable Bodyline Series tactics) I thought was wussiness on the part of the characters for penalising/villifying Leela for the seemingly cunning strategy of preventing the opposing…

I disagree, but that sequence of words you said made perfect sense.

You just won't stop with the social commentary. Also, why must you analyse everything with your relentless logic? I also like how much more decent Fry comes off as than Michelle.

Too unpleasant, if you ask me. Tear him down and start again.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Pharaoh…suddenly died.

At best he was a B+ dog.

List of my worst episodes, or at least my least memorable ones: 1) I Dated a Robot 2) The Cyber House Rules 3) Love and Rocket (except for Lrrr and Ndnd's stance on 'wuv'. Everything else (in the first run, at least) is gold. As is The Late Philip J Fry.

Perhaps they thought they'd say "Jonny Zero will sell even better than our previous show!"

Just before that line is one of the relatively few examples of high success in finding comedy in the boring without making it overly boring in the process. It's also entertainingly alliterative and has just the right amount of absurd punctuation-for-emphasis (and there's even some iambic tetrameter in there for good…

That's my philosophy.

I agree, but you got the bit just after the opening bracket the wrong way round.

Catch 22: If classic Futurama wasn't as good as it was, I'd be able to describe it using Lrrr's opinion of Planet Express's Single Female Lawyer episode. But if it wasn't as good as it was, I wouldn't want to quote that episode.

I personally feel that a big problem with the Simpsons' decline was the rise in popularity of Family Guy. The Simpsons started trying to emulate edgy, adult humour, thinking it to be the new thing, when they should have simply stuck to their original premise of showing the potential for benign (or at least…

"Crimes of the Hot" also has an excellent story structure.

I'm English and have never seen the wearing of the poppy as a symbol of anything other than 'remember the horrors of WWI and other wars lest we forget and repeat them.' The idea that 'by wearing one you're subscribing to a pro-war philosophy simply because some people [none of whom I've ever heard of or come across…

Showing an image of a poppy field doesn't constitute telling anyone what to think. That requires words. The creators were expressing their opinion.

George IV was king for 10 years (after the 9 he spent as regent). Enough time for Blackadder to enjoy himself.