In The Stand, when Larry is contemplating entering the long dark tunnel, he fears he'll be "strangled by the walking dead". One heck of a big coincidence if this was not indeed an homage to that.

***Correction***

Now *that's* sarcasm.

It'll be good practice for next year when we can blast across them in jet-powered, monkey-navigated and it goes on like this.

AV Club Simpsons classic reviews?! What kind of country-fried rube is still impressed by those?!

Parodies I've seen of Shatner make him sound like a younger David Attenborough, who is easy enough to imitate, at least for me: you just make yourself sound upper-class and speak in short, quietly excited bursts.

Hugh Laurie gets a lot of credit and is believable to my non-American ears; Sonya Walger in Flashforward seems convincing 75% of the time (except when her character uses words like 'control'). As a nation it seems we don't like the letter O as much as you do, given how relatively little time we spend saying the short…

I hope you don't mind that I heard the second half of your comment in 40s-newsreel-announcer voice.

Blink is like what would happen if a real person with very little money finds themselves in a situation which is pants-wettingly terrifying in its realism and in and of itself.

"I'm the fucking Doctor! Make the fuck peace or fuck the fuck off!"

I enjoy this episode's diatribes about Dalek would-be 'redemption', inequality and love enough to forgive the pseudoscience of the lightning-strike situation. The only thing that might stop me rewatching it is the retrospective realisation that the American accents in it are indeed pretty dang awful. In 2007 I was 19,…

Carol knows walkers don't suffer, but she knows that people do. Even if walker-Lizzie was rendered 'docile', she's still a decomposing corpse: Carol has precedent for considering exposing the healthy living to disease to be less desirable than disposing of dead bodies.

Despite my earlier use of the word, there's no such thing as a 'harmless' walker: even if they can't bite or scratch you, a) they might be dangerous in other ways, b) they're decomposing corpses.

What about Alan?

What about the good name of back rooms? We British nerds don't tend to have basements.

But this is not the afterlife. So how can anyone commenting in it not exist? If I am wrong, may God strike me down before I finish this com

If it wasn't for my respect for genuine trauma victims I'd insert a joke here about it being traumatic just to have watched Two and a Half Men around Season 8.

Perhaps, but that's just fantastic racism.

I didn't realise he had access to Zaphod Beeblebrox's time-travel technology.

What's your stance on neck-beards?