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I often think that 'not crazy, just ignorant' would make a good defence, at least as far as soundbites go.

I was born in 1988 and while a child I heard that song once, on a TV in the background of a Hard Rock Café in Berlin in 2004. I thought 'that's a somewhat memorable song', then dismissed it. When I first saw Gump Roast a few years later (an episode I disliked somewhat for its canonicising of Kang & Kodos, among other…

Isn't it $867.43 or some such?

Yes to your first paragraph (my favourite episode - if I can truly be said to be able to choose, which is doubtful - is The Girl in the Fireplace). And I just noticed that FOB is a rather appropriate acronym for its particular episode…

I still wonder about the ramifications of dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you. 'Between now and the time the show becomes unprofitable' looks now like an amazing bit of prescience.

I'll try to put this non-confrontationally: "Blink" has both a flashy plot structure and an emotional climax/thematic depth. Sally Sparrow is an excellently constructed character - you really feel for her losses and struggle to understand and survive; they have an authenticity in their simplicity and conciseness.…

10 acknowledges the naming contrivance. 'Lazarus, of course.' Which begs the question: does 10 think the universe likes these contrivances? It's subtler than the 'Project Icarus' episode of Smallville, where the guy talks about how 'When I named this (superhero-registration-act) Project Icarus I didn't expect it to…

Personally I think the apex of Tennant's run, if there is one, is The Fires of Pompeii, at least as far as his character goes. As far as episode quality goes, you can't improve on The Girl in the Fireplace or Blink.

What's normal to us will amaze them.

Re my age of consent comment: I've just looked it up and there are far more states where it's 16 than I expected (not least in a country where so much of the time the minimum legal drinking age is 3 years older than here in the UK). Perhaps my skewed perception on the former can be attributed to the fact that the AoC…

1) As I understand it the age of consent here in the UK is 16 and in the US it's 18 (Do individual states differ? I'm not sure). Perhaps this explains somewhat why I find the idea of 16-year-old unimpeachability as unreasonable as you do.
2) It's a disturbing thought that there are high numbers of the kind of women in…

That's going to be a problem with an actor/character who looks somewhere indeterminate between 28 and 48. To provide a seemingly age-equivalent relationship (not that I think there's a need to do so if he has a relaish) you'd need to go for someone who looks to be in their late thirties, with no such character…

Your point 1: I was yelling at the screen throughout Glenn and Tara's emotional moment. THIS IS NOT THE TIME OR THE PLACE FOR THIS! FOR GOD'S SAKE FOCUS ON WHAT'S HAPPENING AROUND YOU!!!

He's physically fit, attractive, and doesn't seem to have the emotional maturity of your typical Western pre-ZA 40-year-old. He and Beth aren't incompatible unless one or both of them thinks they are.

If 0.1% of the US population are still alive, that's 300,000. If eventually they reform society enough that there are 100 major societies across the continental US, that's 3,000 people per society. If society is 50% male, 50% female, and 2% are gay, that then is 30 lesbians per society. Therefore, if Tara does what…

It would only be gross if either a) Daryl saw Beth as a daughter figure or b) Beth saw Daryl as a father figure. Or both. I see no evidence for any. And I had no idea Norman Reedus was out of his twenties until Zack Handlen told me. Not to mention the fact that Beth's actor is in her late twenties. Either way, a)…

I was wondering when someone would get around to adapting that Revenge of the Killer Vegetables book I read as a child. (A book which actually exists, despite how ludicrous it sounds.)

Am I the only one who saw no evidence that they beat the guy to death? They beat him, obviously, but when did he die? I don't recall that happening.

Former UK home and foreign secretary and current MP = Jack Straw. Major leader of Peasants' Revolt 1381 = Jack Straw. Granted it's probably not the latter guy, but Jack Straw is indeed a common name.