I read this review several weeks ago and have only now caught up on the episode. I'm staggered by how much less spa/fat-people mocking there actually was in this episode than the review seems to suggest: reading the review weeks ago, I assumed the episode was more or less one long caricature. But apart from the fact…

You think Dean's still good-looking? At this point he's the most beat up I've ever seen him: unshaven and looking about as close to completely broken as it's possible to get. I wouldn't hit that unless it was in sympathy.

"They're screwing with the wrong people. I'm really going to chew them out about it."

Cannibalism actually exists in the real world, and has been practiced by various tribes with regularity, as I understand it. Zombies, on the other hand, have never as far as I'm aware appeared in reality at all, unless you count hypnotism or the African origins the word 'zombi' apparently has (unless Philip Pullman…

The reviewer's misspelling of Gareth towards the end makes me wonder how DJ Qualls would have done in that role.

I'd like to see Beth establish herself over the course of Season 5a as the new Queen of the American West, leader of a society that says fuck you to zombies, burns down threatening houses, and sings a lot. That way there would be an interesting dynamic when the rest of the cast build themselves up as the Grand High…

Hershel's dream can still work out. The rest of the cast, Rick especially, simply need to realise that in this new world, murder is just one of those occasional chores you may have to put on your calendar, like growing vegetables, reinforcing perimeters, admitting societal immigrants (they need to become part of…

That Matt Groening sure does like to reference burning down bars for insurance.

The reason it's sad is because it's based on a true story, apparently. Possibly more than one.

If it's a crime to mention a Simpsons episode from season 9 or after on the AV Club, then I'm guilty. If it's a crime to think season 9 is great and that Simpson Tide is the best episode ever, then I'm guilty of that, too. And if it's a crime to publish a comment defending an episode with a speech paraphrased from an…

Last Exit to Springfield is certainly a contender. I would also potentially go for Lemon of Troy for being a funny microcosm of the Simpsons universe and its dynamics. Also, Simpson Tide is my favourite episode, and captures the show's potential for zaniness. The only antidote to a zany scheme is an even zanier scheme!

*cough*

I thought if anyone knew where to get some Tang, it'd be you.

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They weren't sane people; they were the remains of computerised space probes that *collided* with sane people.

And now to ask a question that has plagued me these fifteen years: what in the heck is a 'rank out'?

Friends wasn't about TV, Core Concept. It was about rebellion, about relationship and sitcom upheaval!

Since when did Grandad from Only Fools and Horses become a professor, travel into the future, or start spelling his actor's name wrong?

I like how it turned out that one can argue that that was a true statement. Continuity five (which is where you high five, leave, meet up ten years later, tell the same joke, and high five again).

If only I could like this twice for your use of 'mah' instead of 'my'… wait, I know: *fires shotgun into air repeatedly* ACCURACY! We got ACCURACY here!