It may not be the reason for you, but Community fans were regularly coming over to the BBT reviews to take potshots.

Also, not everyone (even here) agrees with you over TBBT. It takes a lot of crap on the A.V. Club for daring to have aired against Community, but TBBT is a well-made multi-camera sitcom in an era dominated by single-camera shows. It's not to everyone's tastes, but what is?

They're both correct interpretations, though. The Ancient Ones are inspired by Lovecraft, no doubt, but they're also a metaphorical stand-in for the audience.

Agreed that a lot of those alleged references are a stretch. The Deadites, the Angry Molesting Tree and Fornicus are overt, specific references, as is the 50-Foot Woman from the behind-the-scenes footage. (I'm not familiar with "The Strangers," but I agree that they at least seem like a strong match for the Dolls.)…

This is exactly the rant I delivered to my wife during the commercial break. I've never before wished that I could get in an argument with Sheldon.

Except that catching a tray full of food is literally the very first super-speed stunt performed by the Silver Age Flash all the way back in 1956.

Standards and Practices "cries of horror" over Ellison's "Nackles" screenplay were well-justified.

Matheson was just plain wrong about "Button, Button." His original short story has a clever idea (a mysterious box with a button that, when pressed, will kill someone that the person "doesn't know"). But anyone who's at all familiar with "The Monkey's Paw" or, hell, "The Twilight Zone" knows how it's going to end. The…

Funny thing is that the "10 more" list is more notable than the top choices. How "Her Pilgrim Soul," "To See the Invisible Man" and "The Toys of Caliban" didn't make the top tier is beyond me. I'd add "A Message from Charity," "A Little Peace and Quiet," "A Small Talent for War," "Shelter Skelter," "Profile in Silver"…

I can vouch for that. We visited England for the first time during that debacle, and when my wife decided to mock throttle his likeness at Madame Tussaud's, I thought we'd catch hell. But people just laughed.

Not in the East Coast feed.

I've never understood the criticism that the references aren't niche enough. One of the first season episodes revolved entirely the 1960 George Pal version of "The Time Machine," complete with screen-accurate Morlocks. A fourth season episode was about them waiting in line for a revised version of "Raiders of the Lost…

The anecdote about the Helen Hunt "Buh-bye!" sketch didn't make sense to me; why would critics complain about recurring characters that hadn't yet recurred? I did a little digging, and found this New York Magazine article: http://nymag.com/arts/tv/fe…

I knew the "flaw" that Amy was going to bring up before she said it, as I have had this exact same conversation with a friend of mine. I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, when the guys figured out that the same is true of every Indiana Jones movie except, oddly enough, "Temple of Doom."

Loved "Psycho II." It gets a bit silly, what with everyone pretending to be "Mother" at some point in the narrative, but it's also a fun, twisty thriller in the vein of "Sleuth" or "Deathtrap." Furthermore, it makes Norman a sympathetic character; the tragedy of it all is that if everyone just had left him the hell…

I may regret stepping into this, but how exactly does the "Watchmen" movie miss the point of the story? The most common complaint about the film at the time was that (like the first "Harry Potter" flick) it was *too* slavish to the source material. (Aside from excising the squid, but that was a change for the better.)

I thought "Unbreakable" was decent to a point. The problem was that the only "twist" to the ending was that it was a three-act story of which we only saw two acts. In any other film, the reveal about Mr. Glass would provide the set-up for the dramatic confrontation; in "Unbreakable," the confrontation occurs via…

The teddy bear scene was the moment when I thought, "yes, this would've been an actual Avengers episode." Watch the Tara King episode "Stop Me If You've Heard This One"—about a group of deadly vaudevillians—if you doubt that teddy bear-clad villains aren't entirely in keeping with the show.

That is some premium nightmare fuel there, that is. That photo alone gives me the wiggins.

@ajk9hy Yeah, I know the temperature of the room here.That was my attempt to say, "Hey, I like the stuff you like, and also this thing you look down upon." They're two shows doing two different things, and both are well crafted in their own ways.