Or when Bart says "Can I slog off school tomorrow dad? There's a pain in me gulliver" or something like that in A Streetcar Named Marge.

He talks about releasing the hounds in season 1 as well, ushering the employees off the house following the picnic in There's No Disgrace Like Home.

I think that Hank's Contract really is when the show found itself, but definitely Out of the Loop and the Talk Show highlight what they want to do with the show.

She then continues on to do an animal version of those Andrew Lloyd Weber reality shows.

I think Doug's past should have been the A-plot for the episode, it was a joke that kept on giving.

Did anyone else see
Amelia Pond and Inara Serra in the hall of heads in jars?

Could anybody recommend some of his films to get started with?
I've got Bigger than Life, but I haven't watched it yet. I have heard a lot about Ray as an auteur from documentaries about Golden Age Hollywood and he seems like an interesting study of subverting the studio system.

It was really weird
When you heard the lines that were clearly dubbed in or re-shot after the fact in order to make this the third episode and not the second episode. For example, that part at the end where they make nods to the villain from the second episode.

I agree, get Adam Reed.

The thing that always bugs me about Bart's friend falls in love is that Milhouse seems to be acting a couple of years older than is appropriate throughout his arc in the episode. Homer's plot is absolutely hilarious, as is the brilliant Raiders parody they open the episode with, but the Milhouse plot always annoys me…

the last 10 episodes of season 3, plus seasons 4 and 5 of The Wire in three days, only stopping to make food and sleep.

Felt like it was more of a late-period Simpsons episode
The lame pop-culture gags plus a few good one-liners is classic late-period "Simpsons", which is sad as Futurama has ran so many fewer episodes than the Simpsons before taking a down-turn.

Jason Gann wrote this episode
Something that bears mentioning at least, as he clearly understands a lot about Wilfred as a character, and I think his understanding of Wilfred was what made the dog being raped jokes funny where they could have fallen very flat.

Season 4. I had a 30+ hour marathon over a couple of days where all I did was watch seasons 3,4, and 5 of the Wire. Season 4 grabbed me because of the ability to portray the teenagers so realistically, as well as the effective development of the Marlo plot. The stuff they do with McNulty in season 4 is fascinating as…

I also made it about a minute in.

I'll put my hat in the ring for the season 2 finale. The episode coming up and the finale are strong contenders as well, as is the kind of obvious choice of the road trip episode of season 1

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Ed
What's the general consensus on Ed as a character? Personally I find her very annoying, but it could just be me.

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Yes. I recently upgraded from 4tb to 6tb of storage, simply because I can't really delete so many of my favourite shows. Also I have a ton of movies I've been meaning to get around to at some point, but haven't quite gotten there yet.