Hooray for the Ballarat factory!

Like you say, Phil Connors was just trying to survive and keep himself sane in a situation he could not understand or control. Phil's mastery and manipulation of the day wasn't always about himself, he tried to help people too by going to the restaurant to give the choking man the Heimlich and tried and failed many…

I think the biggest indication of how long he's in there is how good he gets at the piano. I do like that in the opening up to the first suicide we're with him consistently. Once he starts killing himself the movie starts skipping forward. A thousand years seems unnecessarily long and I think even putting any kind of…

So AV Club reviews have started refering to characters instead of actors now? I know this was always a frequently asked question/point of contention but I liked the old standard.

There's that but there's also his there was his odd line of thought to defend Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape that economists don't commit sex crimes. The charges against Strauss-Kahn were dropped but Stein's defense was odd and easily refuted.

I think it's a little from Column A, a lot from Column B. He got crazier and had a bigger podium.

Noice noice!

I liked Win Ben Stein's Money. I was thinking they should bring it back, though Ben Stein is crazy now. Maybe Win Ken Jennings' Money. Wikipedia tells me there was already a "Can You Beat Ken?" board game but I can't watch a board game.

Oh goddamnit. I meant "inelegant," spelled it wrong and selected the wrong spell check selection. So I was far from intelligent or modest. But certainly still inelegant. Sorry @avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus

In this movie Josh Helman will be playing Danny Huston playing Brian Cox as William Stryker.

Thanks. That's what I was trying to say but I was…how do you say, intelligent.

I enjoy the repetition and absurdity but I was disappointed when I read why it exists. The show was running short, most of Al Jean's shows ran short, and so they used the dialog they'd already recorded and just decided to loop it. It's the same thing with Dental Plan/Lisa Needs Braces. I have much more respect for the…

It's worth noting that they structured the disclaimers around the time when people would be listening to something else so that when they essentially channel surfed between programs they'd come in right in the middle of the good stuff. It was designed to get attention. Though once you start listening there are notes…

Is this any better than the Radiolab episode: http://www.radiolab.org/sto…
It did show that it could happen again when it was translated for new audiences.

He's also got a new book coming out from Avatar "Providence" which, as I understand it, is a followup to Neonomicon. Lots of people are on a Lovecraft kick… and I'm not interested at all. This stuff does nothing for me and I wish the fad would die out.

Daredevil #32. I loved it for the same reasons most people have been mentioning. I really enjoy this book but I’m not at all pleased that it’s getting relaunched as Daredevil volume 4. If as we suspect it’s the same book with the same creators, I don’t want to pay an extra the same comic. If it’s an extra dollar and…

That was my hope. Ah well.

"You Here With Me"? Sold!

She's awesome. I'd never heard that story before.

True. Like you said, she was all we "needed." It was just nice to have familiar faces around her. And whenever she wasn't involved in the actual mystery, in those "bookend" episodes, those were generally blah.