This episode is one of many examples I have seen of Stephen Hawking appearing in an animated comedy, yet I have never seen him in live action sitcoms. Is this because the writers can simply put his lines through their version of his voice synthesiser, and don't require him in person for animated shows or does he…

"Are ya' prone to havin' blackouts?"

@avclub-20f4f2cc6aa2571698eba0d9da789586:disqus You say it that way because at the time, Americans wanted to make Aluminium to seem like a classy metal, so pronounced it in a similar way to Platinum by aping its ending, rather than being like most elements which end in -ium.

I will go and watch this film, if only to support David Wain in hopes of him making another season of Wainy Days soon.

It's hard to say which crap-portmanteau I like more, this or The Simpsons' craptacular.

Out of interest, is anyone watching the episodes for the first time
along with these reviews, as I am, or are you all long-time fans who are
revisiting the show?

Isn't that the picture you called a mixture of fantasy and crap.
Yes, I dubbed it fantacrap

Especially when your original comment gets pushed back to page 2 or beyond and when people reply to it, you can only see single comments and not the whole thread.

Agree with your point about Miranda's watchability. I think part of what makes me like the show so much is the self awareness you mentioned, in that it pulls off a complete parody of the generic multi-camera sitcom while still enjoying being one itself and not seeming as if the writers/actors feel to good for it.

There is also the Judge's zinger

As an end of the season special could you review A Star is Burns, it would be a nice way to transition from The Critic to The Simpsons reviews.

Yeah, I am pretty sure it was guaranteed number 1 even before the SNL performance,  its not like there has been any release recently that was going to match it for sales.

To be fair, for Sherlock there are three 90 minute episodes a year, meaning
there is more of it (in minutes) in a year than most scripted British shows.

After going through seasons 1-4 over the past few months, I am worried whether having to wait for episode airings for season 5 will change my enjoyment of the show.

I know one exception doesn't prove your rule wrong but I recently caught up with Breaking Bad, watching all the episodes over about 10 weeks. However unlike what you predicted, Fly is without doubt my favourite episode, yet when I talked about it with my friends that watched the show week to week they were suprised,…

The puppet show was called Alligator Boots and starred Kanye West. There used to be a 10min promo for it on youtube but that seems to have disapeared. All I can really remember was that the makers seemed to think it would be the next The Simpsons. Lack of news on it for quite a while would suggest no-one picked it up.

I know US networks remake UK shows instead of just showing the original because they need a much higher episode count. But their recent remake choices seem very odd (Friday Night Dinners, Free Agents) The UK originals of these shows are only moderately popular.

@Scrawler2:disqus I hate to correct, but Downton Abbey is an ITV programme not BBC. Easy to mistake it for BBC though, as ITV very rarely put out anything of quality.

Except in the Uk and most of Europe. I am pretty sure CD singles were easily available up until downloading music became the norm.

All old Ted said was that she would end up going to Japan, which was paid off a few episodes later when she worked for a jokey Japanese news show which she co-hosted with a chimp. But yeah in general they have built up a few too many teases which haven't paid off yet or have perhaps been jettisoned.