Counterpoint: the production values of any particular Key & Peele sketch blow everything ever done on Mr. Show right out of the water. Great cinematography doesn't necessarily make things funnier, but it is an indicator of overall quality IMO.

It's kind of a crime that Rockstar couldn't get him back to do Luther's voice for The Warriors. The replacement (Oliver Wyman) is *terrible*, and it really pulled me out of the game.

His Conan remake was an awful movie, but he was a pretty good Conan in it. Much more like Robert E. Howard's vision of the character than Arnold's laconic slab of beef. (And before anyone starts, Conan the Barbarian is like my third-favorite movie of all time; I'm just saying.)

And MIRACLES…is the way things ought to be.

Tracking the wily suburban clam on its quadrennial journey west.

"Also we won't have Brian Blessed back. That will save us hundreds of pounds on turkey legs and kegs of beer."

It's a freakish coincidence that I finished up my ongoing Blackadder watch-through just last night, in time to see this one for the first time. I agree with everyone that it's very well done and surprisingly heartfelt (there really isn't another way to feel about WWI other than "god, what an awful waste") but for…

Indeed, he was the science consultant in the latter half of TNG's run, so he has plenty of sci-fi cred.

Indeed, both the mom and Kennex have extremely 20th century (and thus, for 2042, seriously anachronistic) attitudes about the internet and what it's about. Kennex was probably born…well, right around now, actually, so there's no way that he doesn't know how important anonymity is to protestors in an era where the…

Shame about Chicago, though.

Also, the lights went out in Georgia, Chicago died, and they drove old Dixie down.

I felt like naming the victim "Aaron" wasn't an accident either, as if the writers were also trying to fold the Aaron Swartz tragedy into the story because of the involvement of hackers. Could have been a coincidence, but I think rolling out the "Justice For Aaron" photo collage at the end strongly suggests otherwise.

The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode he was on was roundly panned, but I felt it was 100% justified just because it gave some prop designer an excuse to make a mock-Andy Warhol portrait of Rob Huebel's face.

Thiht's ixcillent.

Sad to say, I'm the kind of extremely boring person who becomes desperately anxious when he owes people any money at all, so Kee's massive debts are a source of torment to me even without any consequences at all. He didn't pay that lady her $11,000! And he already owes $69,000 to the other guy! Plus five more hours…

I appreciated the contrast — this week's episode had the girls dressed down, next week they dress up.

"Meganegabar." The line you draw on a check after writing "Forty and 17/100" in the amount section, so that people can't put "and a million dollars" in the leftover space.

Fair enough. The fact that there was lots of judgement-free making out gave me great doubts about my hypothesis anyway.

It says something about the kind of show this is that our reviewer is deducting points for this week's episode because the show-runner failed to invest the breaking of a wine glass with the appropriate dramatic stakes.

I never watched Felicity, but I got the impression that "Madison Chooses" was spoofing Christian teen dramas, given the incredibly low stakes and the clearly drawn distinctions between the right choice and the wrong choice. Also the theme song was pretty God-y. But maybe I'm wrong.