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But I'm A Cheerleader is a solid choice for any weekend, regardless of your proclivities. (Although I must say I found Natasha Lyonne's climactic cheer at the end, while very sweet, pretty lackluster as cheers go.)

Donna Bowman! Glad you are back. I fondly remember your Sports Night reviews and the subsequent discussions about Sorkin and his Sorkinisms. :)

"Something we're making for the Americans. It's called a ghetto-blahrstr."

It really improves that horrible diner uniform Angie wears, that's for sure.

I was in college in 1995, and the Web was indeed a thing. Granted, it was mostly still images and text, and e-commerce was still a gleam in some capitalist's eye, but Steve could easily have put up a page for his store with a guestbook for people to sign, announce sales, and do other community-building things for the

I have to admit that the hip-hop angle is hardest for me to relate to as well, because I was one of those rock kids who couldn't understand why anybody would want to listen to Public Enemy or 2 Live Crew when Megadeth and Soundgarden were still putting out new material.

"A man's wit is never lost on me." = Yeah, I heard your joke. It wasn't funny.

…it would also surprise me if ABC could secure the rights to so many great hip-hop songs, but not Throwing Copper.

Fumero is actually her married name, per IMDb. She was born Melissa Gallo, and is of Cuban descent. But her husband (David Fumero, of One Life to Live fame) is also Cuban. And ten years older than her, the cradle-robber!

Pretty much every Frank plot is utterly contrived. What was it, two or three seasons ago that a wealthy gay couple decided (apropos of not much) to turn him into a tool for activism upon meeting him once? I don't disagree that it feels like those plots come from a different show (maybe even a different genre of

In my experience, Amy and Rosa are the two bodies hardest to associate with real-life cops. Most of them look like Hitchcock and Scully after a few years of long nights and bad meals. I have run into the occasional Terry, but gorgeous, slender Latina detectives mostly seem to be a TV thing, alas.

I spent most of the morning trying to psychoanalyze Boyle, and what I've come up with is — he's basically a capital-M Mom in a cop's body. Unflaggingly positive and enthusiastic, loyal beyond question, endlessly supportive of his friends, obsessed with romance and food, incapable of being cool in any way whatsoever…

Boyle is far too gentle a soul to be a secret serial killer. Unfathomably, relentlessly creepy because of his almost-nonexistent boundaries, yes. But not a serial killer.

And maybe the broken Absorbicron affected her mind just enough to open it to the possibility. She wasn't as overcome as Carter Hall by the interface, but that doesn't mean it didn't have an impact.

I think part of the reason it was so egregious is that it came hard on the heels of a Holy-Shit-Miracle catch — the kind of play that completely deflates a defense and leaves them reeling. Considering that even when he was "stuffed" Lynch was getting positive yardage, a punch in the mouth was the right play to call.

I think what Cuban meant to say was that the perfect strategy is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning.

Dissenting view here: I was dreading The Two Towers because it took me three tries to make it through LOTR — and I speak as a guy who grew up on fantasy and was reading Michael Moorcock and Robert E. Howard in first grade — and The Two Towers was always where I got bogged down. Imagine my surprise at experiencing a

Similarly, the rape scene in Lord Foul's Bane has been described to me as particularly brutal because it goes on for pages and pages. It's actually two short paragraphs, although the consequences of the act stretch through three novels, and rightly so.

The only aspect of the episode-wide motif I didn't catch was the descent of the Wexler ladies into the manhole mirroring Abbi's descent into Jeremy's…man hole. (I'm kind of an Abbi about things like that, I guess…)

It was kind of an ugly character shift for Jeremy, who has previously been understanding and forgiving of Abbi's neurotic disposition. Even when he's first confronted with the knock-off, he calmly explains why he has a problem with it, and then cruelly tosses a character-based insult at her, when he has to know that