I was 32 when I got married. I was 39 when I became a father. We had a house with enough spare rooms for up to three kids to have their own, and the mortgage was our only long-term debt. It was "go home day," and I was loading our baby in the baby carrier into the kid-hauling SUV that we had purchased three years…

Oh, my lord—Robin and Barney are going to buy Marshall and Lily's house in the suburbs and raise their baby in it!

I took a dump on your mother's head during pilates and left the premises… oh, yeah!

I graduated from high school in 1983. Kasey Kasem was my Sith Master. A few years ago, "We Built" came on the radio when I was only 2 blocks from home, and rather than lose the flashback joy of the moment, I cranked up the radio and kept on driving into the country, going way too fast around curves in my tall 4x4 SUV,…

Yes, thank you. Herschel's behavior has been patient and rational in the face of many difficulties. Zack busting on him and Dale and Glenn through a lens of extreme sensitivity to anything that might be construed as sexism, racism, or paternalism is unjustified.

Yes! They took bad karaoke, a modestly amusing shadow puppet bit, and paint fumes, and turned them into a soaring mystic opera of fun and laughter—just because! That's why I love this show so fiercely.

I have noted and accepted that Todd and I often have divergent desires and expectations with regard to Community, but this time he was just plain wrong. Annie was not being infantilized. She was struggling with the idea of being the grownup in the apartment while still enjoying her friendship with Troy and Abed. If…

I agree—it could have risen to something profound if there was a mystery behind the myth revealed, or if solving the puzzle accomplished something cool rather than just resetting their world to normal.

I'd like to make a documentary about the director of this film. It'd be a real feather in my cap, and I'd call it Maccarone.

Man, I hated that episode of E.R. Lucy was the sweetest little thing. You wondered why Carter's succumbing to his wounds was being drawn out so long, then they show why they have been building the tension—Lucy lying there dying in front of his eyes. I distinctly remember shouting "NOOOOO!" at the TV. That shot ripped…

I'm also partial to, "It's like Sputnik—spherical, but quite pointy in parts."

Okay, film crit, lit discourse, witty obscure quotes, yadda yadda—all well and good, but all I want to know is, is this really a thing?!?!?!? Somewhere in the world, do people really participate in and place bets on this "game"? I thought it was just one of those cultural stereotypes that was either wildly outdated,…

Noel, you sly card—"peak Dante" elicited volcanic laughter, then you probed my funny bone with how Spielberg was alienated by CE3K!

The review makes it seem marginally better than the previews, which imply that Jovovich replaces D'Artagnan as the quippy, grrrrrl-power fourth Musketeer. Given the revisionist awfulness of remakes these days, I wasn't at all surprised that this might be the case. Not that the actual plot is much less awful in its…

I think the problem with any episode or movie where Data experiences emotion, including the ones where he's actually in the role of Lore, is that Spiner seemed only capable of playing him with a really broad and negative tone. Not to be unkind, but I think Data's (proper to the character) lack of affect helped mask a…

Absolutely agree, John. It was great to see Larry again, even though it was sad that they telegraphed his appearance in the opening credits. Although, that made me think Larry was behind Tavian, which would have made sense and opened up interesting possibilities. Maybe that's the fake-out they were going for, but it…