It definitely is Nibbler! It wasn't a retcon.

Yes! I've always thought the 'Tolkien takes half a page to describe a tree' meme is a load of BS: he actually uses a relatively light tough when it comes to physical descriptions of characters and places. The trade negotiations thing from Star Wars is a good example too. They're a loosely-described front, which is…

Jar Jar doesn't wink at the camera, and if he had done so, and if he had done so as a 'fuck you' to the audience, he would have been perfectly within his rights to do so: the level of hatred Lucas gets simply for making the prequels is a fucking bizarre example of a huge group of people having no sense of perspective…

When I first saw this episode I was 11, and the scene where Zoidberg cuts off Fry's arm really shook me; I felt a similar way in that episode of the Simpsons where Homer getting his stomach torn open by a badger. For me Futurama/The Simpsons were just dramatic/realistic enough that characters suffering (temporary)…

I understood that reference!

This is one of my favorite Futurama lines, but so much of it is in Billy West's delivery.

The eagles thing isn't funny: it's like saying 'Ho ho, how come Bruce Banner's trousers stretch when he transforms, eh?' It wasn't clever to begin with, and it's become the go-to joke for every second Lord of the Rings article anywhere.

Despite not having any knowledge of Bonanza, I've always thought the bit in the mall where the Indian says, "You know, on the series, we were always trying to kill the Cartwrights, but it looks like Father Time took care of that for us, right? Am I right folks?" and elicits boos is an incredible line. The guy's so…

I like the sequence itself, but the Others suddenly went from spooky, omniscient zealots to suburbanites in a cult. There's rich stuff to mine in that reveal - and they did - but at the time I found it a little bit disappointing.

Season 2 will always be my favourite season of lost. There are a few shaky bits, but I think it's the season which best mixes the first season's creepy atmosphere and the later seasons' what-the-fuckery.

"that’s why it’s using actual physical sets that actors can touch and see without computers—just like how movies were made back at the turn of the century"

I thoroughly doubt it was intentional, and it didn't occur to me nor any of the other people I watched it with.

This made me laugh so loudly I woke up my flatmate through the wall. Kudos to you Eat Up Martha, kudos!

'Weirdly cheap'? I agree that this one didn't look like it cost much money, but I was struck by how amazing the first two episodes of this series have looked. The dinosaur, Victorian London, the half-man's internal clockwork, the Dalek ship and the asteroid field etc, all amazing. It's a BBC programme that has to…

I think it makes sense that Han and so on don't put much stock by Jedi and the Force -

I wish I could like this twice for The Shining reference.

I wouldn't say I'm sick of the OT aesthetic, but I think there's a real risk of them (not the folk behind Rebels, but Lucasfilm) overdoing it. I think it'd be best if we never saw some things - say Hoth, Boba Fett, Tatooine, and Sith - in any of the new films. Leave them be.

My point was that while all films date, some films date extremely poorly. Two extreme examples - The Godfather, looks like a film made in the early 70s, but it wouldn't be fair to call it dated. Epic Movie, made in 2007, on top of being terrible, relies on knowledge of popular culture of the six months before it was…

Whoah hold on there. I'm glad that the Prequel Era's not getting chucked under a bus too, and I think the negative feeling those films get is massively overblown (and the hate directed at George Lucas is fucking disturbing).

When it comes to the original series -