There is no possible way to make this make sense. Please stop trying. It is an absurd exercise which, in a perfect world, would serve largely to delight and entertain in its absurdity, but it instead has mostly just made everyone pointlessly annoyed at one another. You can't judge stories against each other like they…

Man, the ease with which people forget I even exist on a feature WHICH I HAVE BEEN CONTRIBUTING TO BI-WEEKLY FOR ITS ENTIRE EXISTENCE makes me super excited to keep going on my own.

This is probably why he always comes across as the most charming of the group. Is there anyone who _doesn't_ like Michael Palin? (I'm mean, I'm sure there is somewhere, but is this a person we can trust?)

Well, yeah, I didn't mean my entry as a _criticism_ of cringe comedy. Just saying, it's not for me, the same way some people have a hard time watching Hannibal because of all the gore.

Palin apparently also thought the CS sketch was hilarious.

Like I said, I got the info from the annotated scripts. It could be wrong, though.

I love Cleese, but he was apparently not the easiest person to work with—he actually informed the BBC censors about one of Eric Idle's sketches (wine-tasters who were actually marveling over "wee-wee"), because he didn't think it was up to standards. But then, Cycling Tour wasn't originally written for Flying Circus,…

Titus Groan and Gormenghast are incredible novels. Very slow, but the prose is pretty much unlike anything; I can't imagine any visual medium doing the material justice.

Not according to the IMDB episode listing, anyway.

You may want to lawyer up. His defense seems pretty impregnable.

_Dammit_. Fixed. Thank you.

Well, I'm just making shit up as a I go, so I'm sure I'm reading it wrong.

Oh man, thank god you said "no offense." For a minute there, I thought you were an asshole.

Well, you could technically just change the name in your post. Although I guess if you've already gutted yourself, that's no longer an option.

When I was in junior high, my sister (who was three years younger than I was) got a dollhouse for Christmas one year. My mom made me promise that I wouldn't write any scary stories about it; I'd started writing my own fiction, and while none of it was very good, I was pretty much aces at terrifying 10 year-olds. I…

I guess we can assume he read "infertility" less as "I can't have kids" and more as "MY MANHOOD HAS BEEN INSULTED."

<shrug> Yes, I get the irony—he loses the one thing he could do—but it just didn't strike me that hard. I mean, the dude cheated that much, we don't ever really know if he was a good jockey in the first place. Maybe once he calms down he can start a wrestling career or something.

I won't spoil which I picked, but I will say that I thought both episodes were pretty great. (I'd never really watched much of Girls, so the vibe of it threw me off at first, and I tweeted about how the characters seemed like "aliens" to me. But the more I watched it, the more familiar they became, and "Beach House"…

I shall correct. I appreciate your polite and accurate editorial advice.

It did mention it, I think, but I picked what looked like the most recent title, since it didn't seem all that relevant to the discussion.