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"No, Monty, I won't. Not until you step back from the brink of insanity."

I'm somewhat removed from the sensationalism of these episodes, since I first saw them in syndicated reruns rather than when they premiered.

I could see it working as the mini-series covers the collapse of civilization and everyone traveling cross country, while the movie covers the clash of the two new civilizations, with a "how we got here" narration at the beginning. Basically, have the mini-series be like a prequel, just a prequel that comes out first.

Especially since intuition is such a big part of his stories. Sometimes it's explained as ESP or divine intervention or somesuch, but most of King's books have characters just KNOW things in some ineffable way . . . which really doesn't translate well in a visual medium.

The child actor issue could also be avoided by making an animated adaptation.

To bad that kid kept bothering Kareem while he was trying to fly the plane.

And, notably, the very first interaction we see between Burns and Homer (in "Homer's Odyssey") opens with Burns telling Homer, "At last we meet", which Homer seems slightly confused by. Which makes sense if they'd actually met many times before.

Episode that made me cry the most:

Count me as someone who loved Greatest Hits to pieces the first time around. More than anything else, going into such an inevitably dangerous season finale, it was nice to have flashbacks that emphasized the GOOD parts of a character's life for a change.

Hundreds of Simpsons scholars have devoted the prime years of their lives to discovering if that line was a reference to some obscure movie, tv show, or theoretical physicist. All have failed.

I'm sure Bender would find talking to Marvin hysterical.

Dude, your puritanical views on intrafamilial sexuality are harshing my mellow.

The writers really hit on a genius conceit by making the leader of the Others a compulsive liar: the person in the best position to know the Island's secrets is someone who will always prefer spinning complicated lies to telling the truth. The cabin scene wouldn't have worked with any other character in the place of

There's a bit of a difference there between AfterMASH (set 30 years in the past) and Agent Carter (set 70 years in the past). The latter is a time period almost no one watching is going to be familiar with outside of history books and old movies. The former is a time period that a lot of the people watching the show

For me the funniest moment in these episodes was how the stock price kept going up or down during Fry's speech depending on what words he had just said.

It seems weird to me that people would try to copy Spielberg's style, since I've always thought he was a pretty eclectic director without one particular style.

What if the outbreak of zombieism coincides with a natural disaster, like an earthquake or a hurricane, that leaves a lot of dead bodies around to turn into zombies, and disrupts the government's ability to operate effectively in the area?
Of course, that would only really work on a local level.

Really, I don't think the problem was Elena being a vampire. The problem was she spent pretty much all of Season 4 with her free will compromised so that they could extend the love triangle for another year. Elena's character development never really recovered from that.

Yep. Also, since the ring involved your spirit on the Other Side finding its way back to your body, it's unclear if the ring even still works post-Other Side destruction.

Anyone else want the series finale to show Elena waking up and discovering she's in the post-apocalyptic wilderness of The 100?