I do love the ending of the Sherlock Holmes one, though, with steampunk Kang & Kodos.

My favorite moment in this ep is when the Simpsons family pretends to be willing to live with the mutants in peace and harmony, then pull out shotguns and shoot them down. It's just so delightfully cynical and mean-spirited.

"responsible for more spooge-clogged Model M keyboards than an appearance by Seven of Nine"

I always disliked Atticus, actually, because I felt like the book was trying way too hard to sell him as this paragon of virtue. When a story is too obvious with its efforts to make me like or dislike a certain character, my instinctive reaction is to feel the exact opposite way about them.

In my history classes he was mentioned, but was treated more as an appetizer for the Civil War rather than a meal in his own right.

Well, C is supposed to be the grade for "average".

*Ahem* People, people, this is a Great Job, Internet article. You're not supposed to talk gushingly about the subject material. You're supposed to complain incessantly that the article is horrible and that Great Job, Internet shouldn't exist.

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant? It'll force them to learn the meaning of the word "puissance", at any rate.

Wait, if I reach out to touch my idols, I can scrape off some free gold? Hells yeah, I'm doing that!

It might be considered too R-rated for a high school English class, but Catch-22 manages to be a classic and deal with highly important themes, while ALSO being an incredibly entertaining book.

I wouldn't necessarily eliminate it, but I would make it a requirement that you can't have kids read the play unless you're going to show them a performance of the play, too. Shakespearian language is SO much easier to understand when you've got actors performing it.

It's more that English teachers, at both the high school and college level, are obsessed with what's called "literary fiction": stories that are light on plot, high on introspective protagonists, and almost uniformly melancholy.

I thought The Amazing Spider-Man was actually pretty awesome, while ASM 2 had a lot of potential that was squandered by trying to cram too much into one movie.

After a while, doesn't it sound like he's just repeating a greeting from some vaguely Middle-Eastern language?

Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt should get a bottle episode prize for not just having a whole episode take place in one location, but having it all be a single, static shot.

I'm pretty sure all the Simpsons cast got those plaques LONG ago.

Do we need all those "louds"? The people are already here, we don't need to keep hustling them like this, do we?

They should have stuck to airing this commercial:

For me, it's The 100, Season 2. (Or, technically, the second half of Season 2, since the first half aired in 2014). It's been a long time since I've seen a show pull off the "make you love the characters, then put them through hell" trick quite as well as this show does. That we won't be getting any new episodes until…

Whether or not a critic likes a movie means next to nothing concerning whether you'll like it, yes. That's why it's important to read the whole review, though, and not just the letter grade, to see if the critics reasons for liking or disliking the movie are the same sorts of the things that make you like or dislike…