Did that movie ever explain why Tommy Lee Jones had an Irish accent and Jeff Bridges didn't, even though they were both supposed to be Irishmen?

I don't think you can make a better Hulk movie than the Norton Hulk.  And it's not all that good a movie.

That's not really a comic setpiece, though, it's more of a sight gag.  And it is the funniest thing that's ever happened.  Along with everything else Mrs. Featherbottom does and says (it's kind of amazing all those jokes are in only two episodes).

I never thought AD would have worked as a movie anyway, most of the humor came from callbacks and call-forwards that were built up over hours of material.  You can't do that in a movie, so all the callbacks would have been references to jokes already set up on the series.

Heh, I noticed that too - didn't Kenny wear actual Braves and Yankees gear in the first episode?

If they wanted to keep the show running, they really should have ended the episode differently.  While Kenny's alive, too many important elements of his character's journey were resolved.  The only way to continue the show from this point would be to backtrack and undo all that character growth — i.e., pick up with…

The actual game of baseball is never discussed in depth on this show, but most aspects of Kenny's career haven't been all that ridiculous.  He was a closer in the majors (shown consistently in the opening montage during the pilot) and a starting pitcher in Mexico.  It makes sense that the Mexican team, which was…

The original lineup of Guns N Roses went through the fairly typical progression from democracy to dictatorship — early on the songwriting was much more of a group effort, with Axl mostly contributing lyrics and vocal melodies, Slash and Izzy writing all of the famous riffs, and Adler and Duff writing the parts for…

Well, like most of us, I laughed several times during the plantation episode (it probably helped that I was blazed out my mind), but I thought it was clearly the weakest episode in a series that hadn't had a clunker to date.

30 Rock is what it is.  Eastbound and Down is at its absolute weakest when it's a wacky joke machine, because it's really a character-driven drama in disguise.  When the humor goes too far over the top (like, say, Ashley Schaffer living on a plantation with a drag geisha and a cannon), it undermines the drama when the…

Season *2* was the most cartoonish?  How about a police major creating an entire drug fiefdom involving dozens of cops and hundreds of inhabitants without anyone finding out for months; Omar and Brother Mouzone doing their Spider-Man and Doc Ock team-up to kill Stringer Bell; Omar's grandma getting her crown shot off…

Also, for a guy who wrote 60 hours of drama that revolved around demonstrating the strength of human intellect in all its varieties, David Simon seems to have a pretty snobbish view of the people who like his show.  I mean, he's earned the right to be an elitist, but considering how much screen time Simon invested in…

Everything rounds up to 50 when you're trying to get Tom Cruise on board a project.

However he was raised, he's sure aged well relative to his fraternal twin brothers — Eddie Murphy looks a good 15 years younger than either of them!

I thought it was stronger than implied — it was spelled out for the audience that Mrs. Powers and her partner lived together in the opening scene.  The joke seemed to be that neither Kenny nor Eddie noticed, because they're both similarly self-absorbed.

That was my thought — I think a weekly Fargo series would suffer from Murder She Wrote syndrome, where every week there's a different grisly murder in this small town in Minnesota, which (using offscreen math) would imply a murder rate ten times that of Baltimore.

Dawn of the Dead has probably made it impossible to set any non-related zombie movies / TV shows inside a shopping center, even though it's a totally reasonable place for the survivors to hole up.

And let's not forget the very beginning of the season, where Shane has literally tried to rape Lori maybe two days earlier, and she chews him out for not spending more time with her son!

Opinions vary, of course, but I feel like that episode takes a C-plot and stretches it out to an A-plot.  Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I don't eat salad.

The Puerto Rican Day Parade episode is HORRIBLE, but this show has always had a few clunkers, even at its peak (The Heart Attack, The Pigman, The Dog, The Big Salad).  Most of Season 9 is surprisingly strong and I think they could have carried on in this direction for at least another season before they really started…