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Does Felix have to stay in the closet the whole time in this one, too?

I never thought there could be a day when I would say "Thomas Lennon? Isn't he getting a little over-exposed lately?"

That was a flop, too. At least it had a mercifully short run.

And sell the novel, and become incredibly rich from it, so when he runs into that woman who thinks he's an idiot, she realizes he's a sensitive, brilliant guy, and they set up a date at a cute lunch spot. Next thing you know, they're vacationing in Tuscany, where's he's writing a second sure-fire hit book. Try that

The movies are the last stronghold of old-fashioned gender stereotypes. And don't get me started on how they portray gay people or Asians.

The Super Bore, you mean.

They're almost all showpiece ads, and if you watch them on Super Bowl Sunday you can see them premiere on a real screen rather than a computer, before the news media reruns little bits and pieces and ruins any surprises. But I would guess there's very, very few people who watch the game for the ads without a bunch of

LOL When I hear someone say "the Big Game" it's ALWAYS in some form of advertising. Not one real person on earth has ever referred to the Super Bowl as The Big Game, except when people are talking in commercials or print ads about the Super Bowl - "Hey, are you going to watch the Big Game?" Whoever thought that up

Yes, it does account for groups and bars. Nielsen puts out thousands of people-meters plus they do surveys and other means of gathering information. Rest assured, advertisers pay many millions for Nielsen's data every year, and they are all well aware of the information gathering process that provided that data -

Nielsen numbers are estimates of how many people are watching. Last year they estimated about 108 million, plus about 56 million international viewers, for a total of 164 million watching worldwide.

;^)

Not accurate for Henry Ford, but in Roddenberry's case I'd say that's a fair assessment. Just because the show was Roddenberry's doesn't mean he was the best person to execute it. Some of the constraints he put into his vision were counter to it being the best show it could be. Was Bob Kane's version of
Batman,

Q is the live-action version of The Great Gazoo, who's a slightly more benevolent Mr. Myxlplyx.

True. Wil was becoming a good character. I disagreed with the whole concept of having cadets on the Enterprise, much less, involved in important events and saving the Enterprise all the time. No harm in him being smart but everyone else chosen for space duty would be as well. If he had been a little older and less

The best thing that ever happened to the Star Trek franchise was distancing itself from its creator Gene Roddenberry. Mr. Roddenberry's influence faded after TNG's first season, and the show greatly improved. Star Trek the Motion Picture was the only Trek movie with Roddenberry's grip on it and it is easily the

That is space movie heresy!  It violates the second rule of space movies:

Ditto.   I would see this even if it starred Robin Williams and Sharon Stone - jk.  

Think in two hours of self-referential blabbing she ever gets around to explaining why she married Jesse James?

Sounds like Sandra Bullock's character has a touch of JarJar Binks.

Hey, there's a Breaking Bad spoiler - Walt "going mano a mano with his enemies"?   So far, he's shot, run over, bombed and strangled his various enemies, but never has he gone "mano a mano", a.k.a. "hand to hand".  I'd like to see that.