I believe the trope originated with J.K. Rowling's introduction of Kingsley Shacklebolt in the fifth Harry Potter book.

I appreciate foreshadowing as much as the next guy… But if that was the roadmap for Season 3, I think I'm out after this year.

The character "Virgil" was also the submissive manservant often abused and disgraced by Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase.

And, to be fair… He DID make the back of his own skull disappear.

Well, I don't know much about cigars. So, I guess I have little to add to this conversation, humorous or otherwise.

Thanksgiving at Nora's house is a complex affair, that's for sure.

Um… The white guy is a disgraced cop.

P.P.S.: If for some reason you'd have a problem being literally handcuffed to me… Don't worry. They'll have to come off when I go visit my brother. He's the naked guy in the pillory atop that RV in the terrifying lunatic camp on the outskirts of town.

Boy, if it wasn't tough enough for her to find a new man when she was a hollowed-out shell that had lost a whole family to the departure…

Was that the girl who played the girl in "My Girl"?

Well, then stay tuned for a bathtub scene in an upcoming episode.

"I'll See You In My Dreams"

This doesn't answer my main Nic Cage question, which is of course "How did it get burned?"

Speaking as a guy who spent a few years working on Thomas and the other HIT programs (Barney, Pingu, Angelina, Bob the Builder, etc.) and had a lot of free time to think about such matters…

I don't know. I mean, the Revell ones are like, eight inches.

This is actually a pretty damn good movie. Nothing that's going to change the world or cure cancer… But very good all the same.

Unintentional. Didn't realize I'd even be the first comment on the story.

I don't suppose this first popped up yesterday, did it, internet?

Needed more turtle.

Well, until we get David Simon's "Sesame Street", I guess I'll just have to appreciate preschool entertainment that, tragically, doesn't also carry over as a valuable adult narrative.