The Great Mouse Detective is the best animated Disney film and arguably the best version of Sherlock Holmes ever made. Yes, I'm including Moffat's version.

The Great Mouse Detective is the best animated Disney film and arguably the best version of Sherlock Holmes ever made. Yes, I'm including Moffat's version.

Wow. The Mighty Ducks cartoon. Such a bizarre, inexplicable concept, even by cartoon standards. I can see the whole attempt to capture the "talking animal action show" trope, but by the time that it was released, Batman and Gargoyles more serious approach and popularity kinda killed any chance it had.

Wow. The Mighty Ducks cartoon. Such a bizarre, inexplicable concept, even by cartoon standards. I can see the whole attempt to capture the "talking animal action show" trope, but by the time that it was released, Batman and Gargoyles more serious approach and popularity kinda killed any chance it had.

You know, outside of Legends of Zorra and Avatar, a lot of the female characters in a number of kids show are much better then they once were. The protagonists of iCarly are pretty solid for the most part, and some of the other live-action shows are…hit or miss, depending on whether a 'cute guy' is involved.

I wanted to love that episode of AT - and Benson's breakdown was AMAZING, since Mordecai and Rigby needed to hear it - I'm just sorely disappointed that it didn't do anything meaningful with it at the end.

I thought it was kinda weird that this episode played down both House's near-death/multiple suicide attempts AND 13's eventual passing. It seemed like a good dramatic possibility to have the characters bounce off each other through all that - hell, House's "LIFE IS PAIN" blow-up at Taub says more about House's…

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Loved this episode, but my favorite moment was the speeches by Mako and Bolin at the beginning of the episode when they were at the council. It was an amazingly great terri-bad attempt by them to justify pro-bending matches as "peace" between benders and non-benders, that QUITE OBVIOUSLY favored benders. The line…

Nick is the NBC of cable. Especially if you look at the cable ratings for their 6-11 demographic.

Always loved the trolling-gag of Amon maybe being the cabbage dude from the first series, or at least a descendent. I'd laugh for DAYS if that was true.

There was probably a little bit of air-bending help in that - not even the strongest men can toss a fairly-fit dude with one arm like that. Still, that's pretty awesome for Korra.

One of the most surprising pieces of advice I got while I used to play high school basketball (so long ago):

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Early Dane Cook isn't too terrible - it's basically the same as early Jim Carrey, pre In Living Color; a surprisingly physically active comedian who doesn't really say funny stuff, but does funny stuff. I figured he'd have the same trajectory as Carrey, too - get on a sketch show as the "bumbling comedian" then do a…

I actually liked Carpoolers because it was a show where everyone KNEW it would be cancelled almost immediately, and pretty much had no pretense otherwise. It wore its impeding failure on its sleeve, making it a F, in a purest so-bad-its-good kind of comedy.

I… kinda agree. I mean, the unaired pilot sounds like it overdid it on the not-so-thinly-veiled racism angle, but that's kinda exactly what the show needed - if you're going to go with an inherently dumb gimmick, go 110%. I saw the aired pilot and immediately thought they needed in to go with the political/racial a…

That's interesting indeed. And it sucks cause Revolution was a pretty good song. I was a pretty big fan of AD back in the day, due to their ability to play both the hip-hippie-hop sound AND the angry black sentiment.

Talk about someone being gone before their talent could really shine. Was listening to some classic stuff - his collabs with Roberta Flack, his Christmas covers - and THAT was a voice that was amazing. I feel really bad, the guy had serious mental issues and ended up killing himself.

The other main difference is the stories - the first 3 season were baby-related "real world" problems they tried to solve; the show upon its returned focused constantly on their imaginations and adventures that went on inside their heads, which was more akin to Nick Jr. stuff than Nicktoon.