The words "Palin" and "circus" in such proximity made me desperately happy for a moment, imagining there could be such a thing as Michael Palin Family Circus. I have no idea what that would be, except whimsical.

I'd never compare the episodes in terms of quality. "I Only Have Eyes For You" feels like the Buffy writers, already having a hell of a season 2, saying "yes, and we can do absolutely anything with this show."

It's not just Marsters being shaky on the accent, the character's accent is an affectation. I mean, granted: within any random episode, yes that is just Marsters drifting, but I like that they came up with justification.

This one reminds me of Buffy S2's "I Only Have Eyes For You." They're thematically similar: both episodes feature the longing of the dead infecting the living, whose lives are already plenty complicated; they struggle on opposite sides of a life-ending conflict.

I caught some of the Jackass retrospective MTV was showing as a tie-in. Margera was explaining how they spent their youth punishing their bodies, and it caught up - he's basically in pain all the time now. Hilarious! I love watching that douche suffer.

Scotland PA does own. That's some good weird Walken, and Tierney is smoking.

Which was the one that focused on demons as workaday shlubs, all freaked out that this gaunt loser could apparently see them for what they are?

Wait. What about Camille Paglia?

High Yellas? I understand the rest of it, but… what?

Bitch.

Bitches pay; that's all I got t' say.

I love that song so hard. No irony, no shame. It's completely worthless, but it's perfect.

Yeah, Rerun sucked. I remember liking a lot of Spike strips, though: he failed at everything!

Most of the songs on Fragments of a Rainy Season's setlist are my favorite versions.

John Cale is consistently incredible - I'd put "everything VU after Cale" on the list, but I'm unreasonable. But his lyrics have always been weird and affected. Sometimes it clicks, more often it doesn't, but I don't see any particular falloff.

Things I genuinely enjoyed about those movies: Chiklis, and the fact that he wasn't CGI. I think the only thing that would make me optimistic about the reboot is if they attached Brad Bird.

I remember this. The replicator can't make living things because it works at molecular-level resolution. The teleporter is quantum-level resolution, which is necessary for life, and won't work except in realtime unless they decide it does, like when Scotty set the pipe to keep feeding back into itself.

Neither Scott nor Ramona should be inflicted upon anybody else. I think they'll work out, and I love that it's left as a question.

How did Cobb and Ariadne enter Limbo? Fischer died in 3, but those two were just hooked up to the machine. Is level 4 automatically Limbo? If they weren't wired to Fischer, why would they have found him there? Why did he land in Cobb's Limbo?

I love the small-cast stuff. I was nervous (after the movies, and the re-premiere) that new Futurama was going to be the "throw more stuff in so it'll be funnier!" type of desperation. Not that it hasn't done that very very well - Time Keeps On Slipping, 300 Big Boys - but it needs to keep it grounded in subtle…