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Elephantitis
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My first celebrity crushes were Erin Grey in both Buck Rogers and Silver Spoons, and Linda Carter in Wonder Woman. But in the modern day, I'd have to go with Alison Brie on Community, Hayden Panettiere on Heroes (first season only, of course), and Robin/Cobie Smulders on How I Met Your Mother.

Other sitcoms that managed to work in new cast members: The Office added Ed Helms, Sunny added Danny DeVito (although I think that was only in its 2nd season), and Parks and Rec added Adam Scott and Rob Lowe. Although out of those only Parks and Rec could be considered to be replacing a departing cast member.

So I actually saw this movie
Saw this tonight in Chicago and I was surprised to find out that I enjoyed it. It's really not at all about the mishandling of the recovery effort (did Nathan Rabin watch the same movie? Was he asleep?), but more about how the Army Corps of Engineers managed to do a whole lot of shit wrong

Geoff Johns
You give Geoff Johns too much credit. He's DC's workhorse, churning out hundreds of adequate but unremarkable ideas and scripts. I think he's a big name more for being ubiquitous than for crafting great superhero stories.

Also, didn't it look like Toby's brother was a computer morph of both Toby and Ryan's faces? I'm pretty sure that was BJ Novak's voice during that bit.

I loved all the callbacks to previous episodes in this one: Michael putting his new Dundee on the desk is a shot from the opening credits, Creed pays to use the women's bathroom, Darryl won't let anyone use the bailer—there's probably a bunch more that I can't remember off the top of my head. But I liked how they

Spoiler warning?
I know there aren't a lot of super-specific details in here, but it seems to me like a lot of these questions are spoiler-tastic. Enough that I didn't really want to read most of this, and I'm like 80 percent sure I'm not going to see this movie in the theatres.

I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor
Not to bag on the author too much, because I like this series, but something about the writing reminds me of the Patrick Bateman monologues on pop music in American Psycho

I think Lumen is actually going to basically become another Dexter, and go off to kill bad guys in another city at the end of season. Spin-offs! Stay tuned for Dexter: NY and Dexter: Las Vegas Nights coming next fall to Showtime.

Not until I've had my coffee
That stoner guy is totally the same dude from those annoying McDonald's commercials where he keeps blowing people off saying, "Not until I've had my coffee."

Kale
I thought the bit where Kale offers to help Will out was meant to be ambiguous, instead of just showing that he's one of the good guys. Is he genuinely helping Will? Or is he just pretending to help Will in order to keep better tabs on just how much about the conspiracy (or whatever this show is leading up to)

Abandon!
"Wright throws himself into the task with total abandon, abandoning any pretense of realism"

They had me up until about the last 5 minutes. Even when Christian Shepard reappeared, that was okay. And then Jack says, "Because I died?" And then I died inside.