I'll sort of stick up for late period Homicide too. Giancarlo Esposito was a good addition to the cast, and Michael Michele was a lot better than you might think. It would have been a truly great season if a piano had fallen on Falsone and Ballard in the season premiere.

Race and "Home"
As you mention, "Teliko" is an attempt by the X-Files to deal with race. I wonder if "Home" might be a better treatment of it, though. The Peacocks talk about the "Northern War of Aggression" and act out Southern po-white stereotypes, even though they live in a Union state (Pennsylvania). Thus…

I hate instant. I also hate the fact that you can't switch off autocomplete on Google anymore. You can neutralize it by putting a plus sign at the beginning of your search, but it's a pain in the ass.

Cancres Debouts, another French animation team, has been doing some really nice stuff on Vimeo. Here's a couple of links to their work.
* http://vimeo.com/14989235
* http://vimeo.com/14990173

I thought this week's episode was a baby-steps improvement on the pilot. That had very little to do with the mission. After all, what kind of diabolical mastermind shoots his hostage and leaves her without checking to see if she's really dead. No, it's the development of the characters into something more…

"One was killed in Malaysia"
They killed the first three who landed: one, two, three. Now they have to kill this Number Four goober before they can get the others.

Yeah, there's really only a two-word overlap between the two skits. The SNL skit wasn't ripping anyone off. But I'd say the Tim & Eric skit is funnier. The noisy winking between the two men was a nice bit of randomness.

Frank's gift
Zack, you basically ask. "If Frank isn't psychic, then what is he." It's sort of a misleading question, although his denial is bound to raise that question. There is definitely something uncanny about the way Frank Black sees into the minds of the killers (Plus other stuff in season 2). For lack of a…

That's the only thing that sort of bugged me too. I can justify it, though. Those were more a case of having great reflexes, not good aim per se. It's good enough to let me sleep tonight.

did anybody else cringe at "the most incredible man I have ever known" line?
Dude, I invented cringing at that line.

What surprised me about Rabin's geek spectrum was that there was no mention of Lisa. I mean, smart social outcast in Springfield. Who's the first person who pops into your mind.

So why did Trent Reznor want to forget that girl like an animal, anyway?

I was getting ready to bitch the authors out for not including "I Hope You're Happy Now" and then I saw it at #14. So overall a good list. I'd also add the Magnetic Fields' "How to Say Goodbye".

Hold the phone
Are you telling me Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper are two different people?

Morgan had more of a skepticism about Mulder as a great truthseeker than he did a dislike. And I'd have to note that this episode, even while it mocks Mulder, leaves open the possibility that he's right. Sure the aliens who appear seem ridiculous, but look over the rest of the episode and ask yourself, "What…

I've held my peace til now but…
Newsradio was doomed when Catherine was written out. When they started to break up the band—and I think I've heard that was the network dicking with them—the chemistry started going seriously askew. The tragic and unforeseeable loss of Phil Hartman made the situation worse.

I loved this episode so much I proposed to it. The idea that this bland-looking nobody could let out a couple lines of idle chatter and bam! talk a cop into a fiery car wreck. Wow.

Haldeman's awesome
I actually like his brainhacking/espionage novel "All My Sins Remembered" better than "The Forever War", but they're both fab. I hope this is the right team to put the material up there on screen.

Entertainment remains on the air, and it always will. As it has been from the dawn of time. ET sees all, yea into your very soul. Once I feared its great power. Now I embrace it.

For the first time ever…
I'm hoping this is a reality show.