That Todd isn't hung up on someone else's idea of intellectual consistency is why I enjoy reading him.

Well you could follow that bad boy home and take a picture while the car is parked in the driveway.  Is there some downside that I'm not seeing?

This is what happens when you buy your headgear for $1.30 at Darth Vader's yard sale.

I don't know if she'll cognitively get everything that's going on onscreen.  While it's a kid's show, it's a busy kid's show.  But I'm guessing she'll like the characters and the songs, so it's a good choice that way.

Me like.  I can just see Crazy Harry as Van Owen in the "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner" sketch.

I saw this episode when it first aired, or at least when it first aired in North America.  Had no idea who Candice Bergen was, as Carnal Knowledge was strangely not a kids movie.  But I liked the show.  "Put Another Log On the Fire" was a pretty funny bit, from where I sit.

For the record, this was the first time Nasim had ever done Hoda Kotb.  Jenny Slate took over the role for a year, but they stopped doing the Today show bits after she was fired.  This one was funnier than usual, mainly because Wiig's Kathy Lee got a better set of obnoxious jokes.

The dancing made everyone look like live action Peanuts kids, which is awesome.

I thought Jimmy got off the best of the joke-off jokes with "Unlike the dancers, the toys must not be damaged."

Part of it was that Bradbury was very influential among spec-fic writers in that era.  Matheson, Beaumont and George Clayton Johnson weren't abject Bradbury clones, but he represented what they wanted to accomplish in their own work.

Good point.  I wonder how different the results would have been had the kid met Bolie when he (Bolie, that is) was 18 and just starting out in life.

Pohl's an interesting writer.  There's a story of his called "We Purchased People" that I think may be one of the inspirations behind Dollhouse.

So should Grant Bowler combine this movie with Atlas Shrugged when he redoes his résumé?  You know, "Attacked by Zombie Moochers on the Way to Galt's Gulch" or something along those lines?

I'm guessing that if this is going to be a continuing series, they'll be doing a loose adaptation, taking characters and elements of the plot and twisting them so they can last longer.  Sort of how Dexter is just based on the first book in the series.

My first paying job was in a hospital kitchen washing dishes.  One night while we were closing up I heard Ian Dury playing on one of the janitors' boombox.  Yeah, you bet I consider myself lucky.  This wasn't even England.

No no no, they mean the hair on her head.

Yeah "Heroin Girl" was fairly good cheese.

I had forgotten how much that musical skit freaked me out when I was a little one.  Given the Svengali's facial hair I'm surprised I didn't have a lifelong phobia about Frank Zappa.

I appreciated the "District 10" sightgag.  Quite tony!

Hadn't realized it before, but "Execution" has a very similar premise to Time After Time.  That's the movie where HG Wells builds an actual time machine, and Jack the Ripper stows away to the present on it.  Again, you have the "thin veneer" concept, and the killer can basically do what he wants.