See, class? That's how you lighten up a thread without resorting to, "And also, fuck your dead mother."

great episode
What the hell was Jim thinking by telling his new boss the truth about why he was wearing a tux? Say you're getting ready to take half a personal day to drive to a wedding. For Christ's sake, say *anything* except, "I was pretty much just screwing around to irritate my coworker for raising the issue of…

I also dislike generalizations, Ty, but that's just a statement of clear fact.

Seconded on Julia's mysterious Quality. I like her in everything; even in terribly, terribly shitty movies, there's just something about her face that I can't stop watching. I just *like* her, and I can't even tell you why. And that, kids, is how you make a bazillion dollars in Hollywood.

I don't think that means what you think it means
"In the Apatow Age, the non-romantic bonds between men has been the love that dare not speak its name"

JASON SEGAL AND MUPPETS??!!!!??

I guess the goal is for the judges to be able to save people whose version of the song really *was* extra wonderfully good, if only we weren't too stupid to realize it and vote, making the re-sing a kind of, "There, SEE? That's why!" for the judges and a chance for us to re-evaluate. On the other hand, if the…

I don't suppose you're probably meant to take your children to Way of the Gun. Although God knows some asshole did anyway, I'm sure. There were a dozen of the critters there when I saw Watchmen; it was an 8 o'clock show on a school night, and also, IT WAS WATCHMEN. Urge to kill, rising.

No, give me an ORIGINAL sin! I…I poked a badger with a spoon?

Clearly the nuanced and sophisticated theology in this room is pretty far over my head, so I'm going to stay out of this one.

Tom, the way I think of it is this: we evolved in quite small social groups, where you would absolutely know and know very well the person behind every face you saw. It seems to me like the illusion of intimacy we have with celebrities isn't so much a mockery as it is our brains' way of desperately trying to…

My mother tells me that Pinocchio was the first movie I saw in a theater, but I don't have any memory of it. I think the first I remember was the original Star Trek movie at a drive-in, for I am second-generation geek.

A lot of Disney from back in the day was traumatic as hell. Everyone remembers Bambi and all that, but am I the only one who never entirely got over the Fox and the Hound? I wasn't keyed into the racist subtext as a kid, of course, but it was still a movie almost entirely about betrayal and banishment. I noticed…

poor sad Qui-Gon
Honestly, Neeson is just such a communicative actor, and I've seen him in so very many things, that I'm stuck with these images of how stunned and sad he probably looks right now. I think this is empathy? I don't like it.

goddammit
I liked her a lot better than Michael, Scott, Kris, and Megan combined. Now they hang around boring and/or annoying me, and I can't pretend any of them are Chloe from Smallville. Not that I, uh, would do that. Because it would be weird, right? That's what I thought, too.

grossly offensive for no good reason, at worst.

I blame Mormons.

Understandable. She is ridiculously awesome. But I often like covers of her songs, which I think goes to show that she's a hell of a songwriter. That often goes unacknowledged, since her persona/personality/stage presence is so larger-than-life.

Wholly agreed. That's what makes it *sub*-Sean of the Dead. But I have it on DVD and occasionally watch it (I wasn't even under 20 when it was released, so I don't have youth to blame), and I laugh. This is all I'm trying to say.

I'm bizarrely straight for Jason Segal. Seriously, I would kiss that boy! I don't know what it is about him.