Time Travelin' TV Club from the year 2018 is dismayed to report that "Outsourced" is currently in its eighth season.

Yep. Warner Music owns the rights to "Happy Birthday To You" (and allegedly charges over $500 a pop to license them), which is why you rarely hear anyone singing it in TV or movies.

So, wait, you're upset because you used (fairly precise) academic language in an academic setting to critically evaluate something? Yeah, that's horrible, kill yourself at once.

I think people are overselling the idea that this episode about Troy realizing that alcohol is evil or something. Clearly, it's been established that he's had booze before; but this was his first big grown-up bar visit, and he realized that all of his friends were miserable. That wasn't necessarily due to alcohol —…

No, you're right. My mini-plot description was meant to be sequential, not intentional (rape first, then explosion of rage), but I didn't make that clear enough.

Donkey Lips pretty much encapsulates my view of "The Getaway": it's a good movie on its own merits, but it's not much of a Peckinpah movie. You expect it to be great because it's Peckinpah directing McQueen over a Thompson script by Hill, but it doesn't add up. Peckinpah was just after a paycheck and the whole…

There's a link on the Wikipedia entry for "The Osterman Weekend" to a review I wrote of it. I think it's because that was the only positive review of it they could find.

Never fear, there will be plenty of discussion of Ms. Romano in the days ahead.

Regardless of how much they're original vs. how much they're drawn from real life, I rather enjoyed the court transcripts. That style of writing, like turn-of-the-century journalism and the old 'header' style of plot encapsulation, has a rhythm all its own.

The Atlanta CDC complex is huge, so I'm sure, like any big industrial complex, they'd have their own generators, and a limited amount of food and supplies. Whether they're actually set up with survival equipment, that I dunno. It's a research facility, not a fortress, but it's probably set up as well as any…

Only one showed up at first, but others followed. By the time the door opened, there were quite a lot of them.

If by "being sensitive", you mean "politely asking people not to post them and then people do it anyway", then yes.

I don't think it's a spoiler to point out something that never takes place in the comics.

krebstar, ask Tasha about that one. I've never seen it.

Jean-Luc: in the case of two-parters, I will probably do those in one entry.

Oh, that poem by Coach McGuirk. One of the funniest things that has ever happened anywhere in any context.

I'll only be doing one episode a week, to spare myself from overwork and you all from tedium. So hopefully it won't be too hard to keep up with.

Man, New Glarus beer is worth the fucking drive from Chicago to get it, though. There's some microbrews down here in Texas, but none of 'em good as what comes outta that town.

I actually do have better things to do, so this really will be my last word on the subject. And a pointless one it will be at that, since I'm merely restating what I've already said.

Nothing. Nothing is wrong with Joss Whedon. Joss Whedon has never said anything or done anything worthy of criticism, and anyone who says otherwise — or writes an article in which they appear to say otherwise, even if they actually don't — is a dirty liar with no journalistic integrity.