Yeah, but that's the way they handle every story line. Bring something up in an intriguing way, then forget about it utterly, then bring it up out of nowhere several episodes down the line, then forget about it utterly again. It's like the writers were having a contest with The L-Word to see who could write the most…

Yeah, but isn't that basically every movie?

Better question: has there ever been a non-flop (or in any way watchable) video game-to-movie adaptation?

That scene in Pump Up the Volume was the first time I ever saw a girl's naked boobs, which obviously was a seminal moment in my adolescence. I didn't realize she had been in anything else (and it never occurred to me to take the 10 seconds to look that up). So thanks, Nabin, for giving me reason to think about her…

Actually, it kinda is. As someone pointed out above, each season ends minutes after the previous one begins. So the entire arc of Weeds has taken place over the course of maybe a year and a half, tops.

Yeah, I'm also sick of the "how dare a critic actually provide criticism!" complaints. It isn't Todd's job to either unquestioningly enjoy something or stop watching it (and frankly, that's not our job as TV viewers either). His job is to provide critical analysis of the show, whether it's good or bad. If a show…

Everything said in the last three posts, plus this: The way they turned Celia into a raving drug addict straight out of Reefer Madness, in the span of about 10 minutes, was horribly done. And my favorite thing about the first two seasons was the sexual tension between her and Conrad. They fucked up that relationship…

Yeah, the only reason I have a problem seeing Krasinski kiss Maya Rudolph is that it should be me, damn it!!!

D'oh. I put the action movie sound effects in brackets, and it ignored them. That should have been slightly funnier - maybe mildly amusing instead of pointless. Ah well.

"This summer… Abagail Breslin… IS… Little Miss Sunshine!

Her character's a Scientologist, and she's doing a silent pregnancy.

Honestly, I don't get the love for Flirting With Disaster. Every set of would-be birth parents is a labored setup for a gag where Ben Stiller knocks something over and breaks it. There's the trucker - hey! he crashes the truck! Then there's a couple with a collection of very delicate glass knicknacks - hmm… I…

Nabin can say as much as he likes!

I think he does too. Doesn't mean he's not threatened now that he has to compete with his former manatee.

I have to agree with i and 1's assessment of Leno. It's easy to forget that, back in the day, he was really pretty funny. I actually saw one of the Onion writers defend him in an interview, and they put it very well: When his job was to spend two months crafting 45 minutes of material to re-use every night, he was…

I remember when Jon was on Fox, opposite early-days Conan. I used to flip back and forth, thinking if they could team up, it would be the best show ever. Stewart was a great interviewer and had an assured, charismatic delivery, but his writing sucked. Conan was this font of brilliant ideas, but had really awkward…

One thing I liked about the movie I Love You, Man, was that it made L.A. seem like an actual town, lived-in, with neighborhoods, etc., and not just an enormous movie set, as movies/TV usually does. I'd love to see Conan showing us more real-life L.A. (like Rodeo Rd.) instead of spotlighting the plastic-y aspect of it.

Andy will get back into a groove - give it time. Also, Leno intentionally made the monologue longer because, supposedly, that was popular among the viewers, so Conan might be following that lead. Conan's also integrating taped bits into the monologue, which stretches it out.

In the year 2000, dolphins will learn to speak. Unfortunately, everything they say will be incredibly racist.

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