Wouldn't The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! count as the most optimistic apocalypse satire ever made? Or wasn't it apocalypsy enough?

Not a Kung Fu Panda fan? Surely making him a cartoon panda is similarly perfect casting.

I'm not opposed to nuance, but the more nuance you include, the less you should be surprised when people don't get your point. I guess this just comes down to the vastly different cultural perspective of a place where obedience to one's culture and elders is so ingrained, that that it would be more likely to see…

That's actually kind of disturbing. The audience was intended to sympathize with the aunt? "Those foolish kids just compounded their own suffering"?

I think the aliens prefer "Grey" as well.

The diversity is probably a function of how far apart everything in the state is from everything else. It's as if you took all the sprawl communities in New Jersey and set them up so that each one was separated by 100 miles of jungle swamp from every other one.

The concept of "serial killers" most people have become accustomed to
via entertainment media is of someone who enjoys killing for it's own
sake — a recreational "hunter of humans". I think by "strategic" they're referencing another category, though, like H.H. Holmes, the "Murder Castle" proprietor featured in The…

ADHD Golan : Primetime Golan :: Tracy Ullman Simpsons : The Simpsons

Yeah, I think the Montauk project is more likely to be the main plot hook here than the Montauk monster, though there are those who've tried to connect the two. Bigger and more all-encompassing is usually assumed to be better, where supernatural conspiracies are concerned (see also Sleepy Hollow).

Underdog's groin

Though he had the great musical guest intro line (intentional or not): "I'd like you to meet Loaf! er… Meat Loaf!"

'cause he was too cheap to buy tickets.

The A.V. Club

Definitely finish your surgery before watching The Thing, especially if it might involve defibrulation.

You were IP pirates back in the romantic, swashbuckling days!

I think the Deitch cartoons were the most direct inspiration for The Simpsons' "Itchy and Scratchy", in that they generally didn't show Tom doing anything harmful to Jerry — Jerry's attacks on Tom thus played out as simple sadism rather than revenge or self-defense.

The protagonists in this film would be Chang Kai-Shek's Nationalist Chinese, which might actually raise some complications in the making of it, since I think there are restrictions on the use of Nationalist emblems in the PRC similar to modern Germany's ban on the swastika. I know I've seen "Flying Tiger" fighters in…

I seem to recall pictures of the M202 showing instructions decaled right on the side, though I can't find any on-line just now —
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Fair enough. Point is that the format sucked, not the dancers.

The format change seems horrible. The show has made changes on the fly before (e.g., backpedaling from the awful decision to announce the cuts at the beginning of each episode), but this seems too fundamental to rectify — all the "Team Street" dancers have presumably been picked for Vegas already, without the…