Little known facts
Terrence Malick invented Parcheesi.

Agreed. He starred in the best black-and-white sitcom and arguably the best live-action children's movie of all time. My kids will grow up on both, if I have anything to say about it.

Tobias's lame little roll onto the stage in "Bringing Up Buster" is when I realized that this series was going to be amazing.

My favorite so far: Paul Thomas Anderson vs. Paul W.S. Anderson.

Dr. D: Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about your mother.

Amadeus is probably his best work, though—it's the most impressive aging job I've ever seen.

I agree that some of the old age makeup in Kane hasn't dated well, but it's still impressive how Welles plays only a handful of scenes in his real, 25-year-old face. When he's playing Kane in his forties and fifties, you don't even notice it.

At 3:25 or so:

"Hurt lacks Paulson's physically imposing height"
Hurt is 6' 2", Paulson is 6' 5". It's not like they cast Al Pacino.

Obviously this list could be prolonged indefinitely, but I vote for Bart's cutaway in "King-Size Homer": "I wash myself with a rag on a stick." (applause)

I'm actually pretty astonished that the show got away with as much as it did. It's still one of the most pointed satires of Scientology I've ever seen, and the more you know about the subject, the funnier it becomes.

Morgan's episodes of Tower Prep were pretty disappointing, but there's promise there, especially as the show continues to grow. Morgan has always been best at deconstructing a show with an established mythology, not laying pipe for the mythology itself, so I could see him writing some great episodes in the show's…

This may be the most quotable episode of television I've ever seen, but I've always been fond of "Evil incarnate can't sue."

If that weren't enough, she also owns the distribution rights to Wong Kar-Wai's upcoming martial arts epic "The Grandmasters." I'm starting to heart this lady.

Powell and Pressburger
I'll need to check this out. As I've probably said before, Powell and Pressburger's output in the forties—ten masterpieces in ten years—is the greatest run in the history of movies, and Cardiff played a crucial role in many of those films.

Sean: thanks for reposting the link to the Darth Vader story. That opening discussion might be my favorite AV Club thread ever.

I, for one, welcome our new Franco overlords.

"Pusher" is my favorite episode, too. I was out of the country when the X-Files Gateways to Geekery was published, so I didn't know that Zack had named it as a possible starting point, which is a great, great call.

Ledger's performance is like Ricardo Montalban's in Wrath of Khan: everyone remembers the big moments, but the performance grows all the greater as he dials it down. (As long as I'm on the subject, my favorite Khan moment, and my answer for this Q&A, is when he lifts Chekhov by his spacesuit and whispers: "Why?")

Christopher Doyle
From Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love to Lady in the Water, and now this. I feel like he's doing his career backward. (It's as if Janusz Kaminski went from Schindler's List to Cool as Ice, not the other way around.)