Oh, I'm getting up there. Got all of the toy 'bot sets, Gamera, the deleted Godzilla disc… Lotsa disposable income, no life.

I finally got around to seeing Moon Zero Two after skipping it for years — it's a Season One episode, after all. It's a pleasantly trippy Sixties space Western, and honestly — there's no way a movie with Catherine Schell can go wrong.

Help! I'm being held prisoner in a Chinese fortune cookie factory!

Annnnd his eyes open…

"Kill Gil, Vol. I & II" (Season 18). It's a Gil episode, obvs., so you may have blanked it out for your own peace of mind.

7) Her leg was sprained, and the zombies broke it off when they clumsily dragged her corpse off. That is what happens to sprained legs, right? I'm no doctor.

I deeply, irrationally loathed "Shine" when it came out. There are songs I find boring, bad, or stupid, but it's like I had an allergy to "Shine." I wound up giving up on one radio station that constantly played it because I couldn't hit the dial fast enough when the opening riff started. Luckily, that's how I missed…

I was hoping for “Flood” from The Young Ones. I mean, who could have foreseen that Vyvyan’s potion for turning you into an ax-wielding homicidal maniac would wind up turning Mr. Balowski into an ax-wielding homicidal maniac? The show always seemed so sedate before…

You may be thinking of Dick Ebersol. Not related (note the spelling). She was also in Amadeus as a soprano, which is a pity she probably won't be around for the musical number.

It struck me as I watched the clip that I've seen The Hudsucker Proxy dozens of times, yet I've never got around to seeing Mr. Deeds, even though Jennifer Jason Leigh's character is based on Jean Arthur's performance. Off to the video store to atone…

Elvis Costello's "Satellite." All over the world, at the very same time, someone's watching all of our would-be romantic moments, and you get the feeling they're bored by the lot of us.

I double-checked the final graphic: According to the Machine, the likelihood of Root killing Dr. Carmichael is 78.21%. So nobody better get too comfy seeing Bruce Altman on this show.

Root (Amy's character) didn't create the Machine. She found out about it and developed a creepy fixation on it — basically, it's God to her. She took Finch hostage in an attempt to find it; eventually, she was caught, and Finch arranged her incarceration.

At the point in this episode where Samantha Mathis reappeared, I was seriously hoping that her message would be: "You're all safe in the Dome, because outside? Captain Trips just broke out! Superflu for everyone!"

Seriously, they didn't title this one "Under The Thunderdome"?

Chester's Mill is America's biggest supporter of Windows Surface and Windows Phone, just like Pawnee loved AltaVista (R.I.P.).

The rain in the first half of the episode served no point, story-wise or metaphor-wise, that I was able to pick up. But god, did it look beautiful. It's great when an animated show takes the time to vary its look, and the animators did a terrific job.

Their staredown over the last shrimp was just perfect. We never found out who won, but I'll bet there was a lot of collateral damage.

Their staredown over the last shrimp was just perfect. We never found out who won, but I'll bet there was a lot of collateral damage.

The best thing about 2) is that Snowball II doesn't think meeting God is a big deal. Proving something we've always suspected about cats.