The "molesting" nature of the tree makes it a pretty direct reference to Evil Dead and its most infamous scene.

Actually, wasn't that part of why it got rated so harshly? Because it treated nasty, real-world violence as though it were a cartoon? I feel like I read that somewhere…

God damn you, I was reading through your profile to see what other dumb
troll crap you'd spewed out lately and I got caught by this
super-explicit, unmarked spoiler.

Winter is cumming.

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"Good work, Dad. But why did we have to come to a Burger King to read the map?""Because the economics of television have changed, Steve. *looks to camera* Have it…  *pained smile* your way!"

Now I'm imagining the start of The Graduate, with a large blue muppet putting his arm around Dustin Hoffman and saying "Me have just one word for you. Just one word. Cookies."

Heh, P-NAS

How's your treatment of "Se7en 4 Kids" going, by the way?

I was at Quimby's in Chicago the other day and I picked up a book, formatted EXACTLY like the Choose Your Own Adventure books, called "Love is Not Constantly Wondering If You're Making the Biggest Mistake Of Your Life" that is basically what would happen if you took a terribly sad story about being in love with an…

Which is also friendship.

Are we talking about the same episode? There's one where he drops his posh Brit accent and talks in a kind of guttural Irish thing as he describes his childhood farming dirt or some such. It's kind of hilarious (as it usually is whenever we find out that one of the 12 Colonies is basically a Star Trek style Gangster…

Can't believe this list leaves out the episode of Battlestar Galactica where it turns out Baltar came from the Irish Planet.

I just don't understand the point of getting bothered about plot holes. Is nit-picking them more fun than just enjoying something? Or is it involuntary, and, thus, kind of pathological?

You talkin' to Phipps? You talkin' to Phipps? You talkin' to Phipps? Well, who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to Phipps? Well, he's the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talkin' to? Oh yeah? Huh? OK.

I think you can trace it back to the death of afternoon movies on the local channels. I watched the crap out of Coming to America and Trading Places when I was like 10. (I'm 27).

"Local Man Dies of Apparently Natural Causes on Roller Coaster"

Nerd digression: Does anyone around here read Darths & Droids?

I am not a big fan of "too soon." But as a fan of Never Not Funny and Andrew's presence on the show (and in his family's life)… Yeah. Too soon.

Discourse!