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I love that "Phantom of the Paradise" gag… plus he's conducting four famous film Phantoms!

I'd personally go to the concert at the end. Sure, the Brothers themselves perform for a grand total of five minutes before escaping, but Cab Calloway! Hell yeah!

I'm excited already.

When CM is properly written, the episodes feel like they could have been expanded into full films. "Uncanny Valley", "Tabula Rasa", "North Mammon", "Seven Seconds" and the Adam/Amanda story (can't remember the title right now) could all work as their own horror movies. That's not including the two-parters, which

There have been a couple "sewing people together" episodes. My favorite, just for sheer audacity, is the one where the guy was killing boys and putting them together into a facsimile of his brother so that he could throw it into a tornado and reclaim his brother's soul. It's so absolutely fucked up, and it's a great

This is nothing new. In "Paradise Lost", Jesus shoots at Satan with a bow and arrow while riding a chariot. I'm Jewish and I think that's awesome.

Criminal Minds, "The Uncanny Valley". It's a combination of the most horrifying torture techniques, a well-meaning villain and Jonathan Frakes as an evil asylum owner.

Considering the porn career antics we see Ursula get up to later in "Friends", I think it's very clear how she kept that job.

Oubliette just showed up in Young Avengers (well, sort of) and I really hope Hexus comes back too. I want a sequel story where he convinces the government to bail him out.

Shoot at maggots [like a BOSS]

As with previous Q&A columns, I'll go with "Castle" on this one. Not particularly Castle himself, of course, but I'd trust Kate, Esposito and Ryan with my life.

You know how I know you're gay? You didn't have to google that "Gloria Upson" reference.

I hope that in the last scene, the camera turns so that we can see Saget as Future!Ted. Not sure who would play the future mom… maybe Milioti with some aging make-up?

Who gets to play Cyrano? Alan Tudyk might work well.

I like to think that—given the connections with Fosse and Ben Vereen—this is a sequel to "Pippin", and O'Connor Flood is the Leading Player doing a new version of his schtick.

My favorite DC trivia shout-out from this episode: the hand at the beginning of the universe. They don't explain it in the show or even show the rest of the Anti-Monitor (which admittedly would've been an awesome mindfuck but it was already in the last few minutes of the episodes), but it's such a cool little touch.

I love that arc. Especially the fourth issue where something like 40 Avengers keep getting in each other's way once they get back to the present. It's a prescient commentary of what the franchise would be like years later.

His actual origin is pretty awesome. He was Tarkin's slave, but he stole his shuttle and nearly killed Tarkin before defecting to the Alliance. Then he burned down Tarkin's mansion after nearly getting his nuts cut off.

I'm always fond of Mike Nelson's reply to that quote from the Rifftrax: "Do you still keep in touch with them?"

12. I'm a lead farmer, motherfucker!