As long as the score's in keeping with the intended mood, I don't mind much if it's overenthusiastic (and some of it I quite like, as music), but I hate the times he's tried for something different — the worst offender being that huge, screechy, out-of-nowhere cue in the Cybermen-related scenes in "Army of Ghosts."…

I don't know, I remember having a real sense of dread the first time I watched it (and obviously each time since), not because of the alien but because of the way the Doctor was acting. It seemed clear from the start that it was an episode more about him than about the action (as opposed to "Planet of the Dead," which…

"Midnight," guys.

It is a great two-parter. And like you say, it does function as a character study of the Doctor in many ways, not only with John Smith's impressions of him but with the scene at the end where he says goodbye to Joan Redfern and she points out that the only reason there was any violence in their village at all was that…

Enough of this fuckery. He dodges the question of whether the Holocaust happened every time he's asked. "My father never lied to me," "a lot of people died, some of them were Jews in concentration camps," "atrocities happened."

Possibly there was a certain suggestion of the piscine, sir.

"Apparently we have a problem with our YouTube channel."
"Our YouTube channel?"
"Yes, [Name], our YouTube channel. God, how many times do I have to —"
"Yeah, yeah, what's the problem?"
"It's the comments."
"What about 'em?"
"They're… problematic."
"In what way?"
"To be honest, I don't have all the details."
"Why not?"
"I spent…

There seem to be a ton of people in the world who find this really confusing and I've never known why. And sometimes when I explain it they don't believe me.

My only problem with his dialogue is that like with any TV/film/theater writer who has that distinctive a voice, it means absolutely everybody in his world talks in the same unlikely way, and that gets ridiculous at times. Like if it's a character with a thick foreign accent who can't give it any rhythm or inflection…

I once got served in Woolie's after less than four weeks' wait
I've had lunch with Rowan Atkinson where he paid and wasn't late
I know a public swimming bath where they don't piss in the pool
I know a guy who got a job straight after leaving school
I've met a normal merman
And a fairly modest German
But I've never met a…

In the Larry the Cable Guy interview on this site, Dan Whitney (Larry) claimed that Bill Hicks liked the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, with the implication that if this is true then he must not be a godawful comedian. Thus the Bill Hicks comment is a joke on the futility of using spurious quotes from Bill Hicks to defend…

People will tell you that franchise is all about instilling insatiable materialism in children at an early age, but honestly when I was a kid it was only ever the books I asked for. My mother would buy us the dolls and then get mad because we actually played with them and messed up their hair and stuff, and they were…

SHE's dressed as a sex worker, not Suri Cruise. What a relief.

I hate to break it to you, but "Todd VanDerWerff" only goes to prove that "Van" is not the source of the nebulous Bond-girl quality of "Emily VanCamp."

I don't think you get to have sex with someone named Emily VanCamp unless you are someone named James Bond.

What would be nice is if these shows just neatly siphoned away the viewers who watch Mad Men because it looks pretty (Pan Am) or because it depicts a time when men were men, women were women and black people were furniture (Playboy Club). And, um, if a million replacements started watching Mad Men in time to keep it…

And Ron Butterfield. Everyone forgets he got shot in the hand, even C.J. at her briefing. Which is ironic given that his whole role in that story arc is basically about how the Secret Service is a thankless occupation.

Ainsley, I wanted to say hello, and to mention, you know, that a lot of people assumed you were hired because you were a blonde Republican sex kitten, and, well, they're obviously wrong, and keep up the good work.

The entertaining thing about Mandy's disappearance on The West Wing is that it coincided with the assassination attempt, meaning that if you want, you can spend the subsequent heartwrenching episodes pretending that Mandy's actually dead and no one's finding time to mention it.

"But he has nothing on at all!" cried the littlest Dalek.