@avclub-43c2872b929f4e64e31828b133b59105:disqus , that's great to know. When I read a new RR it's fun to see at what juncture you'll hit them with their signature role (usually in the second half of the interview, if I'm not mistaken, so that they'll be less likely to respond in press junket mode), and when you'll…

To fans and detractors alike, I recommend episode 18 of The K Ohle with Kurt Braunohler podcast, which parodies Radiolab in the form of a fake show called Facttime. I was dying: they incorporate all of the maddening conversational cadences I mentioned above. Plus Paul F. Tompkins!

Side note about Wait Wait Don't Tell Me:

I don't know that one! I'll count myself lucky indeed. I'm in the Boston area.

Sorry @avclub-6c7b46c3ef8d20eeafc3557141360403:disqus ! I have a couple of friends who love the show. I mentioned my reservatoins, and they each said "I never noticed that stuff, but now I'm not going to be able to NOT notice it."

This will appear to be trolling. It may even BE trolling. But there are few things in the world of radio that angry up my blood quite like Radiolab.

They're very "cutesy". It's intolerable.

I'd go! I'd bring my family!

There's an interesting undercurrent in this RR. You can sense that Nelson isn't a yapper, but he hangs in there, and you can feel him slowly warm up over the course of the conversation (I have no idea if the content of any given RR is presented in the order in which it was actually discussed, but it plays that way…

I guess Paddy Chayefsky just doesn't "play" in these fast-paced times we live in.

So it goes.

You know that scene near the end of Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol where Patton is wearing the low-cut dress? I nominate that scene for the Cleavage Hall of Fame. Seriously — we've all seen lots and lots of cleavage, to say nothing of actual bare breasts, but when an actor manages to achieve cleavage of that level…

I'm glad to see that the first comment here is about the title. I can't comment on the quality of the film itself, but that's got to represent the bottom of the movie-title barrel. Just look at it:

Mighty Mouse is a cartoon. Superman is a real guy.

I had no idea who Carol Vorderman was, @avclub-22259ee6329364cebbe4c40bd951f307:disqus , but I liked what I Googled.

I hastily note that I of course realize that Boromir actually dies in the first chapter of the second book.

A Song of Ice and Fire is like Lord of the Rings if they killed off Boromir in the first book.

I'm pretty sure Machine Man made his first appearance in Marvel's 2001: A Space Odyssey comic, and then he went on to appear in mainstream Marvel continuity. So I hope that means that 2001: A Space Odyssey counts as a Marvel Cinematic Universe entry, and that we'll get Hal 9000 in the show.

No rap, no music, no music, no music.

What is it with DC and their oppressive enforcement of the "endlessly delayed gratification" formula?