Hazards of love is great, though it's a few tracks in before it takes off.

Doesn't every P&P episode have a super serious tone? That's part of the reason the show works, that it treats things like a kid's bedtime as an epic struggle.

I haven't even seen the movie but

I'd just been thinking there was a disappointing lack of Burton in these comment threads, and here we are. Awesome as usual, Ms. Sirtis!

I just finished giving the album a first listen, and it's definitely a throwback to their early stuff. Refreshing!

Not a Talia fan
I am the night does over-the-top dramatic Batman better than any other episode. Conroy kills it.

Let me clarify that I definitely enjoyed the book last year, and I'm not snobbishly putting it down. I just think I would have liked it much more in middle school.

Bus Driver Stu
Was this show really that big on continuity? Particularly in the Pete/Ellen relationship? They kissed at the end of this episode but I don't recall if they ever talk about it again, and that's fine.

I read this book last year
And I seriously wish I read it when I was 13. The whole book is just "first I killed a bunch of Indians, then I went to Mars where I'm super strong and can jump really high, then I fought aliens that look like this, then I made friends with a monster, then a naked chick fell in love with me,…

Ithaca
I've flown NYC to Ithaca 3 times. It's all tiny little prop planes that feel like they'll fall out of the sky at any moment due to Ithaca's famously terrible weather. I'm saying Seinfeld is unrealistic.

Agreed. The gag about Mom needing to find the perfect spot to go to the bathroom never gets old.

I second the recommendation in favor of Thomas Covenant, and against Shanarra (which were the first 2 big post-LOTR fantasy series).

GRRM is a lifetime super-nerd. He's been going to comic conventions since the '70s and when he was a teenager he had a letter published in an early issue of Fantastic Four.

Yeah Spongebob definitely established itself as a different animal pretty quickly, but the basic formula, particularly in the first season, was pretty similar to Rocko.

Rocko: Excuse me, can I borrow your Jackhammer?

When Spongebob first came on my first thought was "this is just another Rocko". Spongebob = Rocko, Patrick = Heffer, Squidward = Mr. Bighead.

His BSG appearance
His description of being on BSG was really interesting. I get that he was trying and being on the show was kind of a dream for him, but he really took me out of the episode. Like, they're doing this super-serious BSG infodump then John Hodgman wanders into frame making jokes.

I like how every suggested line but mine was written by Paul Dini.

Right, Croc isn't really that dumb, Batman just thinks he is.

No.