My wife and I have been watching this show as a guilty pleasure for a couple of years now. We had the chance awhile ago to show it to our best married couple friends. The episode we incidentally chose to show them included an extended plot of Ponch trying to resolve a checking account dispute at his bank. On the…

Re: 1: Freddy needed a drug mule. Based on Naz's recruitment of a new mule to take his place, the MO seems to be to find someone who's weak enough to need protecting and prod them toward the position in return for protection (without making the tradeoff explicit). IIRC, Freddy lost his initial drug connection (a…

I haven't seen anyone bring this up before, so—what if Stone is actually just a pretty shitty lawyer, at least for this case? He clearly has some skills, but they are of a particular set, best suited for hustling two-bit criminals through the system as quickly and painlessly as possible. His approach to the case up…

I understand he knows a trick or two for cheating Death.

"Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja"—now there's something I haven't thought about in years. I can't remember much about it now, except a vague recollection of the art seeming stilted to me. That would have been about the time when I was leaving comics behind, except for a few that really excited me, like Morrison's Doom…

I learned it through Lyle Lovett's "Step Inside This House," so for me it's always Lovett's version or TVZ's live one.

They'd have to rename it the AlbiGlensian Heresy.

Zombie anatomy is complicated. From what I can tell, zombification makes skulls quite mushlike (whipping one with a wet noodle would likely puree it); at the same time, zombification strengthens jaws and jaw muscles so that they can bite through anything short of steel. Muscles atrophy in the legs and arms,…

I've pretty much given up on caring about the "history" presented in movies and other media—I mean, if people want to believe that the Continental Congress broke into song and dance every few minutes, or that Jefferson needed a booty-call from Martha to get his creative juices flowing and write the Declaration of…

This is what my wife and I decided.  The whole theme of "You have to suspect everyone" was stressed at the beginning of the series.  There was a scene from an earlier episode which we remembered being filmed in a way to cast doubt on Mr. Miller (my wife, who's not drunk when we watch the show, remembered it as having…

Berenger's closing monologue from Ionesco's Rhinoceros.  It requires a variety of emotions, including some dramatic shifts.  Definitely incorporates frustration, and the failure to assimilate to the prevailing attitudes of the masses could be taken as a sign of insanity (or more probably as an island of sanity in an…

1912 election.  Hank is the corpulent Taft; Jesse is TR, the asthmatic kid who made himself into something greater when he finally applied himself.  Their divisions allow Woodrow Wilson (ie. Walter White—WW), a bookish intellectual to seize control and launch several ill-advised military campaigns against Mexicans…

James Spader.  But enough about my cat—this is interesting news.

A robot walks into a bar.

No, you're thinking of Mickey Mouse and Dumbo from The Killer.

Lil was I ere I saw Lil.

An opening diner scene with references to an old movie, the details of which the characters correct each other on.  In the same scene, a conversation about a former caper where disaster was narrowly averted, with reference to soiling oneself.  Then a scene between two characters discussing codes of behavior while one…

I have to place the Brazil game over the Canada game.  The greatness of the Canada game was marred by calls which remain controversial, the most controversial of which clearly helped the winning team (though I think Tancredi could have been ejected about twenty minutes in, the way she was playing, and I don't see…

I remember loving the first five minutes or so of this episode and being indifferent to the rest.  Your choice of quotes confirms my suspicion about how top-weighted the episode is.

Yeah, only one of those have I done on an airplane.  Did I ever tell you about that story?