Wrong.  Lydia's daughter brings a Glock and a cup of hemlock to show-and-tell one day.  Walt hears about it up in New Hampshire and comes out of hiding to ensure that Holly does Lydia Jr. one better at their preschool.  He provides her with the gun he bought from Deadwood Guy and the vial of ricin, even though he…

I haven't come around yet to Hank being concerned primarily about his reputation and his desire for revenge.  There's something to be said for his argument to Skyler that he was the only one who could really help her, and I don't think he'd processed when he confronted her how deeply entangled she was—after all, he…

That was just a rather small bag which Walt didn't even fill, and part of it was to go to Saul's fees and his henchmen's pay.  Walt probably didn't leave much more than low six figures with him, if that.

I've actually had the implausibilities pull me out of the show more than once.  At one point I actually blurted out at the screen, "Are you fucking kidding me?!"  It was when the boy got poisoned and Jesse finds his cigar-ricin missing.  Instead of assuming that the boy had somehow stumbled upon it himself, Jesse…

I'd pay to watch Ford as a grizzled, crotchety archaeology professor spending 90 minutes intensely browsing the stacks of the university library looking for a paragraph from a student's term paper which he just knows is plagiarized.

The review's approach isn't really that unconventional.  Both Slate (http://www.slate.com/articl… and the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.c… made similar points in reviews which appeared before this one went up.  My wife and I happened on the show while flipping channels last night and both remarked that…

@mizerock:disqus Actually, it was Lennon who slathered the album with strings, much as one would assume the contrary.  I think "The Long and Winding Road" was a song which McCartney felt was particularly ruined by orchestration (added by Phil Spector, incidentally).  There seems to be a 2003 album called "Let It Be……

"Is there really 'nothing in the rules that says a snail can’t race' in the Indy 500?"  Looks like you missed another piece of recycling—an identical loophole in Babe which allows "Pig" to compete in the dog show.

"Let It Be" (the album) is pretty much notorious in this regard, I believe, and a source of tension between Lennon and McCartney, if I remember correctly.

You wouldn't make such glib jokes if you'd read my paradigm-wrecking dissertation, "That's What (s)He Said: The (Mis)Appropriation of the Feminine Voice to Af(firm) Heteronomative Masculinist Dominance through the Humor of the Imperialist Guffaw in Internet Jokes of the Second Decade of the Twenty-First Century…

Reminds me of Tom Waits saying he wanted to release an album of his favorite songs by other performers.  When asked if he meant a cover album, he replied, No, the album would include the original artists' original recordings, but with a picture, on the album sleeve, of him listening to them.

The American Communist Party has historically been a strong proponent of racial equality.  Something to keep in mind is that orthodox communists believe (to put things in the very simplest of terms) that the true conflict of modern times is between Capital and Labor, and that Capital deliberately turns Labor against…

My brother and I developed a theory that the Tori episodes were all a long dream shared by Zack and Slater, and that Tori was a physical manifestation of Zack and Slater's unspoken, thinly-concealed sexual attraction to each other.  If you watch the episodes in that light, they make a lot more sense with regard to the…

Potential Mike catch-phrases:

Was she the same woman who played the mutilated prostitute in Unforgiven?  (I could just check imdb, I guess, but if we're talking about 90s movies, we might as well replicate the experience of shooting the shit with strangers in a bar.)  I can better picture the scene now, but Arquette is still at the forefront for…

Weird.  I remember bits of that scene, but I never knew it was Gandolfini with Pitt, and thought the scene involved a couple of policemen.  I probably haven't seen the movie since it first came out (or was first released on VHS)—-was there another with Pitt getting asked questions by detectives, or has my memory just…

"If the character doesn't see himself as Clark Kent first and Superman second, none of his actions have any stakes since it's just an alien fighting another alien at that point."

Shortly after acquiring In-3D back in '84 or '85, I tried to find out what specific song was being parodied by "Nature Trail to Hell."  After that era's equivalent of Ask.com, my twelve-year-old older brother, had proved inadequate to the task of answering the question, I turned to that era's equivalent of Wikipedia:…

I was a huge fan of Al's through most of the 80s, but stopped listening after I stopped listening to the music he was parodying, so I've never heard "Everything You Know Is Wrong."  Maybe it's because there are almost two decades worth of TMBG material between now and then, or because TMBG is, in some ways, a band…

JD's increasing infantalization was, I would argue, more annoying than the ins and outs of his relationship with Elliot, and probably the thing which ruined the show for me.  I still remember an episode which ended with him on a scooter stopping to help an old woman with a flat tire.  As he drove off, the woman tried…