Don't Fuck With The Babysitter.
Love Adventures in Babysitting. My favorite Elizabeth Shue movie that doesn't appear naked in. Though I never got the whole "I'll just write this check over to you" spiel. Can you actually do that with a check? I need to check my old Home Economics text…

Also Mac and Sweet Dee in "The Gang Finds a Dumpster Baby."

Leave the gun, take the canoli.
My mom showed me The Godfather when I was twelve. Changed my life.

Hey, a Wire reference!
Is Micheal's piss balloon story the first actual Wire reference we've had since Elba came on?

Ender's Game is one of my favorites, well deserving of a reread every couple of years. The whole quartet is amazing. But if only he'd left well enough alone….the new one, Ender in Exile (which takes place between Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead) is horrid.

Harry Potter's not popular? I adore those books. They kick Twilight in its pointy teeth.

A movie of The Navidson Record (I don't think it's 'report,' but I could be wrong) would be really cool, especially with Aronofsky, but I'm pretty sure that Mark Danielewski has gone on record as saying he'd never let the book be adapted. Something about the integrity of the experience only being available through…

Oh, hells yes on The Giver, Luckee. What a wonderful book, one of my favorites. Also check out Number the Stars if you haven't yet.

It's not dicey at all, Sil quotes that line in the show, doesn't he?

Observer Watch 2009
He passed behind the news reporter on Charlie's TV.

John Irving was the Sleepy Hollow guy, right?

A Game of Thrones is fantastic, but I have a hard time getting people to read it because of the "high fantasy" setting. But it's so gritty, and reads more like historical fiction. Great, great books.

You're dead on the money, Pilgrim, about House of Leaves being style over substance. I tell everybody who's interested in it to just read the parts that take place in the house, because that's an interesting story. But everything else is a slog.

There are some really great YA titles out there that aren't about abstinence vampires. How about Speak by Laura Halse Anderson (I think that's the author)?

Great Idea!!
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell — Susanna Clark
American Gods — Neil Gaiman
The Stand — Stephen King

Wasn't he crying when he was, you know, holding his dead wife in his arms?

Keepin' it on the DL
I'm calling it now, Luke doesn't have a new girlfriend. He has a new boyfriend. Take tonight's revelation that he's seeing someone new, put it next to Oliver's complaints last session about his dad's guy friends spending all night at his house, keeping him awake. That'd either be a really…

Victory or Death!!
I was about four and my mom was watching The Last Starfighter. I love that movie now, but it scared the shit out of me when I first saw, namely the scene when Alex first gets to the starbase, and he steps on the tentacles of this ugly-ass alien, and the alien freaks out at him. I still remember…

There were unaired episodes of John From Cincinnati? Would it have helped? I doubt it.

*To me…