Duly noted about "N'awlins," but it's mostly just a tip of the hat to the intentionally ridiculous way Principal Skinner pronounces "New Orleans" in Chief Wiggum: P.I. That's quite the deep cut, admittedly.

Replying a week late to this, but I will say that I totally would have listed something like that; the reason I didn't is that TV Guide doesn't include Nat Geo Wild in its show listings (at least not the ones I get), so I missed it. I generally wouldn't ignore a legitimately interesting show in favor of something…

Yeah, I was rounding the running times for the sake of ease of writing/reading. (I mean, once you cut out commercials, I imagine the whole thing probably doesn't even reach four hours, but that wouldn't really be the right way to refer to its length either.)

Yeah, no great excuse there, other than I've been a bit under the weather and it took forever to think of something to say about this one beyond, "Yeah, that was a pretty good episode." The shift from 7:30 to 9:30 is great for ratings (I mean, I hope), but makes reviewing a bit harder.

So, I wrote this thing in a Howard Johnson in western Virginia, which meant I didn't really have a way to rewatch and check anything I didn't get in my notes from the initial broadcast. Fixed now, and thanks for making such a Tina-appropriate correction!

Oh, no, I completely agree, and sorry if I didn't quite get across that the lack of twist was not something I saw as an issue. I actually considered writing "That's not a bad thing!" at one point, just to really underline it, but it felt like I'd done that before, and I wanted to avoid a potential writing tic. I just…

Yeah, I imagined it was down to rights issues. But I found the joke marginally better if I played dumb.

Right-o.

I mean, you still read about it, so…

And just when I thought spellings of my name couldn't get any more ridiculous.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh…

Yes.

In this economy?

I think this has something to do with the odd distinctions between profanity and obscenity. I'm not sure anyone — even the people who came up with this stuff in the first place — ever argued it makes a lick of sense.

I'm not crying, you are!

He could've been waiting for Bob after all this time!

No worries and no hurt feelings. I'm responding just because I do actually care about what you all think (which really might not be a good thing, but what the hey) and want to make sure I'm not losing the thread of these reviews. I've read off-the-wall reviews in my time, and I'm not always a big fan of them myself,…

I'd like to think that, in context, the stuff you described doesn't read quite as ludicrously as you made them sound. Mostly, I just don't like being yelled at by Bender. Although if I had to be yelled at by anyone, I guess he's who I'd choose.

Sigh … I dunno, I thought it would be interesting to explore in more specific detail how animation lets you do things that live-action can't. It's an off-format review, but I figured it could be interesting to mix things up every now and then. Sorry if this one didn't work for people, but my sanity (and compliance…

Todd and Sonia were like wild horses. I'm more of a petulant mule.