The first thing that I thought of was that if you shook the snow globe, and it causes an earthquake in the town where the snow globe is, then the snow globe itself would be shaken, causing an endless perpetual earthquake. While inconvenient to the people currently living in the area, this is a source of unlimited…

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Agreed. People have resigned in Illinois over sending vaguely campaign related messages from their government email address. The Democrats in Chicago used city workers for years to do political work. It still happens on a regular basis, but they're much much more careful.

The goddamned Enterprise has crashed into the nebula!

I think this might be a blast to see in the theater with a bunch of other fans. Especially if everyone's seen it before and you can basically watch and talk over the whole thing. Potential theater cult classic.

As of right now there's 68 reasonable discussions about The Office compared to 254 for Parks and Rec. Community won't be posted until TVW reaches 50,000 words or the show is renewed (whichever comes last), but commenters likely  have ~700 reasonable comments queued up in response to the episode.

I'M MARIAN COATSWORTH-HAY!

I like the snow-boarders, but the Jesus stuff was such a crock. Yeah, prayer and Jesus really helped him with his jealousy issues. It's not like the free Mustang he won had anything to do with his jealousy 180.

Jurassic Park is a fantastic movie with annoying kids.

Am I the only one that doesn't really consider Birdemic to be, how do I say this, a movie? Troll 2 had studio funding. The Room was independent, but had a budget in the millions. Yes, Birdemic is an independent "film," but it was made for under $10,000. For comparison, Clerks was made 14 years earlier for $30,000. And…

There's two problems with Shutter Island. 1. The twist. 2. The twist is so outrageous that it clearly draws attention to itself throughout the narrative. Viewers are waiting for it, expecting it, and not getting fully absorbed into the movie because of it.

The song "You're So Vain" was, in fact, written… by me.

Disagree. I learned a lot about life from watching Dinosaurs with my dad.

See, I was liking this gimmick until you had to drag an AVClub author into it. And it's not your insipid sexism; it's breaking the fourth wall. To the best of my knowledge, Jonathan Frakes really posts on the TNG forums, as well as an intrepid journalist interviewing Rick Berman. If either one ever mentioned playing…

Does the Dolphin think he's a person or is it the computer that thinks he's a person? Doesn't matter. Let's cast Ben Rappaport as the Dolphin, Josh Cooke as the Computer, and Amber Heard as the will-they/won't-they romantic love interest.

I blurted out Traffic, and then I back-pedaled on myself. Shit, that was Benicio Del Toro, am I racist? How could I mix those two up? Then I remembered that they were both in it by episode's end.

Don't worry. TVW is currently writing a 15,000 word auto-biographical essay on this exact subject. It should be posted by Saturday.

I completely agree. And yet I now know that I'm going to watch this show until it goes off the air. It's fascinating to me how different and awful the writing, pacing, characters and jokes can be on the same show with the same actors as one I loved a few years ago.

This episode was great in pointing out that every valid quality everyone hates him for, is one he legitimately loves himself for. He could give a damn if they think he's a slave to routine, the guy is genuinely happy.

I felt like Tom might as well have been talking to the audience. I really take it as a device, one that works surprisingly well.