I thought this was a fun episode. Nice to see all the call backs, and the Kubrick homage was in the same vein as the Hitchcock tribute they did a few years ago…which I also enjoyed.

Did anyone else note the Sargent O'Brien Bad Cop name dropped in his scene with Gordon? It's the only Easter Egg I picked up on this week, i.e. I assume this is well before O'Brien becomes Chief of Police?

Or the Ballooniac!

I know I do!

Next week, L'il Harley and L'il Ivy go on the most adorable murder spree! Afterwards, Gordon takes them out for ice cream.

Eh. It wasn't terrible. I kinda like the Easter Egg hunt aspect of this series, so I didn't mind the Dollmaker and Arkham name drops. It's holding my interest, which is more than I can say for some new shows. It's been a while since I've seen Frank Whaley in anything. He was reasonably pretty back in the day; not so…

Puddin' Tame?
Sassmouth Hannigan?
Hello Kiddie?

What about "Catbrat?"

I'll admit I was genuinely charmed at the sight of the Marx Brothers (and Karl too!) all dancing together in Jewish heaven. And the couch gag was memorably weird. The rest of the episode was typical of latter day Simpsons: Not really terrible, or even particularly bad as such, basically inoffensive. Just nothing all…

So: Any guesses as to what would have happened next had the series been allowed to continue? And is there any realistic hope of Miller and Lord actually resurrecting the show at this late date? Always assuming they want to, natch. (Seriously, it originally aired over 10 years ago? Christ, do I feel old.)

The best part of the Makeover montages was Joan and Cleo's little "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!" in tune to the music, and a police siren doing the same thing immediately after they rob a bank. Although the camera cutting away from Scudworth and Mr. B. just before they enter "the Hilarious Costume Shop" is a close second.

One moment from Coulson that I liked: When he was pretending to be Talbot, and invited the guard he was scamming to come up and shake Talbot's hand the next time he saw the man. It was just such a gratuitously mean-spirited trick to play on the kid, I couldn't help laughing.

I do like the parody of For What It's Worth, especially Abe's distress at all the feuding surrounding him. Not the least of which is Mr. B. bouncing a rock off of Scudworth's head.

There's a little Godspell thrown in as well, isn't there?

"Old and irrelevant" about covers it. I think they both got pretentious to varying degrees - always a dangerous state of mind for comedy folk - and Curtis seems to have turned into quite the Prima Donna at some point if his comments about the making of BA Goes Forth are anything to go by. He's almost certainly the…

Now that it's done, I'd like to offer my heartiest contrafibularities to Kate for her highly enjoyable reviews, and thanks to the AV Club for giving us Blackadder fanatics the chance to yak about the dear show to our widdle hearts' contents. Yay.

I wouldn't say I hate it or anything. I did like the opening credit sequence with all the previously unseen Blackadders, the song at the end, and seeing the cast reunite. It was also nice to see Queenie, Nursie and Melchie one final time.

Mary: "Ah, Captain. I hope you're going to conduct yourself with a little more decorum this time."

"And so the Blackadder reviews end … too soon."

Also, she farts in bed!