I had a similar first viewings / later viewings response of "finally, somebody's taking the character seriously / OK, maybe not so much" with Burton's. With Nolan's, it was more like "This time they finally really took the character seriously like he deserves / You know, when you get down to it, this is a pretty silly…

The knife thrower was played by Throwdini as Himself. We can only hope they have Throwgali on by the end of the season.

I read it the same way. And didn't Mythbusters already do this one? (Obscenity, not obesity)

Son of Morning features Jesse Bradford was excellent in Steven Soderbergh’s King Of The Hill (or at least, say Rabin, I didn't see it) and Stephen Root who was excellent in Mike Judge's King Of The Hill. Coincidence? Of course it was.

I assume Nedna won because the kind of person willing to dignify the gimmick by voting is also the kind of person who enjoys the random character joining plot machine that's been in use for the last 10 to 15 years.

Thanks for the clarification.

I'm no law talking guy, but could she get disbarred if she buys a baby?

Oddly, Joe Pepitone's great great (?) grandfather actually was the guy chiefly responsible for buying up the land for Central Park and evicting the residents via eminent domain.

I'd gotten most of the way through season 2 when I realized the big wall in the project, the hour long eps of season 4, weren't on Netflix instant, and were actualy spread out over 10 or 20 disks with other random episodes.

I can't think of anybody who's benefited from the fall of Gaddafi more than Spinal Tap.

His intro in this ep summed it up pretty well - "a man who can and will do anything."

Ambush Bug on TV? That's got some serious oedipal overtones, man.

Previously on
It is basic cable, so you're going to get channel surfing hop ons. But I've always taken their pointlessness as the joke.

I'd be more willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that they were finding new ground to plow if they didn't go with the SUV joke right there in the title. But the extra colons give me a little hope.

Of course, it was established pretty early that his ballonophobia doesn't extend to blimps - although he has been known to question their accuracy.

They ought to get Bill James et al to come in and do a "tomato share" for actors where they do a weighted average of the films the director & the rest of the cast have done without them and see how much higher (or lower) the score of that movie is. But that might just be taking things too far.

What was with the shoes?
I mean, throwing shoes? Honestly, who does that?

I think it was just a segment on one of their inside sci-fi show or whatever it was called. I recall him being cranky about stuff on it.

PENGUINS CAN'T FLY!

The opening
Sketch comedians opening their movie with two moderately funny sketches unrelated to the plot is not so much brave and ballsy as it is a sign that they didn't have enough plot for a whole movie.