Man, I KNOW he didn't just hate on the Keys and Peeles!

He did turn it off- the close-up with him leaning down nose-to-dial with it and complaining about how complicated Bob made the process was where he turned it off.

It's Linda's splurge now that she stopped buying porcelain babies.

I actually kind of liked that nothing bad happened- which is probably why the family thought they could get away with it. One second, tickling and swerving, cut to pulling in to the parking lot.

I'd give a lot of credit in this arena to Christopher Nolan's approach to Batman, most specifically Heath Ledger as the Joker. I'm sure everyone remembers the nerd-rage when the first stills of his makeup were released, but after we saw the performance that shut everyone up QUICK. It established that good writing,…

To be fair, Ollie was first introduced to Slade with an ass-kicking. Maybe that's just how he says "hello."

I'd say this show has earned enough goodwill that I'm willing to believe we'll see more of how the Ollie/Slade relationship reached its current state. We've undoubtedly got a whole back half of the season's worth of island adventures.

For Solomon Grundy, death's just a speed bump, really. My assumption is that whatever chemicals got sprayed on him won't just gray him up, they'll result in a unique combination that makes him different from the other Mirukuru subjects.

I actually thought the Kanye performance was particularly inspired throughout- you really got that when he left the house, he had it all set up in his head how Kim couldn't be a hobbit, that it all made complete sense when she explained it, and that even after the facade started to crumble he was still willing to take…

East/West Bowl 2 was a yawner, despite a few genuine laughs at silly names.
Suicide cultists were a little weak, but I liked the nice touches of kool-aid stains on their inside-out cult t-shirts (of which you could still see the logos)
Landlord sketch was exactly the right amount of crazy.
While "I'm not persecuted, I'm…

"Ha ha, won't be the first time I've fallen off a roof."

I've watched several of the same episodes on an iPad, on a standard HD TV, and on a larger screen with an excellent surround sound system, and it's amazing how much the feel of the show changes just by increasing the role the sound plays. I've never seen another TV show where sound design is that effectively used, and…

Fuller has mentioned (in his AVClub interview and elsewhere) that the scene from the first Eddie Izzard episode, where Will re-enacts the murder of the nurse, was problematic for him, as it's the closest the show came to sexualizing the violence, which is something he's deliberately avoiding. I found it suitably…

Yes! I looked forward to the food blog almost as much as I did the weekly episode. Just amazing stuff.

It's the faces of the three male leads (Mikkelsen, Fishburne, and Dancy) according to the DVD commentary.

There's a great story in one of the DVD interviews (may have been mentioned here in Brian Fuller's interview as well) that the kneeling blood angels was one of the few shots that the network censors balked at. Not because of the horrifying body mutilation, but because of the visible buttcracks on the man and the…

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We don't really know all of Ra's (or the League's) motivations in the Arrow-verse; all we really know is that he doesn't like people going off-script. We know what Canary's sin was, but not Malcolm's.

I didn't mind that, since he's not the same kind of scientist as Felicity (as she calls attention to, herself). We're already seeing how the police are adapting to having their systems frequently hacked, so it's getting more and more difficult for Felicity to get all the lab work they need to have done. If a couple of…

I particularly loved "Yes, we have SOME of those things, but you absolutely should not make your own homemade zipline."