Let me present the flaw in applying that kind of logic to this episode.

A member of the Dark Hobo Army also shows up in FWWM to give Harry Dean Stanton an arm-haunted vision of the site where the kid gets hit by a truck.

I'd say that with Lynch, everything is supernatural, even if it hasn't revealed itself as so. Lynch's world is overflowing with magic.

Usually, when I give in and go to sleep before the review shows up on something I really want to discuss, I feel some resentment of the reviewer. This time, when I kept refreshing and saw no review, I completely understood.

"…and that Kubrick turned it into something else, involving a puzzle where the people themselves are ultimately the cause of the bad things they do…"

Wilder and Brooks co-wrote. Brooks directed it.

I thought it didn't work on wood.

That Zathras reference is perfect, down to their being multiple copies from the characters timeline.

You don't need to ram the fact that you were making a pun down his throat.

I've taken to watching it an hour late on the BBC America website with my ad blocker on.

I don't think so. I loved the Mad magazine parodies. I loved Hardware Wars. For that matter, I really liked Hitchcock movies and I liked High Anxiety. I'm fine with Star Wars mocking. It just didn't get as close the soul of the material it was mocking as Brooks other movies.

I think there was a bit of burnout. The Star Wars Roleplaying Game came out in 1987. I remember reading an interview with someone that worked on it. The license was easy to get because it was widely considered a "dead property" at the time. The Star Wars comic died in 1986, and you wouldn't see things like the…

I would be curious to see the pitch meeting for this. I can see Brooks going to the studio with a bunch of inspired parodies of movies he loved to indifferent executives before he decided to throw "Star Wars parody" at them to get a movie deal.

As a 15-year-old devoted fan of Brooks when this came out, I will confirm your theory. This was the first time he disappointed me. I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it.

Now we know. He was worried that Brooks would think he was exhausted if he closed his eyes.

That was my feeling when it came out. Brooks clearly loved old Universal monster movies, Hitchcock and Westerns, but he didn't seem to have any real interest in Star Wars.

Going back and watching SCTV back when Shout Factory put it out on DVD was a revelation. Both Moranis and Candy were so fucking versatile on that show. Once they got to Hollywood they mostly got stuck in their respective shticks. They were good at those shticks, but it was an enormous waste of talent.

I thought the audition was interestingly complicated. Her move of doing the man's part was great, but at the same time they were clearly showing us that Ruth is not great at acting. It was stilted and mannered in a way that only could have been intentional from Brie.

While I agreed with review that the length felt a little short for this pilot, I think this length is going to be perfect for the series going forward.

Brie is doing a good job of playing a bad actor. There is just a lack of authenticity to any acting she does as Ruth. The early audition scene did make a good jab at the kinds of roles women get, but it served a double purpose by having Ruth's performance be actually kind of crap.