I've never watched the show, but I remember coming into the bar where I played trivia regularly and it was on one time. I didn't think anything of it and just kind of wondered why that of all things. After a little bit I glance up at it casually and I'm like "Hey, what's Dave doing on that?" Turns out that one of the…

Yeah, but does Spartacus really focus on the slave experience or is just an excuse for shirtless violence and even more shirtless tits? Which, honestly, sounds a lot more fun than yet another dull, earnest drama designed to make bleeding hearts feel good about feeling bad about something.

Which is thankfully held against both series. I can't think of anything ever done by Klasky-Csupo that didn't look terrible.

There's no such thing as senseless destruction of snakes. They're snakes. We should destroy them all.

Among many of the other older series on here Mission: Impossible is definitely one that bears going back and working through. Ignore the more recent films and enjoy the often tightly-plotted scheming and planning.

Not just 90s, but while The Critic was created by Al Jean and Mike Reiss after they left two seasons as show runners on the Simpsons (seasons 3 and 4) Mission Hill was created by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein who had just left as show runners for seasons 7-8. So unless Dave Mirkin somehow goes back in time and…

It really has reached a ludicrous level. Not recently, true, but it's been this way for a while. It shouldn't be at the point that the musicians and the audience both legitimately need hearing protection. Sure, back in the 60s and 70s before PA was standard loudness started increasing, but there's no reason for it to…

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So only his hairdresser knows for sure?

I would disagree. Beauty and the Beast felt like yet another attempt to do the thing they've been focusing on heavily for the past several years of "ostensible genre show that's really just a teen drama" alongside straight teen drama. I found Arrow to be more or less unwatchable because it fell directly into this same…

And Kripke ended the show, as he intended to, at the end of season 5. But the producers wanted to keep making it so they threw in an extra scene and then just kept right on making it with a new show runner.

"It’d be cheap for Whedon to just bring back Coulson to give his show a recognizable face"

I believed it was an excuse for Disney to make Fables into an hour-long ad for Disney movies..

Much? Based on what I've seen of it RED was nothing like the comic. In the comic it was all about how people make monsters and then decide that they want them gone after they've served their purpose. The movie seems to be more of an action-comedy about retired assassins being wacky.

"What do I look like, 'Mental Organism Designed Only for Getting You Settled In?'"

Yeah, there were a couple of male sexbots in the showroom there. Sadly, pretty much all of the female ones weren't very attractive.

Seriously. Some of us don't want to see our family and never spent holidays visiting extended family to begin with.

Hearing about this Richie Incognito guy totally blew my mind. I wasn't even aware that it could be a real last name. Guy Incognito is somehow a completely legitimate name that a person could actually have. I'm astounded.

Could we maybe get a slavery drama that isn't just about Americans and African slaves for once? What about Nordic thralls or ancient Rome? If you really want to specifically explore the concept of slavery and not simply played-out racial issues it would make sense to look at it from a different historic period.

If anything this seems oddly sexist by being specifically marketed to girls in rather stereotypical sort of fashion (e.g. the color choices, an emphasis on making it "cute", etc.). What's wrong with Lego, Tinker Toys, K'nex, Capsela, Omagles or any of a wide array of completely gender-neutral building/engineering toys?