What's THAT extra B for?

Or the real life version, frankly.

Sorkin's work is chock full of people who love and believe in their jobs, and as a result, they often fall into the "tough but fair" style of authority figures. Isaac Jaffe's a great example, but my favorite Sorkin is probably The American President. Yes, I'm fully aware that it's an unrealistic Fantasyland version…

"Yeah. You see how you scum."

I recommend you just go with "Skull-de-sac"

I'm usually 100% behind this kind of snark (I mean "snark" in the best sense, btw), especially after decent-but-hardly-great films like Argo and Shakespeare in Love won tons of awards by jerking off Hollywood.

I'd choose You Only Move Twice as the one episode to see again for the first time. I'd somehow not seen any of the promotional material, and had no idea that Hank Scorpio was a supervillian. I still remember sitting in a friend's home, and being dumbstruck by that second act break. My friend summed it up perfectly,…

If forced to choose a single Simpsons episode to watch for the rest of my life, it might be "Kamp Krusty*." Every joke lands perfectly for me, and my desire to see more of Mr Black is tempered by how perfect he was as a one-shot character (see also: Dr Wolf the dentist.)

DC, Image and Marvel should just write Millar checks for his concepts, then hire someone else to actually do the writing. Every book he writes has a compelling idea (Red Son is no exception) that is completely squandered by his terrible writing. Red Son is one of his better stories simply by default; he got one…

Exactly. Jones explicitly says this in his autobiography "Chuck Amuck." Bugs MUST be provoked, otherwise the audience won't root for him ("of course you know this means war!" etc, etc.) Bugs is a very rare thing: a comedic character who is also a winner, and what lets him win is that he's not retaliating against…

Leopold!

I will bend time and space to make an hour last 63 minutes if it means we can add "Dead" to this (already excellent) list.

This movie blows. It has no redeeming qualities. Its popularity is even more mystifying since there have been multiple good-to-great teen flicks between then and now. It would have made more sense to have been a hit at first, then quickly forgotten as better stories were told. Hassenger notes in the article,…

A fun past time for the last 2 decades has been to occasionally go through old a.t.s. archives at snpp.com and read about how damn near every single episode after Lisa's Substitute has at least one person declaring it the Beginning of the End for the show. There are people on this planet who didn't like Kamp Krusty.…

Vast, vast piles of art are done in service to commerce. The catalyst isn't as important as the result, and the result here was fucking hilarious.

By 95, I'd long since abandoned the X-books for devolving into boring post-Claremont borderline fanfic, so I scoffed and passed over Age of Apocalypse when it was on the shelves. It wasn't until nearly a decade later, while holed up during a particularly cold winter weekend, that I downloaded the whole event and…

You, Mr O'Neal, are a national treasure.

Like I said, I understand why it's there. And it's not out of character or unwarranted. It just rubs me the wrong way.

Art Spiegelman's "Murderer." at the end of Maus (book 1.)

I love that one. Similarly (and from a similar era, I believe) was "Top Ten Reasons The British Lost The Revolutionary War," which included