Yeah. The same YEAR. And they're so wildly different in style; how did Brooks manage to shift gears like that?

PUDDDMMM OMM DA RIZZZZSSHHH

The one really funny bit in "Dead and Loving It"

Batman's a scientist!

I understand that's the point, but it's authenticity did nothing to alleviate my discomfort and hatred of that kid. Intentionally baking a shit pie doesn't keep it from tasting like shit.

Every once in a while, my response to "where's so-and-so?" will be "I beat him to death with a rake.

Sounds like he's also the Mark Millar of television, although way less repugnant.

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,…