Normally I'd agree, but I think Jackson's The Hobbit films are a special case because it's impossible to watch them without fan-editing them in your head. There's a really good adaptation of one of the most popular books of all time in there, it's just being suffocated by extraneous flotsam and jetsam.

The "Dwarfed Edition" linked previously from this site seems like it does an even better job of just cutting out all the added orc crap completely, the barrel sequence starts with the barrels going down the chute and then just cuts immediately to them washing up on the shore and being discovered by Bard, which is much…

Agreed on the DH. It seems to me that baseball players who are payed millions of dollars per year should be able to manage batting two or three times every five days.

The AFC/NFC thing doesn't really make much sense, though I think the AL/NL thing is slightly less ridiculous in baseball, mostly because if your team is in the NL but doesn't make it to the series, rooting for the NL* is basically rooting for "anyone but the Yankees or Red Sox." There's not really ever been that same…

Yeah, the "Get On Your Feet" thing is probably the single funniest scene of sustained comedy I've ever seen on TV. It's amazing for how long it goes on, which at first just seems like kind of a "rake effect" gag of everyone slipping on the ice, but it then starts escalating perfectly, repeatedly in a truly sublime way.

One could almost argue that Review (great as it is) is not really a "sitcom" in the classic sense.

True, they have done a number of "ripped from the headlines" stories. The difference is that everything they've done previously holds up on its own without the real-world context. For example, I don't think you really need to know about the Obama "birther" thing to enjoy the ride where Leslie finds out she was born in…

Yeah, it made me question whether the game actually had that theme song since it predated the show by almost a decade.

Took me a sec, but then I was like "Hey, I used to play that game on the Apple IIe at the library!" and then I felt very, very old.

Yeah, I mean, it's not the end of the world, but every joke they make about the Cubs winning the world series or Kevin James being in the Bourne Identity reboot just makes me think "that is going to be really hard to explain to anyone who watches this in two years."

Well, sure, but that TV costs $120k and non-millionaires don't own them.

I guess they can kind of justify it as the tablets being weird prototypes by "Grizzyl," which kind of makes some sense in that they're a sort of slantwise equivalent of Google Glass rather than an actually widely adopted consumer product like an iPad. I still think all the "it's the future!" jokes are an unfortunate…

Yeah, the relationship with Ryan just feels totally hollow after Jess & Nick. We keep being told that they like each other, but the don't really seem to have any chemistry and Ryan just seems like a Stepford boyfriend, like we're going to find out he's an axe murderer or something eventually.

Yeah, the not-great reviews are most of the reason that I haven’t gotten around to it yet.

Is Sherlock going away too? I might have to hurry up and watch Season 3 before the 31st.

They're actually just different types of small dogs.

That line brings down the house at pet funerals and the like.

Pretty sure it's "Brad," not "Brett." I say this as someone who gets asked if they speak English in What on a semi-regular basis. Also as someone whose name routinely gets misheard as "Brett" (though, as a Wisconsinite, that doesn't happen quite as often since Favre's fall from grace).

Yeah, the whole thing is pretty inescapably problematic, but that comes from the source material. The dialogue is all from the stage play, which is from a century ago and meant to be childlike (hence pretty much everyone except Wendy being essentially sexless).

Definitely agree that this was an improvement on Sound of Music Live! from a production standpoint (and blessedly absent any American Idol alumni), though that one was probably still more enjoyable overall just by virtue of the source material being so much better. Williams was fine enough as Peter Pan, though her…