I refuse to canonize or interpret robot testicles.

Bad news: Robot testicles. Doesn't matter if they're in this movie; they were in one of the Transformers movies and thus canon.

So, I actually quite enjoyed this story. I thought the Doctor added some good bon mots, but the reason I liked it was because it made me think about Doctor Who.

I don't disagree that we shouldn't put everything on the table, but the arts... those are slim pickens. We're talking less than 1%. It's not even represented on the chart above. However, the military is a behemoth. The question should be, "why is it so large?" Also, seems to me there are other places to get money…

The thing is, there are larger programs we can cut. I'm looking at you, military. We spend more on defense than the countries with the three largest armies spend combined. The British navy, when it ruled the world, had a simple rule - spend twice as much as the army closest to your own power spends. Sounds like a good…

Wait... did he just say $0.43 of every tax payer dollar was going to go to video games? And no one bothered to challenge him on that figure? $0.36 of every dollar went towards defense spending in 2009 and I'm sure that figure is larger by now. Is that guy seriously saying the government wants to give more to video…

Don't forget "being forced to watch Carrot Top."

So wait, what's covered in other? Murder? Falling in the bathtub? A tree leaping out of the wilderness and eating you? Yeah, I could look it up in the paper, but there is a group of monkeys outside and they're mean-mugging me. I believe this is also under the heading of 'Other.'

Food? You bunch of materialists.

Well, to be fair, season 1 was in 1963. Almost everything was a little cheesy back then. But there were still some gold moments in those early years.

Really? That one guy who, in the premiere, was shown as a serial rapist and then just got worse from there with his teenage comments about hard-ons and whatnot doesn't set your teeth on edge? Or that Cyberwoman episode? I keep hearing CoE is good, so I'm trying to slog my way to it.

Actually, it wasn't in color until season 7.

Alright, so I've tried making it through the first season and so far, I can't stand the show. I want to, but the characters are so odious and the writing is so adolescent that I just can't get into it.

Hang on, are you certain he incorrectly predicted 1994 as the end of the world?

I majored in Asian history in college (waaaay back in the day). It really gave me an appreciation for how ancient the world is and how euro-centric we can't help but be. I know I constantly catch myself making those sorts of mistakes.

Wait... which great wall? They built it enough times...

Westerners (of which I am one) often seem to forget that there was a whole wide world of history going on for several thousand years and that our little stint at the "top" is comparatively recent.

Okay, but there's also the Chinese calendar, the Korean calendar, the Hindu calendar, the Xhosa calendar, the Thai solar calendar...

It's always a good sign when one of your propositions is, "No, really, we're not crackpots."

I think Nolan could find a way to make the Lazarus Pit work without getting too outlandish. Nuclear waste and all that. Maybe Talia will find her father's body and take him to this pit filled with toxic waste and dump him in. He returns to life as a new hero called The Drizzle!