When I saw that thrasher going by, looking more than two lanes wide, I was feeling like my day had just begun.

And a dog, Mop Top, replacing the mysteriously vanishing dog from the original series, who we learned in the ‘90s had been run over when he left the set. The pandas were called Ping and Pong. Can’t recall the bird’s name. Myron the mynah bird? The animals were added at the command of then-ABC big man Fred Silverman,…

Also, it’s complete bullshit that there is a crime on the books called “attempted murder of a police officer.” Being a cop is a job, nothing more.

It feels horrible to write this, but I am increasingly relieved that I am a middle-aged white male instead of a Black man or woman of any age. Forget walking while Black, shopping while Black, all those other “while Black” cliches. Existing while Black gets you killed by cops and random asshats. And I don’t know what…

Never mind. It’s late and I am very tired. Please forgive my stupidity.

All? I think not. Julie Brown!

Imagine how much better it would have been without Max.

I wondered, watching the Moffat/Gattis series, why Dracula, who picked up his command of English by dining on a rather posh-sounding Brit, had a lower-class accent. Also, the third episode ... oy.

Thank you for using the word “memetic” properly.

You’re a poor excuse for a troll.

Damn you, you made me think about The Nostalgia Critic, those crappy “comedy” sketch inserts, and the whole sexual harassment thing.

I see that I misspelled Lloyd Webber’s last name, not realizing that until editing window elapsed. Of course, mullets also misspelled it.

It’s clear to anyone reading with the necessary attention, which in this case is not much. Ignatiy is assuming some knowledge of the event musicals of the last 40 years. This is the A.V. Club, where such knowledge can be assumed to be common. I don’t care for Lloyd Weber much, but I do know that he wrote the music for…

Does the phrase “I take this stuff far too seriously” sound familiar?

When a work is wholly derived from an existing, well-known work, it’s understandable that both reviewers and more-informed audience members are going to judge the derived work based on how well it uses the material that led to derivation. One can judge it as a separate creation, but unless the derived work uses only…

“I have not read the comics and WILL NOT.” That’s as close-minded an attitude as someone thinking every reviewer should be at least familiar with the characters and story of the comics. Probably more so.

There was no island of psychics. There was the brain of one dead human psychic, which was used as the basis of the psychic assault weapon in the fake alien. The fake alien’s brain sent out nothing but horrible images, and those drove millions of New Yorkers who survived the initial shock wave of teleportation into…

You reversed the change in Richie's occupation. In the novel and miniseries, he was a stand-up comic. In Chapter Two, he's been updated to a loudmouth radio host.

P-p-preservatives! Rory Calhoun, man.

“It’s a tribute to Thornton Wilder,” the director was heard to wheeze, after snorting a line off the raptor costume’s tail.