I've been theorizing that they combined Jacques and Kit into one sibling for the show, but knowing what they get up to in later books, to put it non-spoilerishly, that could be trouble down the road.

My favorite is the Beaudilares' wide range of pop-culture knowledge, given to them by their parents. Everything from Murakami to Tito Puente.

Her family is partly or entirely responsible for Amway, Blackwater, and the Family Research Council. They're functionally supervillains.

Yeah, Strauss and Jerome, too. They definitely put a lot of that "this person could be a great guardian" feeling onto Monty.

Olaf killed their sister in a fire, but I don't think their age is ever established.

Yeah, it was right at the time the formula started to get stale, so even though it was well done, there's not much to specifically recommend it. VFD started with the next book, and that gives them something to hold onto.

I feel like another thing Handler probably finds amusing is when people take him at face value when he says stuff like that.

It's the least of the books, so it gives them the most to work with when expanding the story.

Christine Baranski as Esme, John Glover as Jerome, Paul Giamatti as Nero.

"We need to call the IT guy" killed me.

I kind of wish they'd found an actor with no hands - surely there must be some - because I'm always annoyed by the weird long hands of hook-handed people on screen, but he's so damn good, I stopped caring.

My suspicion with the parents is either A) They are being shown in an unindicated flashback to tease the audience with a happy ending, only to reveal - perhaps this year, perhaps at the end of the series - that it was all taking place a year or two ago, or B) They are the Quagmires.

I've only seen the first one, and I suspect you're right. Given the series' love of parallels between the Baudelaires and Quagmires, and the fact that The Austere Academy will start the next season, I'm leaning toward their parents.

This will eventually force Handler to make a concrete answer to whether or not Snicket was the taxi driver in book 12.

Freeman wasn't the dancing demon on Buffy, that was Hinton Battle. He was Mr. Trick, the Mayor's vamp-for-fire. Normally, I'd joke that you were being racist, but they actually have fairly similar voices and - when you account for the prosthetic monster makeup - faces, and there were so very, very few black people on…

Othello, I guess? Though he was misinformed. So was the dude in Cymbeline. And Much Ado. And The Winter's Tale. And The Merry Wi - Wait, did Shakespeare have a fetish?

Probably because that's not inherently part of it, though it is common. And since the alt-right DEFINITELY is being racist when they say it (it originally started in their circles as an explicitly racist insult, though now it just means "person who I don't like"), it's certainly worth mentioning.

In that they are not public utilities, yes.

"You totally answered the underlying point being made about what is deemed a forum on the internet."

"Can the gas company, a private company, shut off gas supply to someone they don't like?"