Yeah, that shot of the hats is good stuff. For all my talk of cinematic cheating, I did have one friend who guessed the end of the movie pretty early on based on that image.

For sure cinema is fake. And I don't even have a problem with obviously fake cinema like sci-fi. I'm cool with Tesla's machine being right out of The Twilight Zone. But The Prestige does choose to forgo certain conventional signs that typically tip viewers off to the genre they're dealing with. It's Nolan's (and, I…

Oh, there's plenty of foreshadowing, and it's great. The cheat I was referring, though, to was what @avclub-34ee49ced5744eeb86d6e8e9661634aa:disqus referred to, where the potential problem is that for much of the movie, the plot presents itself as a realist story when it's actually a sci-fi one. So it sort of lies to…

It does sort of cheat the viewer, but I loved it when I first saw it. Of course, I was like in high school, so there's that.

Tesla: "I have not succeeded. I have just found 10,000 things that work. Suck it, Edison."

The car? Pish-posh! Everyone knows the hat is the best.

And yet it IS true that he invented a duplicating machine that was appropriated by magicians for nefarious purposes.

For real. "Christmas in the Car" was maybe the most I have ever laughed at Bob's Burgers.

I've always thought the show was a little better at drama than comedy anyway, so that's good news!

YES!! After the perfection of that final string of episodes in Series 2, it's good to hear that 3 hasn't lost its way. I'm so glad this new season is finally on Hulu; I take it it aired in the UK long ago?

Nelson's incensed "I can think of at least two things wrong with that title" remains one of my favorite Simpsons line-deliveries ever.

Years before I ever went to Knoxville, this episode had me convinced that it was a wasteland of wig shops and World's Fair wreckage. I was legitimately surprised to see a few skyscrapers when I first visited.

Speaking of Louis CK, there's also that scene in Louie where he and that other guy freak the fuck out over some turbulence. Which never ceases to be hilarious.

Also: "My leg!!"

Not to mention Diane's "Norman" a beat later.

I absolutely love the "Sound of Silence" running gag on Arrested Development S4, especially how it keeps getting more and more ridiculous with each iteration. I died when they did it with that random thug on the wharf.

True, neither the books nor the movies are masterpieces or anything. And yeah, there is a cool subversive element to the proceedings. I also enjoy the media critique embedded in the story, too. But for me, everything just feels so much more developed in the movies, which is weird considering that Katniss is explaining…

I read Mrs. Dalloway for a class a few months ago, and it pretty much blew me away. I was pleasantly surprised at how enjoyable it was to read, even when the experimentation made it hard to tell what was going on.

I just finished reading Catching Fire and Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis. I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but man, I can't believe how much better the Hunger Games movies are than the books. Something about being freed from the stale Katniss narration, I guess.

BSG is tricky because it basically has two potential pilots. If you call the miniseries the pilot, then I'd say it most definitely isn't one of the best pilots ever. But if you consider "33" the pilot, then heck yeah! That episode rocks.