i just find it funnier than these other shows. I'm not demanding HDTGM be covered weekly - may point is none of these shows are varied enough to warrant weekly coverage in this limited column.

right, but is Flophouse really so transcendent that it needs to be covered every week? This week: another terrible movie! Surprise!

i do NOT get Podmass's undying loyalty to The Flop House, when the far superior (i.e. funnier) How did this Get Made is available. Maybe it's just me - i do not find Flop House funny. Why cover it (almost) weekly, when the number of podcasts covered/reviewed are limited?

i had no clue on this, didn't know Streisand or Fanny. I figured it was either "plastic surgery" or "abortion" - though the former is not specific enough, and the latter too controversial for Jeopardy.

i guess they're tired of all the Triple Stumpers in FJ.

Chocolate Salty Balls, or GTFO

i was surprised Rooks didn't give the "Before i was born" excuse. Jeez. The Third Man? Citizen Kane? The Invisible Man is even more execrable b/c there's NO WAY it's in AFI's top 20.

i hold out hope that St Louis-centered Wherenberg Theaters hang tough. Not because i want to see this movie so badly, but because i want to see what NK Terrorists could POSSIBLY have in store. They're a bunch of hackers, what are they gonna do? Reroute the natural gas lines like in Die Hard 4?

but…i guess they don't tell kids ahead of time that "if you don't finish in the black, you don't get to play FJ"? It's been a while since i've seen Celebrity Jeopardy, but don't they spot the celebs a couple grand to wager in FJ if they finish DJ in the red?

wasn't 3 Days to Kill more of a comedy than anything? i think Costner's performance is mostly informed by the comedy, and he's actively NOT trying to be Neeson, or even Brosnan (November Man). Granted, i FF'd thru a lot of the Father-Daughter stuff when i rented it…

of all the crazy balls-out stunts that Tom Cruise pulls, opening Mission: Impossible 5 one week after Star Wars might be the ballsiest. I mean, i know he puts something out every Christmas, but he's just begging for "Cruise comes up short again" headlines. I mean, i know all his movies bank huge overseas, but don't…

ugh. is there anything in this world that is more inevitable than SNL's Sherlock sketch with Tarren Killam as Cumberbatch? i can hear the chopped delivery from here…

as far as the Achilles goes - i always think they should let it go when it's a "i've never heard it said out loud" - on either Jeopardy or WOF. Like teh inverse of how FJ allows misspellings, as long as it matches phonetically

if your goal is to prove to america how smart you are, you go on Jeopardy. If you want to WIN MONEY EASILY you go on WOF. There are so many ways to lose on Jeopardy, and you only get $2000, max, if you don't come in first. Everyone on WOF keeps their winnings, although those trips & prizes can go hang.

it would be interesting to see the Dress Rehearsal audience's reaction - they're usually a little more enthusiastic than the VIPs who can pull tickets to the main show.

i chalked it up to audiences being uncomfortable with the subject matter - how an audience will respond with *groans* or "oooohs" instead of laughs. but yeah. they needed to just open with Che doing a solid block of standup-style editorializing, or something.

so, did Cumberbatch wait this long to sign his deal because he wanted to see how well The Imitation Game was received? If it had been a huge smash/coming-out party, would he have left Marvel hanging?

yeah, i remember renting that movie and thinking it LOOKED way better than it actually was. I barely remember the back half of it - something about Malkovich's general babbling about the empty space in atoms, or something? I dunno - i just remember a "still looks like she's in the Rocketeer" JenCon on some…

i always thought it was Baldwin who shirked the "burying" duty, and got his friend killed. It just made Baldwin's character that much more repugnant and pathetic. It made sense for his character to be lazy and make assumptions - but if i'm wrong (likely am), then i'll have to reconsider it.

they fridged the black friend, huh?