Most of the presidents did more good for the country than Coolidge did. That's what puzzles me about his ranking.

See, here's what I don't get. Coolidge and Buchanan had more or less the same minimalist governing style. Sit back, don't do much, let the situation sort itself out on its own. Both of their presidencies left a major meltdown for the next guy to have to deal with. Yet only Buchanan is sent to the bottom of the…

I think the point is less to do with whether Lincoln was a saint or not and more to do with the fact that he's pretty much the exemplar of a US president who was willing to see a war all the way through to the end, even a really, really shitty and devastating one like the Civil War, if he felt it was the right thing…

You sometimes see Pierce, Harding, or Johnson in the spot, but really, Buchanan is pretty hard to beat for sheer incompetence.

Butts?

Especially given that everyone expected him to be pro-slavery, so much so that they felt the need to balance the ticket with the allegedly-antislavery-but-actually-a-giant-douchebag Millard Fillmore. Taylor shocked them all. And then he had that quote about personally hanging any secessionists, which is pretty great.…

Or freaking shooting each other, and burning down each other's towns in Kansas and Missouri.

I grew up in South Dakota, where it was the same thing with Calvin Coolidge. Yay, he funded Mount Rushmore! Yay, he had a summer cabin in the Black Hills! Crash of 1929? What? Nononono, that was *Hoover!* He magically willed that into being in the eight months he was in office before that happened.

And he doesn't have a wax replica of himself in the Daily Show's prop closet, unlike his illustrious successor.

Is it just me, or did the Wax Andrew Jackson that was briefly visible in Colbert's video look more like Polk than Jackson? And Wax Van Buren looked kind of like Quincy Adams.

Obviously I was referring to the second list. :-P

And Battlestar Galactica. And Dark Matter. And Killjoys. And 12 Monkeys. And all the various Stargates. And Defiance. And more that I'm forgetting.

I feel like Capaldi did a remarkably good job of channeling Baker at times, especially in Season 9.

Me too. River's great.

It doesn't help that Paul has an uncanny similarity in looks to Paul Ryan.

When he pulls off the final mask, he will be revealed to be… Zathras.

Because his role was played by a hairy headless corpse in this episode? Sheesh. :-P

The Don S. Davis tribute, on the other hand, was somewhat less respectful.

Yeah, I can't imagine what could possibly be implausible about a omnifunctional computational device open doors, weld metal, hack computers, repel invaders, raise the dead, and do a billion other things with no user interface to speak of, either for input or output.

No, you're absolutely right. I, too, miss the heady, uncompromising hard science that Doctor Who used to dish out, like that time that Rose cracked open the hood on the TARDIS and it suddenly turned her into a godlike figure with the power to leave graffiti all over time and space, instantaneously deus ex away an…