Gruber. The villain of Love, Actually was clearly the kid in the cockblocktopus costume.

I'm definitely assuming that, because a universe where the last thing David Bowie and Alan Rickman see is that asshole is just too horrible to contemplate. No, I'd never insult Death by insinuating that he's Dick Cheney.

Not buying it. Death & Cheney cut a deal long ago, the monster's clearly Protected™.

Not un-rewatchable, though. I find it touching every time.

"Here come the waterworks!"

No love for the episode of Family Ties where Michael J Fox's character has his psychotic break, and most of the episode consists of nothing but him alone on a darkened, silent set, grappling with his inner demons off-off-off-off-Broadway style?

Inside Marshall Bell's torso, yes?

Which raises the question, who's been folding the trainwrecks!?

Micro-brouhaha.

Not any capable of conception, that's for sure.

Absolutely, it was one of the most original and innovative superhero series I've seen in a long time. The thing that made it so special, I've come to believe, and the secret to its success — in the artistic sense, that is, since obviously it didn't find commercial success; though I've been waging a steady campaign to…

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of how hard I was waiting for Colton Haynes and Stephen Amell to JUST BANG ALREADY!!!, all last season on Arrow.

Oh, sure, they could. But, I agree with your original point that they've been sort of ambivalent about the young-Clark-Kent version of Superboy for quite some time. I think the've come to recognize it as the dated and, frankly, cheesy concept that it is, and decided to let that sort of fall by the wayside in favor of…

The modern-day DC universe model for "Superboy" is the black-tee-shirted, red-S-logo'd Connor Kent, Superman's Cadmus-grown clone who exists alongside the adult Clark/Superman, rather than a younger version of Superman himself. Which is something, honestly, that they've begun to make work.

Jimmy—sorry, James—talks in his sleep.

Then you must be loving Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

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like *you wanted *them to on Smallville

*Trevor Noah looks uncomfortably bemused*

I… wha… cannibal… mermaids… Animal… Planet… huh… ?