Now, let's not get carried away. Kristen Schaal is an excellent actress and an amazing comic talent, but January Jones is approximately eight million times sexier.

The thing is, though, two people—or three—just isn't enough to repropagate the species. Inbreeding will do them in right quick.

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I liked "The Devil in the White City", I really did, but the difference between the two sections was certainly jarring. Here's a chapter where a guy planning a fair invents the Ferris Wheel. Then there's a chapter where a depraved serial killer murders his girlfriend. Then there's a chapter where the fair planner,…

Well, synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics aren't sports.

Do people not have DVRs? Who cares when a show airs?

One of my favorite jokes was when Cotton met Kahn and immediately nailed where he was from, to everyone's shock. "You're Laotian, aren't you Mr. Kahn?"

Yeah, Peggy's backstory got kind of messy in later seasons.

Oh sure, she was right, that was a dumb move on the doctor's part. But it seemed like she has some issues about interacting with doctors and it all came out.

"How many of you have got wolves in your district? None. Not one."

"Leslie Jones…unabashedly sexy"

There is a really great book called "Revolution 1989" that I cannot recommend strongly enough. It has its biases—the first line is "This is a story with a happy ending"—but it is really great at breaking down why the Communist bloc came apart.

Yes, towards the end he seemed to get the hang of things better, which is too bad, because his career was petering out. I liked "The Milky Way".

Does it have a plot?

That said, Lana Turner was so goddamn sexy that I almost didn't care. Heck of an entrance in that movie, with the camera panning up.

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I watched the original 1950s "Thing from Another World" the other day. Handicapped by the man-in-rubber-suit effect, but surprisingly effective.

That was aboard the Red October, yes? I was never on an American boomer, much less a Russian boomer, but they are significantly larger.

Haven't seen that one. I've seen "Disraeli", "The Broadway Melody", "Marianne"—I remember trying to watch Mary Pickford in "Coquette" once and I gave up ten minutes in. I also gave up on Harold Lloyd's 1929 talking debut in "Welcome Danger". Love me some Harold but that humor just did not translate to dialogue.

Not that it matters, but I spent four years serving aboard a fast-attack submarine. No other film has ever gotten the look of a submarine better than that one did. The control room looked right, the uniforms looked right, it was impressive.