Heather Locklear was a regular on "Melrose Place" for years, but was listed as a Special Guest Star in every episode.

Well Mary Steenburgen seems to be teetering on the brink of madness, caressing a Gordon dummy and all.

Yup. Malibu would be super as far as sun for solar panels but they're going to have real problems growing food and the fresh water is going to run out.

I don't know if that's true. First, three men and three women—as Mary Steenburgen has said, "that ship has sailed"—is not THAT bad a pool, especially if all three women can manage to get pregnant by at least two of the men. Second, there are probably other isolated bits of humanity out there somewhere that the…

Not going to call Phil II "the best". He did, let's remember, leave Phil I in the desert to die.

This is the second season.

I realized while watching this episode that most of the gang are bad people and almost all of them are stupid. Phil II—well ok he made good points, but he once left Phil out in the desert to die. Melissa is just bitchy and mean. Todd's a nice guy but no smarter than Phil. Erica and Mary Steenburgen are lazy and…

"That conference room he described? It doesn't even exist!"

Well, TNR's political stances, which were in fact quite awful during that terrible terrible time, aren't really germane to the story.

I think this is a really great movie up until the last minute. That ending, with the smiles and the applause for Lane, is so bizarrely triumphant. OK, they've finally. managed to uncover a huge fraud at their magazine—except that they didn't even do that, Penenberg at Forbes did. They've been exposed as fools. It…

It just sounds bad. A racist slang term, like any slang term, might be expected to be punchy and effective. It just doesn't sound like anything anyone might say.

But why is it stupid? Why wouldn't American wizards have a Congress?

This is a long-standing plot device.

Yep. "Normal"="most common", and jargon words are to be avoided.

It doesn't marginalize anyone. It is an accurate descriptor, and it is non-jargon. We are normal. It's what the word means.

You're quite the ass, aren't you? Especially when your hypothesis is rather stupid. I imagine American children are just as aware as British children of what "philosopher's stone" means—hardly at all, that is—and the actual reason is that Scholastic is staffed by morons who thought the title change would make the…

Exactly. I guess there are the purebloods like the Malfoys and the Weasleys, and then you have people like Hermione or Lily Potter that develop magic while growing up in non-magical families. Even if the purebloods do keep themselves and live in, I dunno, their little parallel universe, they'd still be encountering…

…I think I would, actually.

You can call me a troll if you like, but that does not answer the question I posed. Why does "not transsexual" require a jargon word?

Now credits are spoilers. Good Lord. You people.