As Seth MacFarlane, of all people, once said at, of all places, a graduation ceremony speaking in, of all things, Glenn Quagmire’s voice: “If you’re gonna start a show about a buncha guys trapped on an island, make sure you know where you’re going with it.”

THE NUMBERS ARE BAD!!!!!

The great Trek over-saturation era was a real thing. Not just from an audience point of view, but the writers would come up with so much stuff that eventually they got to a point where they would write themselves into a corner all the time until the only tropes left were the dumb-as-fuck ones. To say that they were…

No, actually.

Signs You Know You’re Old: You see just the headline of this article and expect a Dabney Coleman interview.

What do the many posters promoting Christianity have to do with basic security?

“That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.”

“I, for one, do not think that the problem was that the band was ‘down.’ I think the problem may have been that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.”

“Can I raise a practical question at this point?”

That brings to mind what happened in Spinal Tap with the Stonehenge set...

I really want a “hidden, extra season” that gives us an update on everyone.

As a person who’s driven on Highway 5 a time or two, it tickles me that they even mentioned Anderson’s Pea Soup... but it really is one of the few landmarks along the way.

I thought for sure they’d appreciate a version of Ten Things I Hate About You set in Elizabethan England, but--nope!

I noticed this when playing the video game Perfect Dark Zero last year, which is from 2005 and set in 2020, but main character Joanna Dark’s pixie haircut with the blond streak SCREAMS 2005.

Emilia Clarke totally gets what he’s saying.

A hurricane...or a PTERONADONICANE?!

She dyes her hair, creates a fake ID complete with new “family”, gets a doctor’s degree, goes to work for the FBI, and ends up in the basement with this spooky guy investigating aliens and weekly monsters.

...what? We can’t tie this in to the Westphall Universe???

The spinoff will air 20 years from now, set in 2016. Philip and Elizabeth are managers of a Russian troll farm in St. Petersburg dedicated to subverting United States’ democratic institutions and geopolitical leadership. Henry is an admin at r/theredpill and Paige is a bubbly far-right blogger/vlogger/twitter…

I thought the workplace HR plot did a decent job of pointing out that you don’t need to be a monster or even have ill intent to make your co-workers uncomfortable. If oversimplying the issue to “hey, you don’t always come across like you think you do” is what it takes to get more people to understand the non-criminal…

Well, not always. Let’s keep in mind that HBO stands for “Home Box Office,” implying that you can see good movies at home rather than having to go out to the theater.