Interesting to note that the whole "briefly drowning = dying" thing is pretty much directly ripped from Buffy.  And it was kinda silly there, too.

For what it's worth, HIMYM used the name Barnabas years ago.  I actually wondered if it was a shout out.

I dunno, I thought the Frisky Dingo pilot was funny, but it gave almost no hint of what the show was gonna turn into, and left you with kind of a 'huh?' feeling.  I don't think Frisky Dingo got super hilarious until around the 3rd or 4th episode.

Since when has anything on E not been part of the Hollywood machine?

Not to get spoiley on an unrelated show, but I hope they can pull off something like The Shield where they basically made the audience hate themselves for liking the main character.

I've really never understood the hate for season 5.  Any season that gave us The Playbook is just fine in my mind.

I think a lot of the appeal of the song is in how it plods along, especially if you're listening to the album and not just the individual song.  It's a nice change of gears from the high energy of Smells Like Teen Spirit, and it leads nicely into Come As You Are, which is mellow but more rhythmic.  It's also a great…

Cyrill Figgis!

I think they called it a season when they got to the point where they had enough for a syndication run.  Forget what the magic number is for that.

Just googled it, and apparently yes, although it would have an extremely short range where it would still be lethal.

Does that mean you missed the rampage episode?  Because that was probably the best episode of TV all year.

Jeffrey Tambor has a recurring role as Len.

Not to try to bring up the concept of nerd cred or anything, but BBT is clearly the kind of show that's written by non-nerds about what they think nerds are.  From what I've watched of it (which is admittedly not much) there were very few references to things that are particularly obscure or nerdy.  I mean, Star Wars…

We were pretty early adopters on VCRs, and my parents really didn't care about ratings at all, so I had probably seen dozens of R rated movies at home before I ever saw one in the theater.  But I do remember that the first one I actually saw in the theater was Die Hard With A Vengeance when I was 14, which I thought…

"We didn't land on Sherwood Forest!  Sherwood Forest landed on us!"

God, people so rarely get it when I say that my favorite quote from that movie is "When?"  It's a pretty bleak line, when you get down to it.

That was the explanation Buffy used for how their magic store stayed in business.  And theirs was also unreasonably huge.

If you had an ensemble Emmy, actors with great individual performances would almost certainly get screwed over because people thought it was more of an ensemble show. That seems particularly likely in cases where one actor stands out above the rest of the ensemble.

About the same way Cordelia started becoming a research expert on Angel.

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I never understood why that scene bothers people.  Like you never see gay men who hang out with attractive women? Also, with the fact that they were probably actually slayers?