Six rows of stars, alternating nine and eight. Piece of cake.

AKA the Funky Spiderman. Or the Funky Spi erman.

I love that Wanda is missing from this episode's opening sequence. I mean, I'm sorry that she's not in the show any more, because Lisa Kudrow is killing it, and I hope she comes back for season 3. But it's just one of those myriad little details.

No, nobody else noticed that. Good job!

Best visual joke in the episode: at the very end, a prehistoric rat-thing runs into the time bubble and back out again and you're thinking, "Uh-oh, that's going to fuck up time," because you've read "A Sound of Thunder". or seen that Simpsons episode. And then it ends up in the ocean.

As originally written, when he was born the obstetrician described him as looking like a leaf-nosed bat, and the other children at the orphanage teach him to give his name as "C*nt Face", so I think it's safe to say he was not attractive. Maybe after the surgery he cleaned up nice: it's been a while since I read the…

That's the exact plot of "Before I Go To Sleep" with the genders reversed. Like, literally the exact plot.

"Luck of the Fryrish" and the dog thing do nothing for me, but I well up at the end of "The Sting" every goddamned time, with Fry desperately trying to wake Leela up and Leela just as desperately trying to hang on to some sort of reality as it keeps eluding her and she can't understand why. It's amazingly good voice…

Well, that's just Huxley's Brave New World, isn't it? Humans destined for the lower classes given injections to stunt their growth and intelligence?

Replace "think Greek" with "they wreak".

GodDAMMIT I didn't even notice that, or more accurately I did sort of notice it but didn't give it another thought.

Is there an app that shows you how to do the same thing with Post-Its? Because that would be REALLY useful.

As evidenced in "Spy", his looks aren't fading. His hairline is receding, but that's not the same thing. He's doing a Pierce Brosnan, aging into someone distinguished and sexy.

I was surprised and impressed that among all the anachronisms and chaos, they got one little-known fact right: in Victorian times, mothers would wear black drapery or otherwise disguise themselves (sometimes as furniture!) to hold their babies for photography (http://ridiculouslyinterest….

That piece is so fucking gorgeous. I bought the Pino Donaggio Brian de Palma soundtrack album for two tracks, that and the "Dressed to Kill" shower music.

De Palma wanted to cast porn actress Annette Haven in the role of Holly Body, but ended up giving it to Melanie Griffith, which means that Melanie Griffith in the 1980s was a more convincing porn star than an actual porn star was.

No, the emotions inside the cat's brain at the very very end were the funniest part of the movie. That is SO cat.

I couldn't see how Lito's skills could come in handy until he proved himself to be an extremely accomplished liar/actor who saved the day on at least two occasions. So surely Riley can't just be a placeholder or a plot device: she has to have SOMETHING. I just can't imagine what it is.

I first saw it at a midnight screening to a packed house that was completely into it: when Joe E. Brown delivered the capper at the end, the audience went berserk. It was probably the most fun I've ever had at the movies, everything you'd want a moviegoing experience to be.

For what it's worth, Pauline Kael adored "Club Paradise". ADORED it. Hers might have been the only positive review of the movie.