I almost always find Mantzoukas funny on HDTGM, even when he's screaming, because he has the wonderful June Diane Raphael to counterbalance him. He and Esposito just seemed to spur one another to greater and greater heights of loudness, and it was a very hard thing to endure. I've listened to every episode of that…

I gritted my teeth and made it through the whole episode, and it was pretty horrible: you were right to bail. Esposito is just not funny, and shouting nearly everything as loudly as she could manage didn't make her any funnier. This was easily the worst episode of HDTGM ever. I hope you enjoyed the albums.

In "Spy", at least, she's not loud, rude, and crude: she's a gifted, dedicated intelligence agent who's constantly overlooked because people assume she's just a fat nothing. Even when she's dressed and made up to be genuinely beautiful and confident-looking — the casino sequence and the nightclub scene — people still…

Dr. Tongue's Evil House of Pancakes! You'd swear the syrup was coming right out of the screen at you. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

That really is a shame, because in 3-D (I didn't get to see it in IMAX), it was an overwhelming experience: it haunted me so much that I had to go see it again a couple of days later. There are some movies that only work on a big screen and Gravity is one of them.

The podcast 99% Invisible did an episode on Munson: http://99percentinvisible.o…. Well worth a listen, as are pretty all the other episodes.

Yeah, but it was an exact steal from The Simpsons. "Now you are the one who is it."

Yeah, and you really need to Google her performance of "A Call from the Vatican" from her Broadway turn in "Nine" to see why.

Jessica Jones didn't fall apart as much as it suffocated in its own bloat. It would have made a tight six episodes, maybe eight: but thirteen episodes meant an awful lot of padding.

I don't love Naqoyqatsi — it's certainly the least of the three movies — but the Religion section is hypnotic: the images may be a little too on-the-nose, conflating capitalism, celebrity, sports, politics, and jingoism, but the music ties it all together.

The soundtrack album for The Thin Blue Line is so great because the music is intercut with dialogue, so it's like listening to an abridged version of the film. (Some people hate that, which is why there is a dialogue-free The Music of The Thin Blue Line album.) And the radiantly beautiful End Credits track ends with a…

Mange Tout by Blancmange. If you like those other things, I one hundred per cent guarantee that you will love this album.

I had no idea there were so many versions of the album. I must have had the first US release, because it had "Leipzig" on it but not "The Wreck of the Fairchild", which I'd never even heard of before now.

The mad scientist who says "Science!" and has a few other lines was Magnus Pyke, a well-known British TV presenter, and he hated the popularity of the song because people would come up to him in public and shout "SCIENCE!" at him.

Boston Pizza is not exactly a pizza chain, though, despite its name: they do sell pizza, but they're really a sports bar/restaurant with the kind of food that implies, nachos and pasta dishes and burgers and beer.

And in Nova Scotia.

I can take or leave Dolly Parton. But June Diane Raphael or GTFO.

Pearls on an ankle, honey!

That header picture isn't supposed to be an example of subtly removing human imperfection, is it? Because there's nothing subtle about that. She looks like Joely Richardson redone as a Real Doll.

If I had to listen to commercial radio in my car I would drive into the nearest tree at a hundred and twenty.