I’m surprised it hasn’t been done already. And setting it in the post-Judgment Day future is basically the only way to do it that won’t feel like it’s re-treading the first and second movies. 

It honestly . . . kind of does. If they don’t want to recast Kang, then they can just act as thought that’s all tied up (for folks who care - most won’t see Loki and won’t care) and move on to other stuff. 

They didn’t do themselves any favors by ending the season way they did. It means the story has to start up right after it, rather than setting it another year or three later and just have the actors all portray college-age kids instead of the other.

My favorite story about the A380 is that Airbus had secret meetings in the 1990s with Boeing about cooperating on a giant jet. Boeing took a look at their proposal and told them it was a bad idea, and refused to do it. They built it anyways, and it was indeed a bad idea - an overinvestment on a fuel-hog, four engine…

Given that they’re clever, omnivorous birds that can basically live everywhere except extremely cold tundra, I’m surprised they aren’t literally everywhere in the US - like, you can still go to a public park in the US and not see or hear a couple crows.

We really need just a blanket ban on civil forfeiture like this. If you leave loopholes in this, the police will wiggle through them - aided and abetted by local officials who use this and fines to keep taxes low when it comes to paying for police.

It’s wild that South Park seems to have defeated it for the Hearts of the Zoomers. Maybe it’s easier to excerpt for TikTok. 

I think in both cases it was an attempt to try some new jokes with the characters, as the writers had been relying too hard on doing “ha ha, he’s lonely and pathetic!” gags with both of them.

It’s more odd to me that it happened in the last ten years at some point. Like I said, the “early 20s” Simpsons still felt apiece with the much older episodes, even if the jokes and subject matter (and episode visual quality) had changed. The “early 30s” Simpsons episodes don’t.

WOW. Now I really got to see this.

That was my reaction as well. Apparently Comic Book Guy got married in Season 25, to a normal-ish character (it really would have been funnier if they’d had him get married to Agnes Skinner).

Not really surprising they phased out the strangling thing. They were making jokes about it being a horrific act of child abuse all the way back in Season 11 in the “Behind the Laughter” episode.

I haven’t watched it yet, but is it grosser that the ToH segment where Homer eats himself? I remember thinking that one was just disgusting without being funny.

It’s one of the furthest north “tropical” islands there is. A tropical rainforest climate more than 600 miles north of the Tropic of Cancer - almost the same north-south distance as San Francisco to Seattle.

You’d think they’d have tighter security for that sort of thing, given that cruise ships usually do carry a bunch of luxury goods (like a shit-ton of jewelry, which cruise passengers apparently buy in such quantities that every cruise ship port is larded up with jewelry stores in addition to the one aboard the ship).

That seems right, although I’m trying to figure out how you would end the first one with the House of Beorn without it feeling kind of over-drawn or too abrupt.

I like watching good movies, and I want movies based off of Tolkien’s work to be good.

It’s a good time for gains. The Las Vegas Industry came back very strong in 2021 and 2022, with record revenue even though the actual number of visitors is still down compared to 2019 (it helps to have a strong base of gambling addicts as customers). 

The book also had a perfect splitting point for a movie adaptation. The parts of the book before and after it in the book very much felt like a “Part I” and “Part II” in the original book story. 

Same for the Godfather II. I remember being a bit daunted when I saw how long it was (same for the longer version of The Godfather), but it does not feel dragged out or like a slog.