the leads may not be Little People, but blink and you miss it later...

This episode definitely couldn’t find its focus, and splitting its attention across 400 different threads while Morris kept nattering was annoying. Of the random interesting folks that UNIT has brought into things, Morris was not one of their best. Wesley Crusher but more annoying and less useful. In an episode…

Mark Russell is seriously great. I became a fan of his with God Is Disappointed In You and his Flintstones comic is shockingly deep and heart-wrenching.

Sounds like white dudes crushed it!

Yeah...was coming here to say the same thing.  Distinctly remember seeing a clip of her speaking and the shocked reaction a few weeks ago.

Who? 

They usually make these announcements right before there’s very public filming that’s difficult for them to hide, which would have shown up in the tabloids anyways. At least this way they get out ahead of the information and discourage the paps from disrupting filming to snap exclusive photos of the new companion.

Also…

I say this every time, but I really hope she’s not another 21st century English girl. Let her be from another planet, or the future, or the past...anything but another 21st century English girl. 

The Rock has carny running through his blood, the feud with Diesel could have been complete or partial kayfabe, we’ll never really know.

A substantially worse Taxi Driver -AND- King of Comedy. Given the viewing habits of most of the current younger audience, it probably doesn’t matter. They haven’t seen either of the originals. When my kids (both Gen Z age) saw Avatar for the first time, they didn’t respond negatively to the similarities to Ferngully,…

I’ll just remind everyone, because a lot of people certainly seem like they’re actively trying to ignore it, that Todd Phillips was on the side of the executives during the strikes and said everyone deserved to go broke from it.

The first movie was just a worse Taxi Driver, but maybe getting weird and wacky will give this one more of an identity. 

On Stranger Ties is a movie about pirate apparel, while the one you’re thinking of is On Stranger Tides (Disney bought the rights from Tim Powers and neglected to use the contents of the book, which may account for the forgettable nature of the film.)

Jesus christ these people are still hung up on Sarkeesian? Is it still 2015 for them or something?

“What’s going to happen if you do something brave?”

The cover by The Cardigans and Tom Jones added much more to the song, IMO.  It’s very much of its time in 1999, but I think it holds up.

[Craig Kilborn stares at phone.]

really, can you name a great Rock sketch?

“You Give Love a Bad Name” is fine, but come on, the right song is right there:

More teens get breast implants than trans top surgery by a significant margin, but I’m sure Dax and the rest of his ilk aren’t concerned about that fact.