The fact that Byerly’s was possessive but Lunds wasn’t was always my bugbear. I could deal with two unnecessary ‘s additions, but I haaaated that they were different. They recently rebranded to all be “Lunds & Byerlys,” presumably just for my benefit.

Actual, legitimate spoilers for Serenity:

Is there something that differentiates a narrative podcast from a radio play/audio drama? Because if not, it feels weird to be talking about narrative podcasts like they’re some fledgling format instead of being, y’know, only a little younger than the medium of radio.

Trademarks aren’t copyrights—they basically just mean that nobody else can use a phrase or image or whatever for marketing purposes. Disney could probably prove pretty handily that most Americans associate “hakuna matata” with The Lion King first and foremost, and that’s enough for a trademark. Like, remember when the…

Just the dip?

Or, as “the second book in a series of books” is more commonly called, “a sequel.”

No, the G is for Greg. Greg Zod.

You’re probably right, and this thing’ll do Alice in Wonderland business.

Eh, neither A Wrinkle in Time nor Tomorrowland really made money—both made their official production budgets back, but not much more. Disney likes to keep the occasional spot on its schedule for a CGI-heavy non-remake like this one, and those are generally not moneymakers.

I think they could try? Trademarks can be about who’s ballsy enough to claim something first, and who has the time and money to defend their trademark. For instance, the Candy Crush people were for sure not the first ones to use “saga” in a game title. But they registered it, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

No, trademarks are the ones that you have to defend or lose. The Marijuanaville thing was a trademark lawsuit, not a copyright one.

Nope, that’s how trademarks work. Copyright is different! So he’s an asshole coming and going.

Oh, gross. No. Fuck this.

The best possible NPR pledge-drive reward would be access to a secret frequency where we don’t have to listen to any fucking pledge drives.

This sounds like a disaster.

Oh, for fuck’s sake. At least The Terror, the previous winner of the “adaptation turned anthology show with no ongoing connection to the source material” sweepstakes, has a generic-enough title that it kind of works for an anthology.

In one of the first episodes of Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated, the mystery machine breaks down in a spooky abandoned town, and everybody immediately whips out their phones and calls their parents. Except that one of the major themes of the show is that adults are useless at best and actively malicious at worst…

If they weren’t jarringly more expensive than Oreos, I would just eat Famous Wafers and not even bother with the stuf.

A friend of mine once showed up to a Halloween party in a Vikings jersey and tried to claim that he was in costume as a Vikings fan. The host made him wear a bag over his head to better reflect how he should feel about his choice of costume/sports fandom. Since then, I interpret all bag costumes as “ashamed of…

Have a sad star. RIP Booze Mart. :(