This is all from memory, so I'm paraphrasing. They're watching Peg in the alternate timeline cook up a delicious meal:

Al: "She told me she was allergic to fire!"

Sam: "You mean after I died women started lying to get what they want?"

Always great to hear Conroy slip on the cowl. Sadly, that's no longer a guarantee of quality. The Killing Joke was flat-out terrible (and not just because of the ridiculous Batgirl prologue).

That sounds like the most likely explanation.

Since we're now clear of the season, I have one question. If Lenny was the Shadow King's creation to play on David's fears of schizophrenia or multiple personality disorder, who was the poor young lady that Syd fused with the wall at Clockworks? Did they ever finally explain that?

That's been the problem with SNL character movies since day one. SNL skits have to make something instantly recognizable and funny, because they don't have more than a few minutes to set up the skit premise. But in a movie, they have to stretch what's funny in five minutes into an hour and a half. Forte's skill…

One of the best things SCTV captured was the fact that local TV personalities were jacks of all trades, appearing on multiple shows in different guises. You never knew where Ray Rayner was going to pop up.

As I recall, that was Bozo's Grand Prize Game. KFC was a Sunday dinner tradition in a lot of homes, and we used to save the greasy buckets to make our own version.

There's another character that comes to a more insidious, but equally logical, conclusion. At least in the movie's terms. I would have liked to have seen that explored more.

Or, frankly,Groundhog Day.

Indeed.

I originally typed minors. I caught the error and edited it, but nerdrrage responded before I did.

Definitely a product of its time and by modern sensibilities, more than a little creepy. But not a drug-and-kidnap situation, which is how the description made it sound.

"who even drugged and trafficked women at one point"

(Nerd hat on)

Technically, I guess. But this description is misleading. The women had hired Mudd to help them find mates, and the drugs they took made them more attractive to men. They didn't do anything against their will and the drugs never impaired their…

Speak for yourself.

My models were all AMC.

ETA: That should have been AMT. Way to blow the joke, Matt!

It, but only because that novel is stronger leasing up to the ending. If It's ending is #1, The Stand is probably 1a.

Yeah, that was bittersweet. I suppose I should have said "climax," but, uh, you know why I didn't.

The Stand is my second least-favorite King ending. The plague and walking man chapters are so, so good. The ending is so….not.

I'm actually talking about both endings, but I didn't want to spoil anything. There's the obvious issue with the kids, but I also hated the final reveal of what It is. King's "rip open the door moment." I've never felt angrier after reading a book.

The bulk of the book is some of the best stuff King has ever done. The ending is one of his worst. I actually look forward to an adaptation that scraps the ending.

There was an interesting line in tonight's episode and I'm sure it was intentional. When Crawford shoots down Pauline, she says something along the lines of "I'm not going to squander one of my last chances to give a first chance to a nobody."

But as you mention, one of her last roles was directed by Spielberg in one…