Oh. Wow. Thank you. I never put together that the small black tower we saw Ford walking towards was the STEEPLE of the former (big, white) church, now apparently buried deep underground and presumably burned. Act of God, or act of "God" (i.e. Ford-directed park renovation)? Based on what Ford was talking about as he…

Something I found super interesting when rewatching all of the episodes today is that in "Stray" (at least I think it was in "Stray"), when the two guests approach the MiB at the campfire, the gushing fanboy actually says "… You saved my sister's (mumble mumble)…" The MiB says, over whatever is being mumbled, "Not one…

It's true that many of the AV Club reviews go up very quickly after the episode airs. Not these.

Emily doesn't always watch very carefully. I'm surprised, because I'm not reviewing it — and I'm also usually doing email or Twitter or something else at the same time — but even I can manage to get the correct gist of scenes (like who was being hobbled a few weeks ago) and dialogue (SLAY their asses?? massage??).

I thought it was maybe to keep them from shrinking as they dry out.

I kept the captioning on last night — Bates' Gaelic pronunciations were atrocious, and I wanted to catch what she was saying — so I'm quite sure Monet said "sue their asses" (not "slay their asses"). Agnes, genuinely sorry for what she'd done to Alissa, the PA, I thought remarked that she'd always made sure she had a…

Wow, I imagined something very different. I assumed Ford had a keyphrase coded into the waiter which caused him to pause, and that his pausing triggered the field workers and other staff to pause (via some kind of wireless connection). And similarly, that another keyphrase started the waiter back up.

You're probably right that Disney has someone watching that page, but to be completely fair, the article does list more than just deaths, so "Incidents" is perfectly reasonable for its title.

Hopkins is obviously no anti-dentite.

Giving you ideas for Halloween, maybe? ;-)

"…Why can't they dance like we did? What's wrong with Sammy Kaye?"

Hee! Okay, Spydrvyn, here's a short bit of Paul Lynde to give you a little of his 'flavor'. He was most famous as the center square of Hollywood Squares, but he was also fantastic as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Either that was asked ironically, or I am old. :-p

He didn't actually help them. He lead them off the grounds only so that if/when they died (he basically led them right to the Polks), they wouldn't be stuck haunting the same house with him. He hated other people, remember!

That's a good point: the guy who shoulder-checks Teddy on the street in the first episode — before we know that he's a host — does the same thing to William when he arrives. He probably shoulder-checks some guy every time that train arrives, whoever walks closest to him.

It's more than him having simply shot Jesse James: it's that Ford betrayed his own gang leader, and shot him in the back of the head, while he was unarmed, in his own family living room, with wife and children nearby in another room. The mantles of 'rat' and 'coward' hang very heavily over that name. I'm sure it…

That's not correct. The original story of Aladdin from The Thousand and One Nights is certainly in the public domain, but Disney's version of Aladdin — and this can be none other than Disney's Aladdin, what with the presence of a Princess Jasmine in the story! — is absolutely 100% protected by both copyright and…

When she first explained her backstory to Snow, including how "the kingdom was lost," I immediately thought, "No, the kingdom was *cancelled*." Because when she declined to say the name of her kingdom, I really thought ABC might be trying to make a sly reference to their own cancelled show, Galavant. Then I remembered…

Bwa-hahahaha! That's awesome. You are so right.

Yeah, I dunno. I think that if the show specifically subverts that trope — white person (stand-in for 'slave owner archetype') hobbling black person (stand-in for 'slave archetype') — how can you accuse them of that?