I’m surprised Barsanti mentioned Santa Claus and not the other figure Kelly insisted was white: Jesus.

I was very interested in knowing how my Black Whovian friend felt about this episode (yeah, I know, I just did a “my black friend,” but in this context it’s relevant), and that was her big issue—the idea that 5800 years in the future, there would STILL be racists out there trying to kill people like her. It wasn’t…

The supermarket exterior (and likely interior) was definitely a Southern California Vons. 

Isn’t it “Udon Own Me,” like the Leslie Gore song? I don’t have the Tweet to reference, so I might be hearing it wrong.

Sometimes trailers borrow music from other movies. Remember when a whole bunch of trailers used music from Requiem for a Dream?

Rocky is such a powerful movie. I like the franchise, but things got pretty silly in the sequels (and Adrian is a horribly inconsistent character movie to movie). The original gives you that real sense of desperation. There are no villains other than, well, poverty. (And Paulie. He’s just plain awful.)

I read a recent novel where a middle-school-age character is obsessed with this movie, and she has painstakingly recorded the times of all Mr. Yunoichi scenes to skip over them, particularly when trying to convert others to her fandom.

That’s a lot of judgment to pass on something about which you are stunningly uniformed.

Considering what “witches” apparently did with their broomsticks, you are historically dead-on.

That moment when he contorts his face and winks—someone on Twitter posted the minstrelsy image that he was referencing, which makes that quarter of a second just chilling to watch.

So, what do we make of this Bogdan (besides being disappointed that he doesn’t sport epic eyebrows, of course)? When Adderholt comes for Sophia, he gives her a little shake of his head, telling her not to go. Does that confirm Stan’s suspicions?

One of the truths of human cognition is that we rarely take a close look at people’s faces. He sees his wife’s nurse as her role; I doubt he’s noticed more than “curly hair and glasses.” He’d possibly also think something like “mousy,” which definitely wouldn’t come to mind with the dark haired woman!

I’m always…

That was my thinking, too—that if Renee were meant to infiltrate the FBI, the KGB wouldn’t be so careless to send someone they knew would be too old. They know Stan can be tempted by someone younger (Nina), so they would have sent someone the appropriate age. Besides, it sounds like they were waiting for the second…

I’m here for the BaBy-8.

Thank you so much!

The new season of <em>Jeopardy!</em> begins tonight, and I was wondering whether Jay S. will be resuming his coverage in the comments of this feature. I ask because...I’m a contestant on tomorrow’s show! I also have a great story about something that happened during the taping of Wednesday’s episode. If this…