yeah, robots of death is one of my favorites.  the robot voices are fantastic, the entire look of the story is really well done, and it has a great agatha christie vibe.

the thing about john nathan-turner is that each thing he tried made the show worse.  from the doctors he chose to the casting of the companions to the music to the look of the show— each year was worse than the last.  sure, the effects and costumes were bad— they were always bad.  but before him, the *sensibilities*…

there were three arrested development "references" in this episode: bobby newport talked about "good" magicians, the low, scary voice in ben's political ad, and leslie saying "oh, come on!" when the bus with bobby newport's  face on the side pulls up.

but i always love the reaction shots of his exasperation at these slights— it never fails to get a laugh out of me.  and it never seems to get him down, he just keeps on cheerily plugging away.

it's much better than a brad pittfall.

it took over videogames for a while there, too.

yeah, that one stood out for me— when the camera panned down to reveal his swollen, discolored hand, i lost it.  and i love how he listed that ailment last.

"drink" makes him sound sophisticated.  i think people usually said they'd like to "have a beer" with him.  but yeah, i agree in that i don't get that sentiment— bush always seemed, even in the early days, like a stupid, self-satisfied asshole.

america is filled with high-school graduates who never leave their hometowns and work as receptionists, or equivalent jobs, and marry kinda dumb, but funny, good natured and likable guys for love.  do you think so lowly of them, too?  if so, then you're kind of an asshole.

i usually have a problem with kid versions of sitcom characters— i especially never cared for the ones on arrested development.  but young leslie was perfect, and really looked like a young leslie.

she's like the new millenium's later with bob costas!

i told them, "don't cancel law and order…" and did they listen?

if any fake sequel thread ever needed an "electric boogaloo" joke, i'd say it's this one.

sounds like he may have been created by gary larson.

i know he didn't have anything to do with M:I::G:P:, but j.j. abrams is a big fan— in addition to felicity, it happens twice in lost (although it wasn't a bus with michael, it's close enough).  i don't remember if it ever happened in alias, but if it didn't, it should have.

well, i was trying to not write the (mis)pronunciation, but i guess "ho" has become a legitimate variation of the word "whore" over the last 30-40 years.

she's sooo good-lookin'.

i remember the first time i saw the shockingly-gets-hit-by-a-bus in a tv show or movie was in felicity.  i've seen it in a million things since.

awww, that's so sweet!  i guess he'll stop using whore when she turns 13.

huh, i expected more of a skewering.  because it truly is an awful, awful show, with the most lazy, obvious, pedestrian jokes, the most desperate, pandering interviews this side of mario lopez, and a wax figure host that's been coasting on autopilot for two decades now.