Another good exploration of the Gordian knot of NOLF rights:

Wait, the Capri was a Mercury in the US? In Britain, it was a Ford. Is there some corporate-structure nonsense at play here that I know nothing about?

Clarkson wasn’t fired for fighting “with” a producer, he was fired for physically attacking them. 

Also, Flintoff is a very tall man, which makes rolling a roofless car designed decades ago that much more dangerous.

Better than a Kool-Aid wedding.

Peddling your ass outside a McDonald’s is a tragic situation that no teenager should have to endure.

He merges the “Exorcist” and his own “Pineapple Express” universe with “Exorcist: Sativa”.

So she’s the one who saved Whedon a ton of money by making the Alliance armour out of spare “Starship Troopers” gear? And more importantly, gave River’s dresses juuuust the right amount of floatiness to subtly suggest crazy?

Ten years ago, here in London, I was hit by a cyclist while crossing a road (mostly, but not wholly his fault, says I). Witnesses, describing my fall to the police officer, used the word “somersaulted”. I still have the head scars from it; the nurse in the hospital said my skull was visible while she was stapling my…

Anyone who thinks this was the worst episode has forgotten the name Kevin Finnerty.

And the inspiration for one of TV’s most underrated weird alien children - Dick Butkus from The Neighbors, son of Larry Bird and Jackie Joyner-Kersee:

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I watched the US version's season 1, and it dragged it's heels so very much. One thing about our version, it wasn't afraid to burn through plot.

In your pants, apparently.

They also managed to make a series about vampires without ever (a) using the word “Vampire”, or (b) making the absence of the word super-distracting.

Not only was it cut to ribbons, it had originally been scheduled to run at 9pm, to mesh with the corresponding BtVS episode on BBC2 at 8pm. After a couple of weeks, they stopped for a week while they decided what to do about the complaints (an even split of complaints about the cuts, and about the gore - Gawd bless…

Buffy also gets points - or Mr Pointys - for giving rise to the whole “X as subtext for adolescence, but the supertext is also adolescence” genre. Without it, there would be no Veronica Mars, no Gossip Girl, no Wednesday, to name but three.

I only saw the short version, and even that was fantastic. By the end of it, I felt like I could have waged a land war in medieval China.

Also, nothing goes, y’know, in anybody, and I don't think any of the men go full-mast, so it’s softcore at most.

Now I’ve seen that her name is an anagram of “Giant Root”, I really want her to show up as Queen of the Groots.