One of the best things about a Jason Mantzoukas episode is how he and Scott are able to mock each other without it seeming mean. PFT has that same ability to call out a really dumb choice in a way that makes it fun.

Anybody else go off on a "Little Shop" binge yesterday after Erik mentioned it in his "Hear This," and then wake up to this? I'm not a big musical fan, but I probably would be if more of them were like Little Shop of Horrors.

I love when they start singing on CBB, because they always take it further than your initial instinct says they should, and it always pays off.

"Meek Shall Inherit" is pretty close, though, even though they cut it from the movie.

I've always thought of …Different Destinations as the show's real farewell to Zhaan. It's not like you couldn't do this story with her still alive, but something about how everyone's flailing around to do the right thing and getting it so tragically wrong speaks to the loss of their spiritual center. This is the kind…

D'oh, don't know how I spaced that. Thanks for pointing it out, we're fixing it now.

Caveman Crichton good! Lizard-Scorpius-Crichton bad.

The arc of her friendship with Chiana is really, really nice. In the aftermath of Suns and Lovers, it gives Chiana a push toward maturity by having there be someone even brattier than her to be annoyed by.

I love that final goodbye of Zhaan's, especially describing Chricton as "innocent." On the one hand, it's an absolution for whatever part he played in her death. But more than that, it's the aspect of himself that's been most tainted by his time in the Uncharted Territories. It's a reminder to him that his gentleness,…

Yeah, they do use her in the "science-y" plot role. But plot in Farscape is… Well, you know.

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The Apatow comment is interesting, because I feel like the only parallel in a modern comedy is the battle scene in Anchorman. It still exists within the tone of the movie (news anchoring is serious, macho business), but at the very fringes. And it ramps up so abruptly and quickly that it completely throws off the…

The moment this show really landed for me was when they let Bob's amused side peek out of the grump cloud he starts out as. H. Jon Benjamin does "slightly surprised to be as delighted as I am" so amazingly well that it makes me laugh every time.

Ice-T puts me in this weird headspace, because I have such great affection for the Paul F. Tompkins version of him, that I don't think T-Prime has actually earned. So I see "Ice-T" and think, "Oh, I like him! Wait…"

What is the point of having a character like Superman and putting him in the 'real world'? Dude's a flying man who shoots lasers out of his eyes and is perfectly good. Have him do something interesting in the crazy fake world. If I want 'the real world,' I will enjoy some non-flying-laser-man things.

Which only leaves us to debate why they had to take such a great character and make THAT movie with him. 

Call Me Carlos, I assume you're referring to Nolan's Batman trilogy? Those movies have some strong points, especially the second, but it's not the script.

The grades are justified by not mattering, at all, ever.

I'm a fan of Hobo Springsteen.

My CD collection's spine is made of stuff I stole from my parents. A few years ago, I popped Bat Out of Hell into the car stereo to see if I'd like it.