I didn't see Better Off Dead until 2010 or so and I was pretty depressed I'd never watched it before. It was way funnier than I'd expected and I was saddened to learn John Cusack hated it, since I thought he did a great job.

But Klugman is terrific! Klugman is dynamite! Klugman is…Klugman!

I marathoned all the James Bond movies right after I graduated high school, and man oh man did I not think Goldfinger was as good as everyone else did. I've noticed kind of a trend lately for people to peg either From Russia With Love or Thunderball as Connery's best Bond and either of those are far preferable.

That's exactly my problem, and I feel like The Sopranos had that too in a different vein (although I was too young to really be that aware of it, at least in its prime) as far as 'horrible main character serving as adolescent power fantasy'.

I can't BEGIN to tell you how many people I have seduced to my godless ways by using drugs and premarital sex. Even I'm starting to get disgusted by my sinning!

"Simpsons Reviewer" is pretty much the steadiest writing job one can hope for, nowadays.

I remember in my younger days when I cared more about stuff like that I campaigned hard on the internet for Doug Hutchison to play Rorschach in the Watchmen movie. I still support that choice.

I fell out of these reviews for a bit and I totally missed John Doe, which is the only Season 9 review I was looking forward to other than this one.

Was John Doe a Season 9 episode? I've always really liked that one, and since I actually remembered enjoying it I mentally transposed it to being Season 8.

That sounds AWESOME! They should have just…left it in.

THANK YOU. I used to remember really liking Alien 3 until it turns out I'd seen Alien Resurrection as a kid and thought it was 3. And THEN it turns out 3 sucked!

Interesting, absolutely. I like the primarily comedic cast, but it is starting to look like an Alien Resurrection "long running action series gets fourth installment with a weirdly comical bent" situation.

Oh god, wait, is Linguo not an acceptable reference to make? I'm a bad Simpsons fan!

I frequently find myself having that same issue. I've never been conscious of a world where The Simpsons isn't actively producing new episodes. I fear for what may happen when that finally stops. Do I want it to keep going just to provide existential comfort?

Not to take anything away from our boy Jason here, but I feel that way about a lot of Bob Mould's stuff. Every time I listen to a Sugar album I notice something else, and it's good to see other people taking a similar approach.

That's my thinking. This dude is in Bob Mould's backing band and fills in live when Superchunk is on tour? He has to know what he's doing.

Are you big-leaguin' me, bro?

Not to disregard anyone else's contributions (as X-Files really was a team effort all around, moreso than many shows) but my vote is Kim Manners just because he's the only director's name I could immediately recall upon reading this post.

I was aware of La Costra Nostroid, but never read it. Shamefully, I never actually read any of the Scud side-story comics (Drywall had a solo series IIRC, and didn't Oswald have a thing briefly) except for Tales from the Vending Machine. I have Tales to thank for making me aware of Jim Mahfood, and I was aware enough…

This episode (and perhaps the following one more so) is one of the earliest memories I have of The Simpsons. If I didn't watch this episode first-run I caught it not long after, and in a weird way seeing a clipshow provided some context for little 8-10 year old me as far as figuring out what The Simpsons was.