Vicious. I think you meant vicious.

Or "In the tradition of … " is also not a great sign.

"His name is Toblerone?"

Wow. HBO Video at its lowest point and Cannon Video at its highest.

"Tom, your line is, 'I was crying.' Commercial sign in five, four, three, two, one. Commercial sign now."

" … no college would ever put students at peril in room with a rat problem."

Give 'em hell, blank!

Oh hai Mark! So anyway, how's your sex life?

My dream - and I hope this doesn't sound too crazy - is to build a replica Blockbuster Video in the basement of a home I haven't built yet. I'll rent movies to myself, and charge myself late fees when I don't return them on time. Plus I'll only have the movie boxes on the shelf, with no copies of the titles that I…

*holds Gorbachev in headlock, wipes off birthmark*

Macy owns in this movie. He's not a cartoon movie cop, he comes off as a real person. His infuriated shout at a person he has no choice but to shoot ("27 YEARS!") felt honest; he was forced to do something to save himself, and it made him sick. He appreciated the weight of taking a life, even if it was someone who was…

Scalia passed, not Alito.

So much greatness in that movie. It's the kind of movie that could have been a cheap teen sex comedy - and even tries to trick you into thinking that it is with the opening credits - then reveals itself to be smart and witty and human.

Amen. Note that Leslie keeps washing her hands, Lady MacBeth-like, after she has a discussion with one party or another, as if she's trying to cleanse herself of the muck she's chosen to stir.

"Mr. Boogedy" was a pilot, iirc, that's why it wasn't feature-length. It was successful enough to get a full-length TV movie sequel, but not a series.

Disney has owned ABC since 1995, or since the summer before NYPD Blue's 3rd season. It was under their watch that the show was allowed to expand its vocabulary to one utterance of "bullshit" per episode, starting in season 10. (Yeah, yeah, big whoop … but nobody else was saying that curse word on a network series,…

ITA. No, it won't win - not sexy enough, the Academy hates Spielberg as much as they love him, and no nomination for Tom Hanks (WTF?) - but it deserves to be mentioned as one of the year's best.

But you can tell who had power to change things in the script - William Macy's cop is such a well-drawn character, Kim Basinger's science teacher-turned-endangered hostage is a surprisingly nuanced one, but Evans (the lead character) gets the worst of the dialogue, including one of the laziest last lines I've heard in…

It's a crime how The Middle goes unrecognized for the stone-classic sitcom it has become. It's got some of the best writing and acting on TV, drama or comedy.

At around the point the show began to feel like it should have been over - and perhaps taken out behind the barn and shot - I checked to see how much time was left.