I love how easily Will is duped and manipulated in those Hamibal skits.

I agree. For all his destructive stupidity and selfishness, there's something honest about Trump - even when he's lying, he comes across as having convinced himself those lies are the truth. Huckabee is a creep with a tattered Mr Rogers suit for a manner.

I hope this isn't going to become a 'George Miller is problematic' meme.

I agree. We shouldn't harangue writers and directors for more appearances of beloved characters. It's better for popular characters - particularly badass characters - to be used sparingly. Besides, in 20 years, when Disney buys Mad Max, we'll get all the Furiosa prequels and spin-offs we can handle.

"let's not be intentionally obtuse" - imagine how little would be said on the internet if this was a widely held principle.

The sole reason I clicked on this story was to see if someone had made this reference. When I found out that they had, and that it was the first comment… (swoons)

If you continue with this rudeness, Denmark my works: you'll come to a bad end.

I figured his mum was homophobic; she piled a lot of expectations on him; she gave up a lot for him when she was raising him and, crucially, told him that's how she felt. He was a decent guy, so being raised like that would have left him hating that part of himself.

"Thank God I wore my bulletproof vest and hairy, bulletproof skullcap."

I agree completely - the stick his line at the end of last week's episode got is a prime example of this.

I think the reception of these episodes reflects culture's (increasingly?) Homer-esque tendency to either love or completely despise something, with no shades in between.

I think the people who think seasons 8-10 are bad, or even that dramatic a slide in quality, need to get their heads checked. They're not as transcendentally brilliant as 3-7, sure. But they're still extraordinarily good, and the rate and quality of jokes is consistent with the older series.

I don't like it at the end, but I love it's use in the episode. It's a one-note joke, but it's so appropriate to Homer's knee-jerk inconsiderateness. If you aren't worried about people's feelings, I imagine cutting members from a team would be 'one of the easiest parts of any coach's job'.

That's at the Knowledgeum in the one where Marge makes Bart hang out with Ralph.

There's nothing wrong with feeling pity for Dolarhyde - he's an incredibly damaged and traumatised person who needs to be stopped, not a monster like Hannibal. One can - I would argue, should - feel pity for insane violent individuals without tolerating their actions.

Even if Rowling consciously (as a reference to film she liked) or unconsciously (she saw the film, then years later accidentally used a name from it) took 'Harry Potter' from Troll, it shouldn't be considered plagiarism because a name made of a relatively common English forename-surname combination isn't anything…

When the 'there's a character called Harry Potter in an old, cheap horror film called Troll 2' stuff was first reported I was amazed at how many people believed that two characters being named the same actually constituted plagiarism and that Rowling had been caught out ripping the director/writer off, ignoring that…

I think the public at large really liked TDKR, but not as much as they loved TDK. They now remember the trilogy fondly. A very vocal contingent of people on the internet still can't shut up about how much they hated it 3 years later.

The 'someone explains the joke in disbelief' trope is way overused a lot these days (particularly in The Daily Show and Family Guy), but somehow Zoolander - I'm thinking specifically of the 'Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigre? They're the same look for Christ's sake!" and the 'Are you serious? I literally just explained…

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