It sounds like you haven't read the books, in which case you're doing a lot of groundless speculating. Do yourself a favor and give the first book a try. You'll be surprised how inventive, fast-paced and action-filled it is for a book written so long ago.

It sounds like you haven't read the books, in which case you're doing a lot of groundless speculating. Do yourself a favor and give the first book a try. You'll be surprised how inventive, fast-paced and action-filled it is for a book written so long ago.

I'm more than use to disagreeing with your grade, and I'm fine with that, but it's a little troubling that this episode is only a half grade away from the most shameless, unfunny Simpsons episode ever, which happened to precede it and also happened to be reviewed by you.

I'm more than use to disagreeing with your grade, and I'm fine with that, but it's a little troubling that this episode is only a half grade away from the most shameless, unfunny Simpsons episode ever, which happened to precede it and also happened to be reviewed by you.

Yeah, I was put off by how the episode implied American factory workers and engineers are all incompetent idiots. It was definitely more offensive than funny. It's one thing to have the common comedic gag of something made in America falling apart, but it's quite another to a man speaking for all American factory…

Marc Maron, are macaroons madams? No. Or a camera? No ram, cram.

I dunno, cloning Pacman worked pretty well for Mouse Trap on Atari. The AI was pathetic, but you got to change walls in the maze and use your equivalent of the super pellet (dog bone?) at the time of your choosing.

Garrett's in the A.V. Club comments section!

How does one get your job, Heisler? You know, the one where you lazily take a Kotaku article and act indignant at things people didn't actually say anywhere.

Right, because as Starship Troopers showed us, Verhoeven makes his adaptations as faithful as possible to the source material. Not saying it wouldn't be awesome, just saying it would be nothing like the novel.

I guess these Community Panel PaleyFests are only newswire-worthy when Todd VanDerWerff isn't moderating them. Offense taken!

Damn double negatives! You're right of course.

Is that true? IMDB confirms this but I won't be satisfied until I've spent way too much time watching Dinosaurs clips on Youtube.

I'm not too worried because I don't think it will necessarily be a re-pairing. There wasn't really any romantic build up to the sex and them already being partners before makes it less significant if anything. At most I see it possibly leading to an extended but short-lived friends-with-benefits sort of thing.

The one in Suburgatory was funnier, though.

Although I liked the episode and thought it was funny, I agree with you on the poor non-resolution of Tessa's storyline.

I really am shocked that the minority opinion here is not that "The Beach" is the worst episode of the series. This one really made me question my love of the show.

Joel McHale is the obvious suggestion. I believe Dan Harmon had tried to get Bill Murray to guest star as Jeff Winger's dad, but Murray is infamously hard to contact.

Does this excellent episode mean we should stop blaming Mike Scully for ruining The Simpsons?

Mario Kart has really ruined other racing games for me. Who cares about slip streaming or buying new spark plugs? I want to throw turtle shells at that guy.