Lies! Nobody watched Anonymous!

It's not as good as Bovine University though.

There's a 1989 version by the English Shakespeare Company on YouTube, starring Michael Pennington as Henry, where they make him SUCH a bastard that the play is frankly hard to watch. The scene with Katherine at the end is skin-crawlingly awful.

That's very much how I teach it, as well — it's written, after all, at the end of Elizabeth's reign, and like Henry V she too was a beloved monarch but her lack of offspring/interest in naming a successor meant the future was highly uncertain. She might just as well have said "I am Henry V, know ye not that?"

I think this post gave me vaginismus.

I wrote my dissertation on depictions of Richard II in the 1590s and I flinch every time I see this comparison getting made!

Don't be afraid to use your nails, boys!

They made a caramel cod!

"Homer, give me my pepper spray!" "Aw, Marge, one squirt and you're south of the border!" *eats eggs* "Mmmmm…incapacitating."

I have to admit I actually squeaked and clapped my hands a little when they showed the note. GO MOIRA.

Also he's going to be voiced by David Tennant!

I would be surprised if that's not actually on a random billboard somewhere in Indiana.

It stinks!

The review gives the impression that the flashbacks take up more time than they do — we do spend most of the ep with June.

He was so gross in this episode I nearly turned it off.

When are we gonna get to the fireworks factory?

Sinky the Sinkhole Sprite?

It can be, as they say, two things.

He's SUCH A GROSS CREEP.

It's interesting that they didn't use the Song of Songs, which is the legitimately sexy part of the Bible (there's a tradition of allegorizing it, but most modern theologians also read it as an endorsement of happy sexy funtimes in appropriate — generally assumed to be marital — contexts). The use of the Genesis quote…