Oh yeah? Well I had sex with your wife!

I like South Park 'cuz I said I would. Wow, I'm a dork, huh.

Umm. I think you misunderstood my point.

I had an early-years university friend who had four brothers and was intensely competitive in everything from chess to basic conversation. He would give me grief for using words in a sentence without knowing their dictionary definition.

I see Hanks/Spielberg as credible enough enthusiasts of history/storytellers (both respectively and combined) that I know what quirks to look for. I'm agnostic enough a person to treat what sounds about right as a conversation piece with people who may know better.

Bit too existential a question for me (at this hour, anyway), but at least we don't have to wake up with the thought of taking a battle axe to the face, I guess?

You're right about the DVD's of both of those shows. The arc of Family Guy is interesting, and probably more transparent than Seth MacFarlane would like. Since the shift you mentioned, it's made some mixed steps to try and keep relevant. (I honestly think that South Park episode got to him.)

I agree, and should have specified that I agree the movie lost its way with most of its characters by the end. I liked the reveal that the mystery boy/girl was Talia al-Ghul, and also the twist of not using a safety rope to escape(Separately, a rope Bruce Wayne ostensibly didn't think to throw down to the other…

Ah, thanks. I was going off of the aforementioned depiction in the miniseries, which involved boiling tar. I don't know much beyond that, other than the intent was to show how brutal a practice is was.

May I ask the importance of the distinction? I've roofed exactly once.

I'm assuming that's a Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show reference, as I guess it's been that long, and you ending up sending me to Dictionary.com.

The 'ridden out of town on a rail' thing is interesting, and reminds me of the first installment of John Adams (also the best one), in which the brutality of tarring and feathering is shown, which should erase any Daffy Duck-related levity toward the subject. Boiling tar aside, the feathers weren't just meant to…

As soon as it came to mind, the intro did as well. Pardon my phonetics, but 'Bmm-Phwmm-Phwmm' put me to sleep happy.

The saxophone - start-to-finish - on "Us & Them" and the first-take vocal solo on "The Great Gig in the Sky", both from Dark Side of the Moon. Too popular a take, maybe, but they're just that good.

I agree, but disagree on the Bane voice, almost in the way I disagree with the backlash against Christian Bale's voice in The Dark Knight.

I've been mixed on Family Guy for years, but the "This will be a night you will never forget" bit made me laugh.

Or a tangerine.

I respected TDK as a political piece (as well as what it was - a great movie that's essentially just overplayed/over-championed almost 10 years later) in that it has the decency to engage in some civilian agnosticism over its subject. It's not a Bush or counter-terrorism apologetic so much as it is a snapshot and…

Twist aside, the Talia al-Ghul death scene was something out of a … whatever. Something out of a shitty movie. I didn't hate it, though.

TDKR - in my opinion - can be at least somewhat attributed (positively, I think) to Nolan's respect for Heath Ledger. He not only didn't recast him. The movie made no mention of his character. The third installment was supposed to heavily feature the Joker. Nolan didn't even want to do it. If he half-assed it, he…