The Action award went to Lone Survivor. Gravity got the award for Sci-Fi/Horror instead. Given that it has a Space Shuttle flying at the same time as a Chinese version of Mir, it technically qualifies as Sci-Fi, plus George Cloony's magic jetpack.

The writers of this show could learn something from Breaking Bad, where they would introduce a mystery or twist and two episodes later that mystery is in a plastic barrel being doused with acid. It feels like the writers must have to go through some crazy approval process for every plot point, so instead of that they…

Robot Chicken is overly long? Is anything longer than a music video too much for you?

if it was made in 1999, why does the animation look so dated? That's 10 years after the Little Mermaid completely revamped Disney's animation program, yet it looks like it came out of the 70s.

Any time a piece of media comes up with a time loop premise like this, Groundhog Day is referenced. It's not a new idea, many authors have used the "relive the same day over and over until you get it right" premise, but Groundhog Day is the one that everybody references when it comes up. That alone makes it…

There is a Donald Duck (really his Nephews) special where they relive Christmas morning over and over until they learn the true meaning of Christmas. I think it predates Groundhog day by quite a bit. Groundhog Day is famous for this only because it did the concept so well.

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I'm pretty sure than Indian lady from Centipede is supposed to be a big villain, but I'll be damned if I can even remember her name at the moment.

Uncle Grandpa lost me almost immediately. It leans way too heavily on the monkey hat cheese form of "random" humor. That only works IMHO if it is contrasted with a sensible world, it's a kind of humor that needs a straight man. Otherwise random stuff happening just becomes the norm and it loses its comedy value and…

If this is anything like the original Star Blazers, you'll need to shoot yourself in the head with that gun after every episode.

Stranger in a Strange land started out pretty strong with fish out of water and outsider perspectives on life. I was really enjoying it, even with the Man Men sensibilities towards women. I'm willing to forgive old books for this, they were from another time.

I read one of the later Xanth books and he thanks all of the people who sent in puns that he used in that book. Presumably his fanbase is wildly loyal and dedicated and are the reason his publisher has not stopped him. They must sell enough books to make a profit on each one, even though it's hard to imagine new…

I never read Piers Anthony as a kid, but I picked up one of the books from the library to see what I had missed. It was one of the worst pieces of trash I had ever read. It was later in the Xanth series, so every chapter followed the same formula. Some sort of pun would cause a problem, and the characters would…

I love how this show will throw in something like "oh, there's a giant underground kingdom of magical bug people, and one of them was trying to take it over with reanimated sand zombies but zoned out accidentally for 500 years or something" and it won't even warrant a single line in the writeup.

The skimming of the bank interest calculation rounding plot?  While I agree that it would get caught pretty quick I don't see how it is nonsensical.  What they're basically doing is infecting the database server at some regional bank chain that probably had shitty security.

I tend to think that he's a bit too prone to cherry picking data that supports his hypothesis and ignoring data that does not.  I'm not saying everything in his books is wrong, but he does overstate his case pretty frequently. 

I really hope he didn't defeat a tank with a rock in a sling. 

Um, that chart bottoms out at around 6000BC, well before any bible stories happened. 

I was thinking that if Jeremy Clarkson can keep his job, so can Tim Allen. 

And that was only after having an extensive leave of absence to deal with his Cancer.  It's not like he was cooking meth in the school either, so other than a bunch of excused medical leave he really didn't do all that much bad.  Then when he needed to actually get fired he just made a pass at the principal and got…