There actually is a real bird called a snipe. That's why that prank never made sense to me. My dad tried to tell me about how funny it was to make the new kids go on snipe hunts at Boy Scout camp, and I was like "because they can fly, right?" And my dad would say no, because they don't exist and I said yeah, they…

In addition to that and the "Gort" reference the review noted, the "definition of insanity" that Barry was quoting is claimed to have been originally said by Einstein in the 50s. I read an article where someone tried to track down the actual origin of the quote and the earliest reference they could find to the version…

Well they did give Victoria Hand the incongruous red streak in her hair. I'm betting if they could find a way to make it look halfway decent on screen, they'd go for it. (And if they couldn't find a way to give her green hair that doesn't look ridiculous on camera, I bet they'd at least either have a line about…

Once you get past the hurdle of why Barry would ever create another time remnant, knowing that one of them will become Savitar*, it's not that hard to rationalize it. They'd hate it because they know it's going to become Savitar. They may try to be nice to it to keep it from going evil, but then standard TV writing…

So how long before Barnes goes so far off the deep end that he completely loses the "r" and "s" from his name?

You're probably right, and Dahh-Ren was probably just using "racist" as a catchall term for prejudice based on someone's origin, but it could also mean that he was actually human, from a race that doesn't exist yet in the present, possibly genetically engineered to colonize a hazardous planet or something.

I've always felt like there was a stretch of the show - I want to say mostly during the 5th Doctor's tenure - where there were so many ill-defined and unremarkable (if generally inoffensive) companions that it started to feel like whenever someone got cast as a guest character in an episode they had them roll a pair…

To be fair, we're all chained to the rhythm.

Okay, with all the problems with this episode, here's the one I can't get past:

I may be - and hope I am - reading too much into a season that's only three episodes in, but so far this season has made sure to remind us that the Doctor stole the Tardis, that it's intelligent (he said you don't pilot it, you reason with it), and that it takes you where it thinks you need to be more than where you…

If this is set in the DCU, yes. If it's Marvel, no.

My feelings kind of echo the review, though not necessarily for the exact same reason. Capaldi's great, Bill is delightful, the episode had some nice ideas, good atmosphere - there was a lot I liked about the episode, in general. But I have a hard time saying it was a good episode for two reasons that I'm having a…

One of my favorite arcade memories is the time I was teaching my friend - who had somehow never played the game before - how to play Street Fighter 2, and while I was watching him play against the machine, a couple of dudebro types came over and one started some alpha male arcade bully crap, telling his friend "We can…

I forget, have they actually shown Dreamland Cyril's wife, with whom Archer had an affair? If not, she should be Trinette.

Remember, if the precinct closes and Jake and Amy aren't working together anymore, he'll forget she exists like a goldfish.

As every hack animation writer knows, fat people literally never don't have food in their mouths, so if you aren't fat when you start voicing a fat character, you will be when you're done.

I think its "Eric Eric Bo Beric Banana Fanna Fo Feric" minus an "Eric Eric Bo Beric na Fanna Fo Feric."

Yeah, I was kind of wondering if, in the actual context that speech is taken from, the "war veteran" might not be Hera referring to herself, or Rex.

Honestly, I'm kind of glad they're ending Rebels, in that I never liked the idea of the show extending indefinitely in the space before the original trilogy (and Rogue One). For one thing, the more Kanan and Ezra do with the Rebellion, the harder it becomes to believe how certain the Empire was that the Jedi had been…

I took the 70 years thing to mean that teaching at the university is one of those things we're meant to understand that the Doctor's been doing "in the background" for the duration of the series. Like, every incarnation of the Doctor periodically popped over to give a lecture or two when he had the time.