Is he still in that?

Zooks!

Ok, but "It's dumb, but so are your kids: A+" would be a pretty cynical way for a reviewer to approach their job.

The Marx Brothers stuff kind of raises the question of at what point a reference becomes so old that when someone uses it in a kids movie it's more likely they're hoping the audience won't notice that it's not original.

Every time I see that "80s Guy" villain in commercials and on merchandising, it strikes me that he doesn't scream "1980s" to me the way that I'm sure he's supposed to for the simple reason that they actually threw too many 80s hairstyles in at once. Like, he looks like someone Googled "80s hairstyles" and grabbed…

Bill's the new Rory!

I'm partial to Mohs Minj or HMS Monji.

There was one episode earlier this season - I think it was "Thin Ice" - where they showed a scene that had already happened instead of an upcoming scene. That made so much more sense. You get the same effect of people having to stop their fast forward because it looks like the show has started again without giving…

Yes! I'd been feeling like every episode this season just kind of stopped instead of properly ending, and then at the end of this episode they actually had a split second of the "squeal" before Orphan Black started and I realize THAT is what I was missing. It's like the little "ba-dump-ba-dump-ba-duh-duh-duh" before…

Same here. If you gave me a group of white guys of similar build in heavy makeup and told me one of them has John Simm in disguise, I probably couldn't pick out which one it was (unless the others were other famous people I actually do know well).

I heard that the post-polio syndrome thing was just a government smokescreen used to cover the fact that Andy's father's polio was actually cured by his participation in a supersoldier program, and that he faked his death, changed his name, and is, in fact, Mr. Incredible.

This is an example of the perils of overthinking. I knew that Master Ninja (and Fugitive Alien and that one where Merlin runs a cursed item shop) were more obviously cobbled together from episodes of shows, but I figured Mitchell was a better-known MST3K episode so I went with that instead, because I'm positive I'd…

You're sure they didn't just edit two episodes of Blood Drive together Mitchell-style?

Electric Light Orchestras.

Refuse to host EMFs? That's Unbelievable!

It's barely more than perpendicular!

But do androids pee on electric sheep?

You figure the scene with Missy at the end was filmed later and tacked on after they changed the order? If the episode was supposed to come before the three-parter and "Empress of Mars," that scene couldn't have been part of it.

This was one week I wasn't ticked off by the inexplicable scene-from-later-in-the-episode-with-no-indication-that-it's-not-just-the-show-returning-from-commercial commercials they've been doing this season, because they did one of those for Orphan Black during the final commercial break and, thanks to their other…

While, as you point out, most of "Extremis" didn't happen to the real Bill, it might be worth noting that the TARDIS actually didn't translate the Pope*, so that wouldn't have clued Bill in even if it had actually happened.