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"Simpsons dit it!"

Kentucky. Yes, because it's so easy to take Mr. Burns' yacht on a quick trip out to international waters from Kentucky.

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServ let/showid-146/epid-1523/

And don't forget The Frogger episode. Made me laugh my arse off at the final "frogging" scene with the videogame in the middle of the street :)

Check out Demonoid, it has several metric tonnes of Doctor Who, old and new.

Check out the TV Tome Episode Guide for the First 26 seasons and the movie and the 27th season to know what you're getting... recent episodes will probably be easier to stomach, older ones (back to 1963!) are very poor duplications of black and white episodes.

Starting with the newest season, the 27th, is a good idea since the show has been on hiatus for about 15 years and the new ones don't assume any background knowledge.

Check out Demonoid, it has several metric tonnes of Doctor Who, old and new.

Check out the TV Tome Episode Guide for the First 26 seasons and the movie and the 27th season to know what you're getting... recent episodes will probably be easier to stomach, older ones (back to 1963!) are very poor duplications of black and white episodes.

Starting with the newest season, the 27th, is a good idea since the show has been on hiatus for about 15 years and the new ones don't assume any background knowledge.

... when you're the last remaining creature, standing on a barren planet (or what's left of it)

Well, at least I still have my books. And the best thing is, there's time now... all the time I need.

<<Picks up a book, but glasses fall off and break.>>

That's not fair! That's not fair at all! (source)/p

55mph?

Their lawyers / safety engineers / etc. wouldn't let them drive that fast, so they drove 45mph.

They also never switched the vehicles, as they may have been tuned differently, so it was a completely unscientific test. (they were the same year and model, but that means next to nothing, due to the tolerances allowed in the engines and such).

Also, Jamie (the one who was driving with air conditioning), was wearing a heavy coat the whole time, because he put the air conditioning on maximum the whole time, rather than trying to get it to a comfortable level. He even complained that it was rather cold in the vehicle.

There's also no consideration given for any other vehicle make and model.

I'm normally a big fan of the show, but I can't believe that they messed up that particular experiment as badly as they did.

I suppose, then, I am addicted to electricity (like bender?) because I turn lights on more than 5 times a day. The "more than 5 times a day" sketch as equated to addiction is absurd.

I must be addicted to food, because I eat or drink something more than 5 times a day.

The word addicted is being abused. I find e-mail very useful, and I would be very unhappy and inconvenienced if I had to go without it.

Using something habitually is not enough for addiction in my book. The thing must also be bad, its use at the habitual level must have produced mostly negative consequences. There must be an extremely compelling short-term benefit in exchange for severe negative long-term consequences of continuing the pattern.

This is why we say people who take harmful drugs are addicted or drink a lot, whereas people who eat every day or just have a beer a week and or so and drink water many times a day are just satisfying their physical and personal needs and desires.. just going about their daily business.

Eating food or drinking water every day is not going to hurt you in the long term, despite the short-term benefit. Your choice of foods is another matter (if you choose one sort of food every time and eat it too much, then there could be an addiction...)

Most people eat food 3 times a day, we don't say they are addicted to food. Most people drink water many times a day, many people start their day doing this, but we don't say people are addicted to water. These habits sustain, add order to, and help make parts of our lives simpler and more manageable.

There are other physical activities people do, like disposing of bodily wastes. These are natural seemingly harmless activities, just like checking e-mail.

Habits help us focus our mental energies into planning out and explicitly making the decisions about the important things and problems in life: for the trivial things, habits are mostly sufficient, they reduce the amount of self-micromanagement of our activities that's necessary, and ideally they are a safe bet (best way to proceed).

With e-mail checking, the habit may be there, but something else isn't... an impression on the people that e-mail is bad or unnatural. A desire to stop checking their e-mail which they can't fulfill without extreme effort and help: a true addiction.

If it is not something degrading or that will get in the way that you should want to stop, then it is not an addiction.

12-Stepping (a la Alcoholics Anonymous) or, in this case, 8-stepping, are totally Bullshit! anyway.

Hmm, strange to remember that some people actually have to check their email. All my accounts notify me. If it takes the average person 1 minutes to check their email, then you could say I check mine 960 times a day.

That doesn't make me an addict - that makes me normal :)

... when you're the last remaining creature, standing on a barren planet (or what's left of it)

Well, at least I still have my books. And the best thing is, there's time now... all the time I need.

<<Picks up a book, but glasses fall off and break.>>

That's not fair! That's not fair at all! (source)

... killed by SciFi : Sliders, SG-1, Andromeda, etc....

Because there are only 20 episodes of the original? SciFi would have two choices: either run the episodes once a night every night or once a week for twenty weeks.

After you've run the episodes, then what? Repeat them?

Also, if you'll notice along the left side of the page I linked, right below the picture of Darren McGavin, there is a link from October of 2004 which says that ABC is in the process of remaking the Night Stalker series. Oh wait, that new series will be showing this fall.

Perhaps you missed the Night Stalker marathon on May 18th? (bottom of the page)

for those that don't know the whole "random title " 2 - Electric Boogaloo comes from the movie Breakin' 2 - Electric Boogaloo and has been used by anyone desperate for a laugh.

Ah yes, at first glance, I thought this was an Arrested Development ref. (like here). Sacramende! And A.D.'s been renewed! Woohoo!

They have. check out:

http://www.tvtome.com/Futurama/eplist.html

Compare the Production numbers to the FOX Episode numbers. The episodes in "Season 5" are actually all from Season 4, plus one from Season 3.

If marijuana should be illegal because it's harmful, then alcohol and tobacco should definitely be illegal too because they're much more harmful than marijuana. And probably coffee should be illegal because that's in the same harmfulness ballpark as marijuana.

Marijuana is an interesting case - it's the classic example of a currently illegal drug for which there is no good reason (not even the poor reason of "it'll hurt you!") for its illegality. It's mildly intoxicating and it's not addictive (perhaps habit-forming at worst (ie. much like using the internet :), but not addictive).

Penn and Teller's Bullshit did an episode on drugs in general (and marijuana in particular) a while ago. The one bit that stuck in my head involved them showing death counts due to particular drugs. Cigarettes - quite a lot, as you'd expect. Alcohol - quite a lot as well. Marijuana... zero. As in "not any at all, ever".

So why is it illegal again?

I find it very difficult to believe the cost to society of legalising all drugs could come anywhere near the cost of the "war on drugs". Also, legalising drugs would (conveniently) upset one group of people more than any other - organised crime (Homer: "Mmmm.... organised crime"). Their biggest money-earner would be gone just like that.

Yeah, we all know how powerful the night club lobby is. They're right up there with the Astronomer Lobby.

Star Wars had a lot more context than people these days realize.

Don't you mean buggalo?

I did see a few episodes involving a terrorist attack on Vulcan, and I liked what I saw. However, it wasn't compelling enough to pick it up and try to get into it. I liked the scene where they were playing basketball on the ship, it really connected "us" with "them".

I might check out the coda.

You're not worthy of watching the movie until you've survived the TV cartoon series.

A la Seinfeld - The Nap? Very funny episode.

Serenity Now! Serenity Now! get yours here or here

It depends. I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that in some cultures in some eras of our history, whores were considered respectable women. (Examples, anyone?)

Besides, the Companions in Firefly weren't exactly high- or low-class, they were sort of in between. You could always tell that Mal had sort of a love-hate relationship with Inara. He really liked her, but he absolutely hated her profession. Even though many held her in high esteem, you could tell that some did not. Watch the episode "Shindig" to see this sort of high-class/low-class duality of the job.

Also worth noting is that not all "whores" in the Firefly universe were respectable, only registered Companions. There were presumably the cream of the crop, women of such exquisite quality that they were very well thought of. They also weren't "whores" in the sense of the word that you simply paid them for sex, they were also very highly educated women, trained in many arts and skills, who provided a sort of relationship fulfillment service, not just mere physical pleasure. Watch the episode "Heart of Gold" to see how the non-Companion whores were treated. They were low-class outcasts. Even today in the United States, this whore class system exists. The prostitutes at the brothels in Vegas are much better thought of than the whores on Seventh Avenue. Some porn stars are held in extremely high regard in a weird sort of way.

So I guess my point is that although it's different from the way we think of prostitutes today, it's not really too farfetched an idea.

And no, I didn't memorize all of the episodes of Firefly, I cheated.

And any reasonable person would use RTTH not RPH.
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServ let/showid-146/epid-1406/

Two words: "Toaster Oven"

Stallman and Carter: two sides of the same Commie coin.

Well, Carter IS history's greatest monster...

..or just use one of Bill G's android love slaves.

Come on, you know he has them... A computer nerd with a gazillion dollars!

I mean really, what would the average slashdotter do if they were in his shoes?

Maybe I'm just confusing reality with this.

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServ let/showid-17591/epid-349683/ (under "Cultural References", Mike Sorayama)

Did every single trek series have episodes about space-nazi's?

24 is the highest number, you bunch of fazools. Fuhgeddaboutit.

I must be in some bizzaro world...

Just don't give turtle-face batman a peanut. He's allergic

(reference for those who didn't get it)

Sequels would be nice, but... (Score:1)
by kronocide (209440) on Wednesday April 27, @09:02AM (#12357953)

What I really want is the series back. The kind of character and story development you can do in movies is so limited compared to a TV series. There is no way it'll be the same. And anyway, I'd like to see the story continued from where the series left off.

And did anyone else think that the black bad guy in the trailer seemed a lot less impressive than the bad guy (on whom I suppose the movie one was based) from Objects In Space?

What makes you think that Chiwetel Ejiofor's character is based on on Jubal Early (Richard Brooks)? Because they're both black?

To the guy who thinks that Ejiofor "should be presenting kids TV :-/," run, don't walk to the video store and get Dirty Pretty Things. Audrey Tautou was given top-billing in the United States simply because American audiences were familiar with her from Amelie , but Ejiofar is the star of the movie.

As I recall, Jubal Early was a bounty hunter, not a soldier. And he was left to die in space at the end of the series. The chances of him being rescued were infinitesimally small, unless Zaphod and Trillian happened to engage the infinite-improbability drive at the right moment.

Damn Enron/government plots. Somebody should talk to them. These guys will get to the bottom of it, though.

I remember one episode in the series (Where Jane was shooting at something through space) and it was completly silent. Maybe this is just my bad memory, but it seems like there was at least an attempt to do the no sound in space thing.

Yes, that'd have been Our Mrs. Reynolds.

The TV show did no-sound-in-space throughout - which is why everyone's commenting on the sound in the trailer. It's mentioned on the DVD commentary that they made conscious choices to do no-sound-in-space and no-aliens to set Firefly apart from other space shows.

... and put on the TV they would know that world famous Geologist Randy Marsh already discovered this problem and how to solve it ...

I like how these guys put it

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServ let/showid-344/epid-174279/[Free HAT]

Maybe he'll re-re-release 4, 5 and 6 on blu-ray replacing all the laser pistols with walkie-talkies and changing the word 'rebels' with 'terrorists' to make it more current and P.C.

No, wait... that was Lucas.
I remember in the 80's seeing made for television cartoons DROIDS and some ewok movies. They didn't seem to last very long or go anywhere. I wonder why he thinks this time will be any different. Someone once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results." Can this be submitted as proof that the all powerful Darth Lucas is off his rocker?

I wonder if Borat Sagdiyev will interview them.

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/GuidePageServ let/showid-34391/epid-407904/

If you want to know what episode. It may contain spoilers if you don't like to know what future episodes will be about.

"Rice is actually on the leading edge of nanotechnology research... Here is one professor's (Richard Smalley, Nobel Prize winner) list of papers: list."

"Mr Richard Smalley, formally known as 'Inch High, Private Eye' could not be located for comment. Investigaters are presently combing the carpet for him, and have called in an expert to help."

For the clueless.

Next up we will see how sex lower people's IQ. Imaging you're answering questions in front of naked marketing chicks.


That depends of who you ask. If you ask George, he will tell you he learned Brazilian Portuguese in only an afternoon. If you ask Elaine, she would just say "what"?

Next up we will see how sex lower people's IQ. Imaging you're answering questions in front of naked marketing chicks.


That depends of who you ask. If you ask George, he will tell you he learned Brazilian Portuguese in only an afternoon. If you ask Elaine, she would just say "what"?

You're thinking about that Seinfeld episode, I take it, The Abstinence, George can't have sex for six weeks, and he becomes smarter.

ha ha! Here's a picture of it and the history behind the Dawson's Creek Trapper Keeper.

Now, excuse me, there's a guy offering me pudding pops for my laptop...

Wouldn't it be funny if they [dinosaurs] did have a space program and just haven't bothered coming back?

They did have a space program. They even CAME BACK.

Here's the proof!

Or WiMaxPower...

Now we can get the production quality of The StarLost. (For those that haven't seen the show, don't bother. For other starlost fans, I'm afraid it'll never fly again, even from the backup bridge.) (more)

Anyway ... I'd love to see this happen, particularly if T'Pol were in town during shooting. Would there be any way for 7 of 9 to make a Borg cross-over episode? (Seeing that the show has already jumped the shark, it could happen. Imagine them allowing the engineer to have sex, and in the first season, even.)

Come on up, Enterprise. Live long and prosper in the great white north.

Your sig's quote was not invented by who you think it was. That quote is by Bender, from the television series Futurama. episode 1ACV02, "The Series Has Landed.

Only you can prevent misattributions.

Master Shake, is that you?