Talk and Relevant Discussions in Snark – 5-13-13 – Your Weekend TV Talkback
Some of you are already discussing Doctor Who in the weekend thread – I liked the Dave McKean-style inside-the-head bits, even if Locutus of Gallifrey seemed a tad familiar.
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The Simpsons did a Robot Chicken couch gag full of enough toy-collecting references to choke a scalper. I can’t find the actual gag online, but here’s part one of a making-of series:
And the best SNL skit of a bad bunch – the inevitable Disneyfication of J-horror. A few years too late to be really groundbreaking (J-horror is probably being badly joked about by Michael Ian Black and Chris Jericho on some VH-1 “I love the oughts” special as we speak), but it still made me laugh.
Your space to discuss these, Game of Thrones and everything else begins below.
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