Dan Liebke's Astonishing Tales

Boy, I bet Jack Bauer hates the end of daylight saving. “What? It’s 2 a.m. again?? But wasn’t it 2 a.m. an hour ago when I defused a dirty bomb, tortured a terrorist, defied the Secretary of State, infiltrated a moving jet and sucker-punched a cougar? Chloe, get onto the President and see what he [...]

Robin Williams’ ability to improvise has derailed the original vision of many a film. But has any film suffered from his tragicomically inventive touch as much as Dead Poets Society?

Cinema buffs, of course, know this film (original working title: The Perpicacious Mr Perry) was supposed to be a psychological slasher flick about arts-hating father Mr [...]

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Henry Gale
Michael Emerson

Featured Episodes

3.20 The Man Behind The Curtain
4.09 The Shape Of Things To Come
5.12 Dead Is Dead
6.07 Dr Linus

Strengths

Leader of the Others
Fashion-savvy
Can turn a donkey-wheel like nobody’s business

Weaknesses

Tends to get captured while flying balloons
Tends to use aliases from The Wizard of Oz
Tends to be tortured by Sayid
Tends to be beaten to a blood pulp [...]

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Naveen Andrews

Featured Episodes

1.09 Solitary
1.21 The Greater Good
2.14 One Of Them
3.11 Enter 77
4.03 The Economist
5.10 He’s Our You
6.06 Sundown

Strengths

Translation of French mathematics
Torturing people for fun
Can build electronic gadgets out of leftover plane parts

Weaknesses

Feeling guilty about torturing people for fun

Highlights

Torturing Sawyer
Killing one of T’Others with a sick breakdancing move

Other Facts

Was mysteriously keen on Shannon (until she was [...]

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James Ford
Josh Holloway

Featured Episodes

1.08 Confidence Man
1.16 Outlaws
2.13 The Long Con
3.04 Every Man For Himself
5.08 LaFleur

Strengths

Hoards everything
Man enough to make a move on Kate while on the island
Is often armed
But is rarely dangerous

Weaknesses

Murders people he doesn’t intend to murder
Needs reading glasses

Highlight

Getting tortured by Sayid and The Doc
Murdering Locke’s father

Other Facts

Troublemaker
Vengeful, but inaccurate
Is desperate to get back [...]

Elephants… of all the animals that evolved from the common starfish, the elephant is by far the largest. This assumes, of course, that one excludes giant starfish conquerors from outer space, which has been standard size-comparison procedure in the scientific community since the 1960s.

There are two kinds of elephants – the African and the Indian. [...]

Starring Clark Kent (Tom Welling) as Superlad, Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) as Sinead, Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) as TIAC, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) as Bo, Martha Kent (Annette O’Toole) as Boring Old Ma, Lionel Luthor (John Glover) as Porthos, Kara Kent (Laura Vandervoort) as SBH and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) as herself. For more information [...]

Starring Clark Kent (Tom Welling) as Superlad, Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) as Sinead, Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) as TIAC, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) as Bo, Martha Kent (Annette O’Toole) as Boring Old Ma, Lionel Luthor (John Glover) as Porthos, Kara Kent (Laura Vandervoort) as SBH and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) as herself. For more information [...]

Starring Clark Kent (Tom Welling) as Superlad, Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) as Sinead, Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) as TIAC, Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) as Bo, Martha Kent (Annette O’Toole) as Boring Old Ma, Lionel Luthor (John Glover) as Porthos, Kara Kent (Laura Vandervoort) as SBH and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) as herself. For more information on [...]

You know, it occurred to me the other night that if I was able to change my superpower I would change to the ability to control mosquitoes. Not only would this power mean that I would never again be bothered by the high whining noise of a mosquito in the dark, late at night, it [...]