Drive is much more Taxi Driver than Fast and the Furious.

Hi, I'm Teague. I make fake things either A. look real or B. happen quickly, and like to play the piano. My favorite movie is The Princess Bride and my favorite music artist is Ben Folds, followed by Nine Inch Nails and a thousand others that don't seem related to each other. I make things, do things and drink things, and if ever I can get people to sing Disney songs with me I am a happy boy.

That's basically a strategy to decide what episodes people hear, if what they're after is "highly rated" episodes. Assuming anyone comes to the site and says "alright, I'll give them a chance, which one is the best?" Not so much a means of tracking an episode's popularity, more a way of putting a best foot forward to someone who doesn't know where to start. I think of it as a greatest hits collection at the top of the stack.

To answer your question, I chose which ones got "good introduction" treatment, and which ones were deep cuts.  My personal criteria for liking an episode is how many cylinders I feel the episode fires on, the more the better, but it's all subjective.

At some point, probably soon, I'll actually go in an specifically pick which one goes on the very top, and second, and third, etc., by giving them even higher numbers. Right now all of the 5s are on top in some non-rating-based order.

I'd actually be open, if there were a convenient way for everyone to arbitrate between 131 episodes, to getting everyone's opinion to drive which ones are in the top ten or whatever. Might be easiest with the preferential ballot style voting we do on LCC.

Anyway, that's the ratings system.

Thanks everyone. God. It's been so much work for such a long time, I can tell you between Holden, myself, and Jim, this is just...great to hear.

It's not a huge deal or anything, it's just a website, but we really put a lot of effort into making everything just as good as we could possibly do it, and to get feedback like this is all we were hoping for the whole time.

John, this is the first thing we did with that...fucking wealth...of information. We might do another thing like this with different quotes, or the original synced-footage idea, or something else. And by the way, anyone is welcome to do a thing like iJim did, if you get antsy waiting for the next one.

Thanks for all the props, folks. This is one of those threads where pimps should be obligatory.

Go Holden.

We need one more quote for Project Halp, then it's done. Anyone remember a great line or two from this ep?

When nine hundred years old you reach.

I think it'll be really interesting to hear how a film analysis sounds after over 130 others, when compared to analysis for the same movie from before we had really done any.

Ha! Thanks man.

I've been calling 'em blurries on the show for years.

I AM THE INVENTOR OF BLURRY.