This recipe is a little fussier than I've seen, but it confirms the ratio: [link]

I'm rewatching Blake's 7, and there's a scene where Blake and another shipmate are being held at gunpoint, and the morally dodgy member of the crew makes a trick shot (from where the baddies can't see him )to save them. When complimented on his aim, he says "I was aiming for his head."

I'm being told by a few insistent people that that is a trope (insert tvtropes link here) that both Firefly and B7 used. Is it still really a trope with that many similarities? Wouldn't homage be a likely term, especially when you consider Blake and his ragtag handful of a crew are bopping through space fleeing from the government?

I have also seen it that precisely close in The Mentalist, and I have no idea about the provenance there. Now, when Spencer makes a kill shot in Criminal Minds and deflects the compliment with "I was aiming for his knee"-- that is re-using the trope.

Didn't Castle use the "I was aiming for X" thing?

I'd call it a cliche, frankly. I did like the CM twist on it.

Google turns up mostly those three shows though, and on ipad it's too hard to tell what turns up after the first few pages. So in that case I'd go with ita.

Didn't Castle use the "I was aiming for X" thing?

Yes, but at least we know that was a homage.

Is it a trope with only two known instances? Otherwise I'd say the FF scene was an homage to B7.

ION, I got men's slippers with rubber bottoms that my air cast can fit into, but I also scored new ankle support that is a bit more discreet that I might even be able to fit into one of my sneakers (I'm just concerned about the twisting involved in shoving my foot into one of my usual shoes). But, it's still better than the ace bandage, in terms of ease of getting on and off, and support.

There is no neat way to make marmalade.

Burrell, if you are coming in for MLA and would like to get together, let me know.

I am going, Sox, and would love to meet up. I'll be in interviews all day however, so not sure how much time I'll have. (I am on the interview committee this year.)

There was a similar bit in The Magnificent Seven. I think it's a not uncommon joke in Westerns, but I wouldn't call it a trope. I don't have an argument for why not, just an opinion. A strongly held but otherwise unsupported opinion. That should go a long way on the internet.

Go you with the marmalade making, Allyson!

I don't know why I even make plans. I have done no laundry. I did run the mower over the lawn (to no visible effect, but, whatever, I know I did it) and have some more meals in my larder and slightly fewer dirty dishes, so not a total productivity fail.