# Whoa, the Internet Movie Database just changed big time: **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 27, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-internet-movie-database-just-changed-big-time/341786 "2006-01-27T00:06:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-internet-movie-database-just-changed-big-time/341786/1 "2006-01-27T00:06:36Z")
All TV shows have season by season and episode by episode breakdowns. I’ve wondered for years why they didn’t do this. Not only that, but they now list the episodes of shows people guest in right in their credits, with a clickable link for the episode. It’s kind of weird. Check it out. [Firefly](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461/episodes#season-1) [David Cross(scroll down to see how it works)](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0189144/) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-internet-movie-database-just-changed-big-time/341786/2 "2006-01-27T00:08:30Z")
Good. Maybe this will be the death knell for [TV.com](http://TV.com) (which absorbed TVTome). [TV.com](http://TV.com) really blows. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-internet-movie-database-just-changed-big-time/341786/3 "2006-01-27T00:12:00Z")
I noticed this earlier today. Maybe this explains why the boatload of goofs I entered for a show recently haven’t appeared? As goofs for episodic TV now have as part of the submission process a request for the specific episode. I hope that, if that’s the case, the master list of goofs will still be accessible via a single click (and in order by episode would be nice). ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-internet-movie-database-just-changed-big-time/341786/4 "2006-01-27T00:40:08Z")
This is a huge improvement. Glad smeone took the time. They need a litle style and formatting help, some real inconsistancies there, but the concept was way past due. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-internet-movie-database-just-changed-big-time/341786/5 "2006-01-27T02:09:18Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > [TV.com](http://TV.com) really blows. I second that opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-internet-movie-database-just-changed-big-time/341786/6 "2006-01-27T10:03:06Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I second that opinion. …thirded, fourthed and fifthed. From a nice, clean, easy to navigate site that was regularly updated and I could find out what happened in the last five minutes of my favourite obscure programme that I missed because I had to go to the toilet, to a horribly bloated website with not enough updates… I miss TVTome… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-internet-movie-database-just-changed-big-time/341786/7 "2006-01-27T10:15:30Z")
Very nice update, indeed! It seems they also threw in more advertising, of the “Click here if you want to proceed”-type. I could do without that. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-internet-movie-database-just-changed-big-time/341786/8 "2006-01-27T13:25:28Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > All TV shows have season by season and episode by episode breakdowns. I’ve wondered for years why they didn’t do this. Did you genuinely “wonder” why they didn’t provide this labor-intensive convenience for free, or were you just hoping they would? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-internet-movie-database-just-changed-big-time/341786/9 "2006-01-27T13:37:52Z")
> [@Banquet Bear](#): > > From a nice, clean, easy to navigate site Wait. You’re talking about TVtome, right? Because, if so, I clearly managed to tap into the Universe 717 version of the site, because, the one I always got was a piece of crap that loaded slowly enough that I could go cook a meal while I waited for it to come up, and half the time thought it didn’t actually have the show I was searching for. It usually DID if I went to it through a Google search, but searching via TVtome itself almost invariably came up with crap. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-internet-movie-database-just-changed-big-time/341786/10 "2006-01-27T13:41:15Z")
> [@pizzabrat](#): > > Did you genuinely “wonder” why they didn’t provide this labor-intensive convenience for free, or were you just hoping they would? Given that the _entire service_ is provided for free as a means of generating traffic and creating revenue through sales of advertising, it’s a reasonable question. Making the information easier to use results in more users, which increases revenue. ---
**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-internet-movie-database-just-changed-big-time/341786/11 "2006-01-27T14:09:33Z")
The only thing that seems to be missing is a synopsis, even just a brief one. Or am I just missing it somewhere? thwartme ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-internet-movie-database-just-changed-big-time/341786/12 "2006-01-27T14:13:26Z")
> [@thwartme](#): > > The only thing that seems to be missing is a synopsis, even just a brief one. Or am I just missing it somewhere? > > thwartme No, you aren’t missing it. Maybe they’ll add it later. I checked a few shows and not all of the eps are listed yet. I guess it’s fairly new. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-internet-movie-database-just-changed-big-time/341786/13 "2006-01-27T14:16:03Z")
Wow. I may need to dust off the IMDB login and start submitting info for all that TV I have on DVD…