I WISH the episode had included a barely-restrained furry.

Yeah that’s some sweet cherry picking of prices in the article. In the 3 states that I frequent, it’s always in the neighborhood of $0.50-$0.70/gallon savings - so that’s $15/tank.

I think Mike’s era was always very pointed and razor sharp, and I loved it immediately. But I don’t think the Mike stuff got really hateful until late in the Sci-Fi era, and I put a lot of that down to Bill Corbett’s work. He was a great Crow but an increasingly cantankerous riffer, and it came out onscreen more and…

They just opened up a Costco near my exit, so I've been going exclusively to Costco to get my gas. Another benefit of Costco gas is that it's Top Tier gas.

Definitely real. In my experience, also rare. The only bad thing about it is that there is significantly more liquid than in any other sex act that I care to experience, and somebody has to sleep in a king-sized wet spot. As to whether or not that particular type of orgasm is better than a “normal” orgasm, as a penis…

Some friends of mine and I at the time decided that if you didn’t cry in the first 10 minutes of Up, you were probably a Cylon.

Eh, we told all of you to stop doing slideshows but you’re not listening either.

I don’t mind the polish (although I did love the “figure out what piece of crap from Goodwill this thing is made out of” aesthetic of the earlier episodes.  For me, the only thing I really didn’t like much about Mike’s episodes is when the host segments became more serialized.  It’s obviously aged really bad now, when…

The “unsettling” quality is probably the only thing about Manos (the movie itself, putting aside the episode) that works - it’s like Joel’s riff about every shot looking like a person’s last known photo or Crow wondering if the Mads sent them a snuff film. There’s just something so...”off” about the production that…

Agreed. When Frank left, so did I. I like Mike and Joel equally.

Well said.

“No sir, that’s paper!”

I wasn’t there for the live riff, of course, but “This Island Earth can be yours if the price is right!” is a top shelf joke.

I like Joel as a host, but the movies during his tenure are very hit-or-miss for me (Especially stuff like the sloppily-dubbed Sandy Frank productions.) I found that the quality (“quality”) of the films themselves improved as the series went on; I don’t know if that shift was precipitated by Mike’s ascension to host…

I grew up on Joel, and I just never found Mike to be funny, just more mean spirited towards the movies, whereas Joel had more of a love for Schlock Movies. My former roomate loves Mike episodes, so we would force each other to watch the better of the others episodes (Hobgoblins, Cave Dwellers, Mitchell, ETC.).

Its good that even in its presently diminished state, AV Club can still put out the occasional informative and enjoyable article about something I care about.

I actually saw this in the theatre when it came out, and I didn’t realize it was on so few screens. Now I feel really lucky! One of my favorite movie going experiences, where everyone in the theatre was really into it and laughing a lot. I think the best part of it is how the riffing is often done as heightened…

I dunno about “Side Hackers.” Joel’s approach to riffing was certainly a terrible fit, but I’m not sure Mike would have done much better, because the experiment’s failure has less to do with the format and more to do with how “Side Hackers” the movie is just absolutely vile.

I have not seen the movie in years but the whole “Why, this isn’t paper, it’s some kind of metal.”  “No sir, that’s paper.”  Sticks with me and still makes me laugh.

Everything else aside, This Island Earth just wasn’t a great choice, because Mike era comedy—especially during the Sci-Fi run—just didn’t work so well with earnest, well-intentioned 1950s movies. Mike period humor just got progressively meaner as the show went on and worked best with hateful shit* like Merlin or…