I guess for me it’s a different “debasement.” In Dolemite his “debasement” was being something of a seedy kind of character, and he’s done that several times in his career - sometimes magnificently. But Clouseau isn’t seedy - he’s accident-prone and a fool who has no clue (har!) whatsoever that he is any of these…

Everyone keeps calling Eddie Murphy a “comedic genius” but my lord is he ever terrible at picking his projects.

- The A.V. Club

Thanks, Edwin!

I was going to type out a long review and list of the things I liked and didn’t like I’ve been doing all season, but I just don’t feel like it right now because I just want to bask in the afterglow of this episode.

I see where you’re coming from, but I dunno - I just feel like I’d like a little more consistency from ep to ep than I’ve gotten. It’s a nitpick, I know, but it’s a little jarring when the bulk of the season has been Ted’s uncertainty and search for the right direction, and then he shows virtually no sign at all of it …

Here’s the thing about Nate. Because of his authoritarian dad, he’s naturally gravitated to and kowtowed to anyone who he might consider an “alpha” without any second-guessing about their motives. It happened with Ted, and that was part of Nate’s problem in S2 - because Ted was his “alpha” and was nice and kind to…

Well... that was an episode, for sure.

I wanted so badly to like it, but it just never came together for me.

Too much like the end of How I Met Your Mother to like it all that much.

Well, this was not a great episode. And as I finished watching, I reflected on how there seems to be a Law of Diminishing Returns with this writers’ group - both here with Ted Lasso and with their Lasso-adjacent Apple TV+ offering Shrinking - a show I initially loved but abandoned halfway through the season, even with…

Oh, absolutely. I guess I was just astounded at how the superfans absolutely lost their shit at that teaser. It felt different, you know?

My wife and I had never read the Marvel Comics, but we knew RDJ from other movies. My wife’s first comment was, “He was born to play this role,” and her second was, “Did Jeff Bridges burn his tongue?” Yeah, it was an interesting first watch.

Anyone who thought that Iron Man wasn’t going to be huge wasn’t around when they premiered the first teaser (I think it was at Comic-Con but don’t quote me on that).

Any kid of the ‘70s grew up as much on Gord’s Gold as they might have with Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours. Those songs were so pervasive, so hook-y, that they often tended to melt back into the subconscious while you were listening to AM radio and doing something else.

Ray Holt and Kevin Cosner were perfection. I loved every bit of their relationship. And just thinking of it makes me want to binge Nine Nine again.

I actually don’t think Nate realized that he snubbed Ted on the handshake until he saw Ted walking away, but that’s a minor point. And yeah, explanations are not excuses - bad behavior is bad behavior, no matter its genesis.

She kissed Jack first, yes... but only after Jack had gotten her quite drunk.

Well, one person’s “piece of shit” is another person’s emotionally-challenged human, I suppose. There are good people in the world who, through the circumstances of their upbringing, have defense mechanisms that make them lash out at people. It’s not innate cruelty, but innate insecurity and the weight of a massive…

Yeah, I can’t figure out if Jack is doing all this through overcompensation or artifice either. Because I like Jodi Balfour, I want to believe the latter, but my loyalty to S1 Keeley has me thinking otherwise. It’s a common tactic for social climbers and the uber-successful to make note of details and then use that…