They have to call it a reboot, because “Hey baby, I hear a sequel calling...” doesn’t sound as close to the original as “reboot” does when parodying “Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs” for the headlines.

I’ve had a soft spot for Rattle & Hum because I was in the crowd at Sun Devil Stadium for the concert they filmed for that part of the movie, and I’m in several of the crowd shots (my kids get a big kick out of 18-year-old me on camera). And, in fairness, it was a fantastic concert live.

As far as I know it’s a one-episode appearance, but I might be wrong.

My guess is Roz is still single, but Alice is grown and “outgoing” like she was in the original Frasier and so Roz is panicking about it as a helicopter parent. Given how the rest of the reboot/sequel writing has gone according to press reports, that seems to be the most obvious option.

This may be the retcon of all retcons. Dave Filoni should give her a call for Mandoverse brainstorming.

I love Roz Doyle as a character, which is why I’m dreading her upcoming appearance on nu-Frasier - given what I’ve heard about how much of Frasier’s backstory is ignored for cheap laughs, I can’t imagine the new show giving Roz her due.

The whole, say, minute that includes the eel braining and ends with the sprinklers going off is just an absolute masterclass of physical comedy and tight writing. Just brilliant.

Between “The Innkeepers” and “Nightmare Inn,” Frasier managed to pull off two of the most perfect sitcom episodes ever made.

For the Filoniverse specifically, but possibly also for the Abramsverse, I get the feeling that they get these grand narrative arcs in their heads, and they just move the pieces around until they reach the end. There seems to be no logical or emotional cohesion to what fills the void between endpoints, except that in…

TFA was less fan fiction for me than it was “non-Union Mexican equivalent” Star Wars. There’s serious “Señor Spielbergo” vibes to the whole idea of “Resistance” and “First Order.”

I’m mostly annoyed that this show was basically just, “Hey look, we brought Clone Wars, Rebels, and the ghost of Timothy Zahn into live action! Good luck figuring all this out if you haven’t totally invested in any of this!”

SCOTT STERLING!!!

Pasek and Paul have a knack for writing hellish earworms with staying power.

Well, my point was less about the need to occasionally show brutality in popular entertainment (for instance, the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan should be required viewing, IMO, even for kids in middle school, because it shows better than almost every other war movie what actual combat is like), and more about…

Unfortunately, it seems that for one exceptionally creepy demographic in Hollywood writing and directing circles, they can’t live a happy life unless they put awful shit like this on celluloid under the guise of “raw filmmaking.”

I was thinking it was more unconscious sociopathy - for me, the true asshole does it consciously, intentionally, and specifically to hurt and annoy people, whereas the sociopath does it by nature. But that could be construed as splitting hairs, so I dunno...

Huh... the more you know!

I don’t know if he’s fundamentally an asshole, per se, but he’s always come across to me as a guy who knows without a shadow of a doubt that he’s better and funnier than anyone else in the room, and that annoys me because in almost every case it’s clearly not true.

The reason I love Fletch is because it’s probably the straightest that Chevy Chase ever played it in a comedy. He played Irwin Fletcher as a detective who is doing a job and uses the silly stuff to disarm people or cause consternation so that he can exploit it. The sequel was horrible because the only thing he took…

Have there really been 11 different versions of The Office, or did you just mean an 11th season when you said “incarnations”?