It's my new Thurs routine! I wake up, grab my coffee, see if the ratings are in (they never are) and come to see what This is a Stick has to say. And you should change it to This is a Stick with one leaf.

Oh man. I would love to bring back Charlie!!! He's like the old wise jedi master that is also a criminal…

To be honest? I know so little about sports it didn't even occur to me that football was in the fall. I wrote that VO days before it aired… so yeah… that's a major goof on my part. But if it was a VO about the actor who played Cobra Commander, I would not make the mistake that he also played Starscream.

I watched it with my wife and she enjoyed it, but it for sure doesn't have the laughs or heart. She prefers next week's episode waaaay more which hits the usual notes. They wanted to send this out to this to critics and I said no, just because it's not REALLY the show. It's like a fan at a convention is suddenly…

I had major reservations about that John Hughes line! The thing was, I wanted to be like this guy. I really did. Look at that body of work as a writer. It's really unparalleled. It kinda ends with home alone, perhaps maybe Dutch. But yeah, that's exactly why I put no one could be. Honestly, I will never write a…

So so terrible. They wanted to sweeten his voice as many singers do in the studio and I was like — hell no!!!

You're welcome. To be honest, the writers have to constantly pull me back when it comes to the 80s references. They just make me excited like a little nerd and then they go — we are NOT doing an episode about The Rocklords. This needs to be about the family. I sigh and relent, hopefully getting a Rocklords joke in…

Ha. All I can say is Charlie and I were texting all day the day before, he showed up early, told me the coolest stories in his trailer, went to set, crushed it and then left. I also quoted Hot Shots lines to him like an idiot. He entertained me. All in all an epic visit.

I live in fear of this. And I hope I do.

Where were you when we were writing this????

I love how most of the people in that scene were just people going to the parade who made it into this huge movie.

Well, Pops had his license taken away in episode one… so he'll live with having the ladies escort him around which is what happened in real life!

I love most dedicated. Someone also posted most optimistic. Honestly, if I knew either of these existed I would've used them. They're brilliant ways that kids are thrown a bone.

Yep. Farewell firebird. That was literally the car the real Pops drove, which is ridiculous and shows how ridiculous he really was.

Awesome question. I had to pick that REALLY short one of my mom for time. Throughout my childhood Chad Kremp and I kept filming Ferris bits which I want to release online. One I do the "life moves fast…" line in my bed. Another one Chad is in my robe doing the "go home bit", etc.

She DID jump into the pool. I love that shot cause she was so amped up she ran too fast and almost flipped into the pool.

I love that Ferris theory. We really dug into it in the room and realized then Jeanie would be fake… and everything kinda caved in. I wish the movie was really written with that in mind. Would've made it even more epic.

It WAS made for the promos and then I thought… man… I should've done that. Then in my head I started my regret train…. I would've put him in the first episode and had him appear every so often so it would've been earned and not a pandering cheat. Yes, I obsess over these things. This is what happens when they give…

That joke was pitched by a writer named Chris Bishop who comes up with some of the best lines. He also pitched the penny is the garbage of money, which I love too…

The real Barry would argue that he is the butt of all jokes and there was one time I was visiting and he watched the Punch Out intervention episode where ONE friend showed up and he came into the room and punched me in the shoulder as hard as he could. For real.