I caught a stand-up routine he did in the ‘80s or early ‘90s — the excerpt I remember is a tight five entirely on the topic of a fart laid down by a sleeping passenger in the airplane seat next to him.

Murder on fantasy leagues, though — Weeks 8-9 go a long way toward determining whether you’re going to the post-season or cursing your fate. Having 16 squads down would be a nightmare.

How about we kill one of the preseason games, start the season a week earlier, and everybody takes the week of the World Series off (no…

I was dead certain that the capper for the pee ceremony would be a loud water-draining-into-a-bucket sound that just went on and on and on, with all the non-Moclans getting increasingly uncomfortable and maybe even having to go themselves. (It’s a year of pee, after all!)

I actually like it better than Blues for the Red Sun, which is tantamount to blasphemy in Kyuss fandom — or used to be, anyway. And it’s probably no coincidence that my two favorite tracks (“Whitewater” and “Gardenia”) were both written by Brant Bjork rather than Homme, who I do enjoy but is kind of the Paul McCartney…

I wanted to ACTUALLY her description of Kyuss as a band that “became” Queens of the Stone Age; it’s a bit like saying that Sleep “became” High On Fire — or for a more accessible example, that Guns ‘N Roses “became” Slash’s Snakepit. But frankly I should be glad that Kyuss is getting mentioned at all, and really the…

I agree with this. In fact I thought S2 much improved on this dynamic because it made a lot more sense for Jessica to have trouble resolving the conflict with the Big Bad when the stakes were so personal. The repeated ineffectual clashes with Kilgrave turned tragedy into farce, not a good look for a neo-noir story…

The way that the team littered history with transparently cheesy cover names was one of the things I loved most about this show.

Because of the way it was edited, for about 15 seconds I was convinced that Joel was going to give that $60,000 to the telethon. It would have undercut all the great character development he’s done this season to make such a gesture, and I’m glad he didn’t -- but what can I say, I’ve watched a lot of by-the-numbers…

It is indeed Chuck, and watching him being turned into some kind of hubba-hubba muscly action fella (6'3 frame or not) gives me the same sense of being out of place that I get from seeing Jim from The Office in action/leading man roles.

It is indeed Chuck, and watching him being turned into some kind of hubba-hubba muscly action fella (6'3 frame or not) gives me the same sense of being out of place that I get from seeing Jim from The Office in action/leading man roles.

Another TLK fan here. I found it pretty strange seeing the coldly chaste and pious Aelswith, who hates Uhtred and all Danes for their paganism, depicted as a thirsty young noblewoman overwhelmed by Bjorn’s raw sexuality. The last time I got whiplash like that was when I was watching The Borgias and Da Vinci’s Demons at…

Fumbling and recovering! *shakes head in bewilderment*

Which still doesn’t make any sense, because his issue was that people are too quarrelsome and self-centered as they are — how is this an issue that making them dumber will fix?

When she made that horrible joke about the pie I fell in love with her for the 919th time.

I still call Mardon “Evil Spartacus” whenever he appears, but to date he’s been pretty one-note, that note being “bristling with pointless hostility.”  I appreciate the effort to partially, sort-of, tentatively round him out with a bad breakup and a toxic relationship with his kid.

How about some love for:

My dad explained this to me, actually: when an actor is credited with “Special Appearance By” it usually means that they are free to accept other projects during the period that they’re contracted to work for you. The most familiar example might be Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan on Star Trek: The Next Generation — a…

Speaking as a lifelong Dungeon Master, I’m gonna say Hank is a True Neutral. He’s ostensibly protecting the timestream/Earth/the good ol’ USA, but he’s also clearly willing to dip into the dark side (Project Hades!) when the opportunity arises.

Guys, that was the first Time Core, made by whatever future civilization ran that ginormous complex where the Time Masters lived. The second Time Core can’t do all that stuff; it came from, I guess, the federal government of 2018?

Yeah, for whatever reason LaToya apparently just wasn’t on board with that kid’s acting. Her statements about how we “don’t care” about Adam or his brother pretty much show he didn’t get his one job done for her, that being to make us care about him in his limited screen time. I personally thought he was all right,…