After finally introducing Sue, no less!  And Natalie Dreyfuss has been doing such a fantastic job, it would have been a gigantic loss to just scrap that whole relationship.  Glad they’ve found a way to make it work.

Thanks for highlighting how effective that demonstration of his powers was. In three easy steps he goes from incredible, to impossible, to miraculous and leaves absolutely no doubt as to who he is.

All of the sitcom-world bits have been very cleverly and affectionately done. Fantastic hair and wardrobe choices in every one, and needless to say, Olsen is just nailing the delivery. I’m enjoying it a lot!

Edgar : I was defending our country.

Unsolicited advice: just fill all your utensil slots with teaspoons and then you never have to look for the right one. Keep the tablespoons squirreled away until you need to reassure people who would judge your habits.

Man bursts into tears, says “But doctor, I am Ronald McDonald.”

I didn’t read Superior Spider-Man, but I did read Superior Foes of Spider-Man, and it was the funniest shit I’ve read since the old Giffen/DeMatteis run on JLU back in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Highly recommended!

My cat not only likes to use them as toys but is a particularly fiendish torturer. She prefers to scoop the mice up in her mouth and drop them in the bathtub, so there is no escape from her cruel ministrations. I imagine her crying out TAKE HIM TO THE THUNDERDOME!

As somebody who was living in Austin when the naked bongos story broke, that detail is providing multiple layers of nostalgia. A nostalgia onion!

I could take or leave the cartoons, but I remain fascinated by those tables and refrigerators crammed full of delicious-looking food that show up in them all the time. My main regret that we live in a world of real physics instead of cartoon physics is that I’ll never be able to suck an entire glazed ham off the bone…

Slate attempted to explain one possible answer to we, the baffled, back in 2019: https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/12/pete-davidson-sex-appeal-kaia-gerber.html

I can understand why it came to mind: it’s basically _the same_ sitcom as Just Shoot Me, only with actors that weren’t as talented (Kathy Najimy, as usual, was OK) and about a lingerie company rather than a fashion magazine, which is one of the reasons it failed. It also didn’t have the kind of joyful weirdness JSM…

My theory is that it was one of the few roles to feature David Spade as America was prepared to accept him: a low-status Iago with an unwarranted high opinion of himself. The roles which asked us to believe he was actually successful and/or admired were always paddling against the current of his David Spadeness and…

I felt the same way, but having seen him in a live show and a couple of Zoom riffing sessions since then, I was reminded that: a) J. Elvis was the youngest of the gang when the show started, either still a teenager or barely out of his teens, and b) the early episodes, before they really figured out best practices for…

I’ll stick up for “Doomsday Clock” off of Zeitgeist, even though it’s on the soundtrack of a Transformers movie. It has the kind of decadent growl that originally attracted me to the band in songs like “Quiet” and “Bury Me.”

I think the tweens and teens demographic is critical — a lot of SNL’s most memorable humor is broad and schticky, built on characters and catchphrases, and that’s the perfect kind of crap for a budding class clown to build your reputation on. It’s “transgressive” and “adult” without being too brutal or explicit, i.e. e…

Secret family shenanigan soap is just the worst.

I hear you about Ray; my guess is that it probably boils down to “stepping aside from Archer necessarily means not having a whole lot of time for Archer anymore” on Reed’s part.

A fact I know about Alex Skolnick: Testament is his FIRST band. He was a 17 year old guitar prodigy (who studied under Joe Satriani, another thing I know about him) who was signed to Megaforce and touring the country before his 21st birthday.

I would subscribe to a weekly Shoe Affirmations video.  There is a hole in the world only inspiring words spoken to shoes can fill.  Will you answer the call?