That was my thought as well. His imitation of Guillermo was the best of the three, which makes sense because they may be the most frequent scene partners on the show, so he’s had a lot of close-up exposure to the character. His Lazlo impression was a pretty good voice (Matt Berry is loads of fun to imitate; I do it…

Shore Leave is so iconic that he’s made me forget the name of the G.I. Joe character he’s a parody of. I wound up having to Google it during a recent chat conversation, because every time I tried to think of his name (it’s Shipwreck, to save you the trouble) the name “Shore Leave” kept popping in there instead. A…

Take that!

Seconded! I laughed out loud at that name, and his rueful farewell after poor Dr. Spinblades didn’t survive being used as a flying can opener.

I also liked her line right before the opening credits:

“(confused) Around the what? ...(excitedly) Ass?!”

I agree, these had just about everything I look for in Archer episodes, and I thought the guest voice cast were fine — I really have trouble relating to the idea that they dragged down either episode, or that Jamie Lee Curtis was bad (rather than just not being given enough to do) last season. Not sure I agree with…

I threw “Wake Up Little Susie” on a track list celebrating the founding voices of rock ‘n roll awhile back, and it still amazes me that such a sweet, catchy little ditty was considered provocative enough to be banned in the city of Boston. The irony is pretty thick, considering that it’s a song about two kids who are…

- Just curious, does Courtney own a single shirt that reaches her waist?

Is anyone else besides me happiest to hear that they’re bringing back the Keaton Batmobile? For all the praise of the Nolan/Bale Bat-films, they had by far the ugliest Batmobile and I won’t be sorry to never see it again.

I’m second to... well not none, but comparatively few, in my Treksmanship, and I would’ve been right behind this idea. Especially after I saw this:

I can see why Sly’s grunts make more sense than Ron F’s bubbly excitement, in a context where every second King Shark is on screen costs a skillion percent more than any of the other characters. Within those limits, I enjoyed what we got. But I’d be lying if I said “OH MY GOD IT’S BEYONCE!” wasn’t running through my…

The best observation about SNL that I’ve ever heard comes from, of all places, the political book Giant of the Senate by Al Franken (a title that was once amusing, then ironic, and now... both?); on page 26, he says:

“During SNL’s life span, the show has been at its best when there’s been an equilibrium between the…

Indeed, it was a short first season of only 6 episodes. Yet all six of them were executed well, held my interest through a 30 minute runtime, and established new characters and updated plot complications while still feeling like the same kind of humor as the original. I hope there’s more to come!

My take was that the arrest was for truancy. Both of them are under 18 and they just left school without permission in the middle of the day, which is illegal just about everywhere.  It doesn’t look like either of them got booked, they just got taken back to the station and had to wait for their parents to pick them…

Had we seen August Heart/Karan Oberoi speaking Punjabi before this episode? It seemed like the 3-4 lines he spoke in that language came out of nowhere, but maybe I just wasn’t paying close enough attention.

As somebody who watched them live, my opinion is that you’re not missing all that much. In those days the show wasn’t really commenting on the absurdity of politics and pop culture as much as it was commenting on the absurdity of cable/local news coverage, in the still-nascent era of 24-hour news. The show leaned…

Not just an arc, but for me, the arc that made the Legends legendary. Grabbing the three best villains of the Arrowverse (IMO) and teaming them up was a fantastic recovery from the mediocre-at-best debut season of the show, and effectively reset my expectations for what it could achieve when it was firing on all…

I also love his delivery of “Very good, sir!” when Harry is puzzling out what the escaped test orangutan is doing in “Monkey Business” from S3.

Interesting that you bring up another [as] show with an 11-minute run time — at its most mediocre, I often find myself wondering how many of these Rick & Morty scripts really need a full half hour. Many of them start out promising and move along well, only to wind up either spinning their wheels with a bunch of asides…

I’ll go further and say that it wasn’t Trump that turned opening monologues into a politics-first environment; it was the combination of Election 2000 (a month-long story that was both important and absurd, which ate everything else) and 9/11 (a traumatizing attack delivered right to the epicenter of the US…