Moved and seconded. I was always delighted to see him in any cast, and the two roles you highlighted were my favorites as well. 58 is far too young to lose such a fantastic talent.

Like how in the last few minutes of Get Shorty, Harvey Keitel (playing Dennis Farina’s character) gets to say the iconic line “Fuck you, fuck-ball.”

<mumbles poutily, pushes a bowl of cereal off the kitchen counter>

I will say that Wayne June’s narrations are always a treat. The prompt when a Jester is selected: “He will still be laughing... at the end...” is a personal favorite.

For me it was the way finishing each quest left me emotionally exhausted even when things went “well” — sure, maybe nobody died or picked up a permanent affliction, but battling my way back from the verge of death and insanity always made me doubt I could cope with another quest in the same session, and usually log…

Ted’s [arc] varies wildly from episode to episode, depending on the narrative that particular week (where was any of his angst this week when he was making speeches in the locker room?)

For sure. Anybody who tries to have this debate and doesn’t say “after James Marshall Hendrix” right from the start isn’t being serious.

News tickers didn’t really become a regular thing on any network until 9/11, when suddenly everyone was starving for up to the minute news on everything happening everywhere, and it simply wasn’t possible to break into ongoing live coverage with the updates.

Chuck seemed to get canceled and uncanceled just about every season. Sometimes it seemed like the partnership with Subway was the only thing keeping the lights on.

For me, the only thing redeemable about Superman III is that, late in the film, Richard Pryor gives Superman a Soul Brother handshake. It ain’t much, but I dig it.

A (very positive) review I read in Slate or somewhere called her “newcomer Abby Ryder Fortson” and I wanted to say “Hey, that’s no newcomer, that’s Cassie Lang from two of the best-loved MCU movies!” She may only be 15 years old but she’s got 10 years in the business. She’s a pro!

Finally, a convincing use case for AI.

Indeed. Let’s all enjoy these Teaches of Peaches.

Suburban Chicagoland boasts a Des Plaines as well, with two non-silent S’s.

We came full circle on Napoleon’s cognac too — the little bit of symbolism in the previous episode where Perry thrashes Pete so soundly that he pukes up the special beverage with which Milligan so condescendingly “rewarded” him for his betrayal was almost too cute, but Pete turning around and pissing in the bottle…

The main thing that pointed me in that direction was how much more poised and confident Kristen seemed in the second scene. One could attribute that to her story about how Sally was the only one to “get anything out of her” among the acting classes she’s taken, but to me the more reasonable interpretation (which, on Ba…

I heard it more as a “Rip Torn was a badass” remark, rather than a slight.

1985 is where you were going with this. Godspeed.

Podcast doesn’t seem like the right medium for a story about lookalikes...you need that visual element. I’m thinking a 2-hour Dateline episode, sponsored by the Cheesecake Factory.

I actually encountered Janelle James’s stand-up before seeing her on Abbott Elementary — Netflix included her in one of their periodic packages of up-and-coming comedians a few years back (The Comedy Lineup, from 2018). If you enjoy her as Ava, I’d recommend her stand-up as well; it’s very much cut from the same cloth.