“OH, MICKEY, YOU’RE SO FINE, YOU’RE SO FINE YOU BLOW MY MIND! HEY MICKEY! HEY MICKEY!”

Misery porn for #resistance types.

I’m glad that we’ve all started to acknowledge that this show is basically just well-acted and well-shot trauma porn.

The Bruce Willification of this story continues.... Will Moss’ hairline similarly recede with every fearless snide remark she makes as she laughs in the FACE OF DANGER?

The novel and first season were so good too..... damn.  But we’re still getting those close ups, so the drinking game is still on.

It wouldn’t be a great excuse, but did SNL actually poach many actors from MADTV? I always had the impression that the latter was a shitty knock off of an original, and I assume that SNL preferred to foster that general sentiment. 

How is this punk?

My grandfather had a “toothbrush” mustache. He grew it some time in the 1920s and then Hitler became a thing. My grandfather’s stance was that “it was his first”, he refused to change it, and had that thing until the day he died in 1995.

It was lo these many years ago that every celebrity interview promoting a new movie on AVClub would be quickly followed by an uncomplimentary review of that very movie.

I was like... 6 when this show was really humming, and I watched a lot of it, probably just because they were talking about Flipper and I watched Flipper or whatever. Working on this piece made me realize how much I was raised by TV or allowed to watch TV compared to kids today. No regrets, but, you know, I don’t…

If I remember correctly - as this was just about the tail-end of my paying much attention to MTV - the two finalists were the exceptionally likable and fount of encyclopedic knowledge Dave Holmes, and the basically-homeless annoyance that was Jesse Camp. MTV opened up the contest to all sorts of fuckery-by-proxy by…

I’m 51, so to say this show was in my wheelhouse would be an understatement.  It was a must-watch in every college dorm in America; irreverent, funny, hip.  So good.  Thanks for doing this.

Instead of trying new things, MTV just shows days straight marathons of Ridiculousness reruns  now.

I used to love Remote Control. I was probably too young to watch it and fully understand what was going on - I didn’t even get at the time that some of the people on it I would see in later works (Quinn and Sandler on SNL, Kari Wuhrer on Sliders, Denis Leary, Alicia Coppola, etc.). I mostly just remembered Ken - he…

You guys make fun but you know what would make this scene work? A little song called “Hallelujah.”

This is one of the actual cases where elements on both sides of the fence have cheapened a term with an actual, specific, literally clinical meaning. First it was THE YOOTS using it to mean “saw/heard/read something I didn’t like” and the wingnuts took it from there and turned it into a generalized insult to throw…

Series 7 is great, and genuinely has some interesting things to say - I don’t know why it’s gone down the memory hole as far as it has except that its refusal to distance itself from us by setting itself in some notional ‘future’ makes it more of an uncomfortable watch than people can bear.

It all dates back to Texas Chainsaw Massacre, doesn’t it? At the time it was a fairly clever and innovative idea that your group of threatened youngsters might be so awful that some terrible part of you wanted them to get meathooked and felt complicit in the horror, but it’s become a pretty standard trope, now.

Yeah that’s fair - although I read her libertarianism as more of a paranoid “big government is out to get me” strain than the Rand Paul “fck the poor” strain.

I’m genuinely shocked that this isn’t dialogue from deleted scenes of Walk Hard.

Rush was on Sunday NFL Countdown, not MNF, although he narrowly lost out to Dennis Miller on the MNF gig in 2000.