I suggest you read the late Kurt Vonnegut’s short story, “The Big Space Fuck.”

In a 1972 story titled “The Big Space Fuck,” Kurt Vonnegut names his spaceship with “eight hundred pounds of freeze-dried jizzum in its nose” the Arthur C. Clarke, “in honor of a famous space pioneer.” Its mission is to impregnate the…

The townsfolk never even got an apology for their months-long(?) living nightmare, which annoyed me.

Killing a dog doesn’t make her evil. Michael kicked a dog into the sun on The Good Place and he’s the architect of Eleanor and Chidi’s heaven. That reminds me, I really need to finish watching season one.

I’m actually hoping DC now casts her as another seemingly random person who turns out to be a comic villain, which by this point everyone will see coming so the fun will be guessing which one it is.

Great recap of an overall good, fun episode, but you failed to mention Mayfeld’s Office Space reference when he tried to rescue Mando from Hess:

My favorite CYA explanation is that it’s Star Wars Captcha, and it’s literally just making sure you’re not a robot.

Mando having to take off the helmet felt very contrived. I knew it was coming after their conversation in the vehicle, but it felt really dumb the way it played out. Like a face scan would be a security check to make sure you are authorized for access, not just require any face.

I think I said this over at I09 last week, but I’ll repeat this here:

Yeah, I knew they hired Pauson to do something. Paulson is such a heavy hitter—she’s like the Yakuza in the white suit in that classic Simpsons bit. You know she’s gonna do SOMETHING... and when she does, it’s gonna be good.

One of my very first dates was taking a girl to see Ishtar.

Elaine May once quipped something like, if she had a nickel for everybody who hated Ishtar but hadn’t seen it, the movie would’ve done killer box office.

to Betty (and us), her disinterest in engaging with Phyllis seems naïve.

There is an episode that still gets quoted around my house all the time, where Lowell is being interviewed for...a dating show? something?

Bebe Neuwirth had one of my favorite lines on TV in her guest spot, from Lilith to a babbling Helen, “You know, it is permissible to have an unexpressed thought.”

‘Girl you met at a party’ would work well in this format.

She said she’s not good at video chat stuff. I don’t know if that was the reason or if something was cut. I was thrown at not seeing her. I don’t think she’s ever been cut from an episode? She’s one of their main leads and I get the feeling this is her last season (or would have been), so I don’t know if they would…

What happened to Cecily Strong?

Santiago Chili is a completely separate Madrigal restaurant, unaffiliated with Los Pollos Hermanos.

That was some ACE retconning for Herr Schuller - the SuperLab was the bane of his existence to construct.  He feared that his embezzlement/misappropriation would be detected and ruin him for years.  Then it doesn’t happen and the lab is built and is hugely profitable!  Then the lab explodes and he’s discovered! …

So many shots in this show and BB are like elaborately constructed paintings.