What? No, Kael loved Bringing up Baby. I don't remember exactly what she said about it in that essay—maybe she didn't think it was Grant's best role, but I'm sure she didn't "slam" the film.

Maybe the title just refers to the "walls of Jericho" tumbling down.

Careful. Zombie Dick Powell is going to come back and kick both of your asses for talking smack about June.

I love them equally and always had the impression that modern critics do too. In terms of the performances, I'd agree that Friday, not Baby, is probably Grant's finest hour as a comedian, although they're very different parts and I love the fact that he could pull off both (not to mention totally different parts like…

His Girl Friday an "also-ran?" I'd say if either one of those films is an "also-ran" it would be Bringing Up Baby, which was a flop in its day. But I'm pretty sure they're both universally considered to be unimpeachable classics—and correctly so.

I hereby sentence everyone participating in this awful R.E.M. pun thread to death… by Catapult!

In this series, the Royals have beaten them NEARLY HALF THE TIME.

Yes, they continue to whiff on Benghazi and its endless comedic potential.

It does include Shiny Happy People—which, if nothing else, contains yet another indelible guitar riff from Peter Buck. You know what, I don't care what anyone says, I love that whole album.

Ironic? No, that line was a sincere, impassioned statement about corruption in the processed-cheese industry.

Yeah, I've commented on this before, but I feel like the AVClub over the years has done about five different features about how much they hate Radio Song—a completely insignificant throwaway in R.E.M.'s vast, celebrated, 30-year catalogue. And it's not even that bad (Buck's guitar, in particular, makes it worthwhile…

Except they also ran that 1990 episode beforehand which featured her in 5 or 6 comedy sketches.

Ah, OK. I think Schiller may be one of the extras in it, anyway.

"You want me to step off? Oh, Tony… Oh Tony, don't!"

I don't know if I'd use the word "derivative." Similar concept in a different context with a different tone. Schiller may have written the earlier one too. The Martin-Radner thing was actually live, not a film, and their dance routine was comic, unlike the Hooks-Hartman thing. But both were great, and both, sadly, did…

"Gee, I wish he'd jump my bones."

You mean The House of Butt-a-few-o-co?

I don't mind Sweeney, but she couldn't hold a candle to Hooks, IMO. For me, Hooks would probably come in just below Radner, Fey and Poehler on the list of all-time great female cast members, probably top 10 or 15 among all cast members.

I remember Jan Hooks as a very sexy Bond girl in one sketch on that episode.

Hmm. I love the world-weary late Murray too, but in his early days he absolutely was one of the great screen comedians of all time.