I was going to ask (1) myself— the moment I started thinking about it, it really took me out of things.

One omission (I could check through all the comments, but Disqus is a pain, so I'll just post):

The Good Fairy, The Big Country, Mrs. Miniver, The Heiress… (and yes, the unusual, staggeringly great Detective Story)— Wyler's masterpieces are nearly endless.

It presumed it was a reference to Macklemore's "Thrift Shop" (or whatever it was), a song that's apparently a very big deal, but gained no purchase in my mind.

Great list, significantly better than anything the staff writers are offering. Floating Coffin is edged out only by mbv for me, and Sonny & The Sunsets have their second great album in as many years.

Murnau's _Four Devils_ is another one… people believed it turned up in an attic about eight years ago, but that turned out to be a hoax.

The procrastinating teacher sounds like a more interesting and appealing character, but oh well; it's great to hear the original cast is back together.

Let's be realistic: most of the damage was done well before 1998.

Intolerance loses all of the troubling baggage that Birth of the Nation carries, and has the advantage of being a significantly better film on every level.

Everybody's been doing these Wes Anderson parodies for years, but with one exception (Conan's Wes-Anderson-does-Star-Wars sketch), they've all just directly lifted characters/musical cues/sets from his movies. Pretty lazy.

The story is that De Palma invited Herrmann to see scenes from Sisters, scored to existing pieces that Herrmann wrote for various Hitchcock movies.

It's terrific, but a terrific B-movie. It's just to say that he wasn't only willing to do prestige-y productions at that point in his career.

Maybe it was all more of a nostalgia trip than anything fresh, but I absolutely loved this episode. There's no good way to defend the episode against accusations of "being flat," but for me, it was damn near perfect.

Leon Redbone's performance in his 1983 episode ( https://myspace.com/masterv… ) may be my favorite live performance ever, tapping unusual depths.

The people who like him and the people who hate him seem to agree on a
number of things— that he's a realist and not an idealist about comedy,
and that he does weird power trips (like make people wait outside his
office for three or four hours before letting them in)

The Bob Ducca/Merrill Schindler/Reggie Watts has to be the best-ever, in my opinion.

I've avoided Improv4Humans because I just can't stand Besser. Every single CBB appearance has been a chore to listen to, and I've disliked him ever since UCB.

Wow, you're right. That was the one bit at the desk that totally connected, and I could see that becoming the seed of her persona.

Well, 1995. (McKean, Elliott, Garafalo.) But I wouldn't mind if we just forgot that season existed…

The thing that hurts is that there is real talent here.