Second the Saragossa recommendation. Endlessly weird. I watched it with a break, though I imagine that watching the whole thing in one (strung-out) sitting would really drive the weirdness home. (If it doesn't kill you instead.)

Even through the late '80s, you would get bolder choices in musical guests than they had to— I couldn't imagine a Philip Glass type making it today, or some oddball choice (Percy Sledge, decades away from the height of his fame).

If they end up getting hitched in the end, it retroactively negates the skeeviness, right?

There's a video online where a fan runs across him working as a "spin the sign" guy outside a Little Caesar's.

It was (at least at the time)  a requirement for movies to have a color version … in France.

Yes, precisely.

"Fill my bookshelves. I need ten feet of books."

MUSIC SNOB RESPONSE:

There have been a lot of overestimates of how many people listen to any given terrestrial radio station, but this is the most absurd yet.

How have so many people failed to read any of the text below the headline?

Devil's advocate devil's advocate:

Also, weirdly, I was about eight years old when this song came out. I remember most other early-90s hits from my childhood, but not this.

Feel free to pick my brain.

I have SO much hate for nearly every Top 40 hit of the last … let's say 32 years. I can't be in a supermarket without being thrown into a rage.

Franju!

I just hate the texture of digital film. Namely, the texture of INLAND EMPIRE. Everything looks like a razorblade; it's literal-looking and cheap-looking and looks like the death of imagination.

Episode 200 isn't a sequel, per se, but it happens in the Don Dimelo universe, featuring an appearance by Dimelo himself.

Is the script available online somewhere? I did a mild amount of searching and didn't pull it up.

This appearance by Mulaney on CBB is what completely won me over— he's so quick-witted:

It's natural to empathize with Pinky (as the stranger to town, the eyes for the viewer) for the first half of the film—