@ElZilcho:disqus Wow, do I feel prescient…about something that already happened.

Woo, gotta respect the boldness of that opinion. I've cooled a bit on him recently after realizing he's very proto-Sorkin, giving these impossibly eloquent monologues to white dudes in suits who see the world so much clearer and are so better adjusted to injustice than those dirty hippies. (Granted, he's still a much,…

Did John Roderick write Electric Love? Oh that makes so much sense.

"Electric Love" is a legitimately great song. It's a weird offbeat take I could see someone like Stephen Merritt doing in 69 Love Songs.

Wow, apparently, some people put a lot of thought into CBS sitcoms. No one writing for them, but still.

It's also not "contradictory" to describe another in an unflattering light that may also be used to describe yourself. It's not like Welles wasn't self-aware and talk all the fucking time in time in interviews about the wasted potential in his later years. This just also happens to be an extremely accurate description…

@mrt:disqus Good god are you in for a treat. Podcasts don't get funnier than Mulaney's two CBB appearances.

Yeah I feel the same way, maybe because coming to Lubitsch through Trouble in Paradise and Heaven Can Wait, I can't help but miss rapid fire Raphaelson dialogue watching his silent-era stuff. I'll have to check out The Wildcat.

First time I watched this episode I thought "I Can't Stop My Leg" was a such a brilliantly silly piece of slight absurdist comedy, along the lines of Kauffman's record player stuff. So obviously I wanted to get more into Klein's stand-up, at which point I realized this was the big finish of his act, which took some of…

Yeah, the homophobic comments are out of line obviously, but it's so strange we expect actors of all people to react differently than anyone else would if someone accused us of acting really callous in a funeral in a national publication. Is anyone here pretending they wouldn't be absolutely furious to find a total…

I always took the "love the one your with" thing to be cheeky, maybe I wouldn't let myself believe he'd make such an insipid point earnestly. But that's besides the point that lines like "rose in a fisted glove" and "eagle flies with a dove" are terrible, terrible lyrics.

Ah, see and I'd give you shit for defending Third Eye Blind, taste sure can be infuriatingly subjective.

Shocking as it might be, I've listened to all of those things. Please take your condescending prescriptions elsewhere to someone who will appreciate what a special little snowflake you are for enjoying The Who and The Rolling Stones in their prime.

Same. I'll pretty shamelessly rock out to this one. He's not wrong, the lyrics are God awful, but how you gonna deny that hook?

Teddy Thompson does an incredible rendition of McGarrigle's "Saratoga Summer Song," I really think he's developed into one of the best singers working today:

I've unintentionally developed this theme song I reflexively sing whenever I'm flipping through and see this show on. Imagine that sing songy thing Patton Oswalt does in his stand up sometimes:

Yeah that was the first thing I noticed.

I'm just gonna double down on the douchenozzle-ness and point out that neither Marx Brothers nor Three Stooges are silent films. And technically neither is Modern Times.

Hahahaha, net-negative as a person. Fuck, Vanderslice really went for it. This was fantastic. I love him sort of doubling back over himself with "Is he a boorish oaf? Well yeah probably, but for different reasons entirely…"

Yeah it tends to be a pretty clear gender divide in my informal surveys, but I'm solidly with the ladies on this one.