Hm. The only reason I would consider seeing this is for Tina Fey. And yet this review offers me almost no Fey-information beyond that yes, she was in the film (. Does she get any screen time? Is it an amusing role? Is she good in it? I demand answers!

I don't have time to ignore Sex Pwnther right now. Tity Boi, can you ignore Sex Pwnther for me?

If memory serves, she also is the only person to ever (though not often) laugh at his jokes.

Yeah, this show makes me think about how many cases there must be of rising politicians (or people in other positions of power) who bring along their loyal staff instead of replacing them with better talent. Amy seems like she could be a good example: someone who was top-notch at running a lower-rung operation who is…

Indeed! The VP is his liaison d'être.

Interesting, I hadn't thought of that. It makes a lot of sense. When my friendships have been mostly prescribed (college/grad school, inherited from childhood) they've been mostly straight, but since moving to sf and choosing a lot of friends from scratch (and not wanting to hang out at all with my boring coworkers),…

"I threw most of my favorite lines into the main review…"

It bemuses me when I read a criticism of a comedy that it doesn't have as much sentimentality as Parks & Rec, The Office, or Community. In my view the first two are getting/got worse and worse because of their increasing sweetness, and I could never get into the third at all in the first place.

Yeah, I still watch, but don't really like it anymore.

I think what really makes the line special is how she introduces the idea of Bart taking the potato for show & tell by saying, "…It's pretty big!"

How is no one mentioning the extremely deliberate homage to (/recreation of) the epic "one of us will get dragged through the ice-cold water without a suit and hopefully be resuscitated later" segment of Cameron's "Abyss"??

I always suspected/hoped that the robotic Simmons was not actually cut, but was invented just for the clip-show spectacular.

The kids could call you Bartholo-Jo!

_I_ was saying boo-kerns.

"You eat your fish heads, then we'll talk."

Cages are so old-fashioned. What if we could hold the children in place… with magnets?!

I'll do it for ten.

The delivery of this bit makes it among my favorite moments in Simpsons history:

Whenever I read these Rabin pieces, it always feels like he tried out a couple of different intros and then forgot to remove the extra ones (or anything else) during revision.

Hmm… I think you guys are using the word "richly" incorrectly.