Cultural Reference - That suggests that Leno has passion. Or thinks of other projects. He is getting something like 30 million a year. He doesn't give a fuck.

NBC also ordered a record 18 pilots for next season.

Jcrowemancer -

NBC is throwing dumptrucks full of money at him. Yes, he is rich as a sultan's mistress, but you can't entirely blame him for accepting an obscene amount of money to keep doing what he has been doing.

Holy shit… That was fucking beautiful…

The doll also punched in the security code inside the lab to open the door.

Oh for fuck sake. It is done. It is cancelled. The ratings are beyond bad. No one outside of this comments section watches it anymore. It was a miracle it got a second season to begin with. Stop waiting for ABC to announce something and just move the fuck on.

I am sad that I know this, but…
Switch "contractor" for "house painter" and Corrola's show is "Gary Unmarried"

According to Jim would be their Guernica.

Claire's Evidence
So Claire, having been with the Carnies for all of 12 hours (and loving their pancakes), sees a box marked "Primatech" in Samuel's trailer and decides he is up to something. She manages to break in to discover the box, in the trailer of a man that is actively seeking "specials", contains files on…

The Marlee Matlin moviephone joke was actually kind of clever. There was a concept behind it. You may not have found the joke funny (either time) but you could recognize the joke, right? It was a (relatively) clever way to make a "deaf people have a funny voice" joke. If you believe the Chinatown gag was about…

And somehow less gay.

I still vote for Miley Cyrus in "Chinatown" as the worst cutaway ever.

If we are talking "least funny" cutaway gag, I would definitely put that one up there, but at least it had some absurdity and weird juxtaposition. It was awful, but clearly there was a little more thought behind it.

Bet gag was the fake movie poster for the guy's book about Grampa having the star listed as "Hank Azaria" since he starred in Tuesdays with Morrie, which was the baseline joke for the whole episode. Very Meta-textual. I dug that joke more than the other 119.9 minutes of cartoons I watched tonight.

Worst Cutaway Joke Ever
It is a shame that we are taking the mantle from Family Guy to its offspring, but I am going to declare "Miley Cyrus in a remake of "Chinatown"" the worst cutaway joke in TV history.

Hmmm
I feel like having last year's funniest episode has hindered this show a bit. If it never lives up to "Racial Sensitivity" does that constitute a failure? I admit that this is not the best episode to make a defense of, but I loved the Phil/Lem plot.

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My Issue
It took me a while to figure out what had always bugged me about "It's a Wonderful Life." and I finally put my finger on it about two years ago: George never gets the fucking message.

His classics are classics, but he made a whole lot of drivel. I don't know that I have seen anything of his that is "bad" but a lot of his more mediocre movies run to hard into the schmaltz category. Really it was the performances that lifted his movies above the common drivel, and not all of his movies had Jimmy…