He's clearly the Schwimmer of the group, but he's far, far more likeable and watchable for me than Schwimmer was.

I'm legitimately curious what makes Moneyball a male-driven A League of their Own outside of them both involving, on some level, baseball. Show me those parallels!

Not only did we get Heartbreak Ridge, we got my camp counselor saying we were watching Heartbreak Ridge, when he was actually showing us Pulp Fiction despite it being an R-rated film.

I would totally watch a Law and Order show that featured Vin Diesel, in character as Dominick Toretto, as the district attorney. The sheer amount of car metaphors in closing arguments, nonsensical street fight metaphors during negotiations, and Rock cameos would make it must watch television.

That one came from Conan O'Brien's production company. I have to think that was someone's joke pitch that somehow took on a life of its own.

The irony is that Reagan actually deserves some credit—for basically ignoring the hawks that now scramble to justify his defense spending after trashing him during his second term, and instead working with Gorbachev on arms control and thus strengthening his hand to pursue reform against the hard liners and the hawks.

The '70s oil revenue was a cushion that let everything skate along, even as the system was rotting. So pulling the rug out from under it in the 80s just exposed what was already failing in time for Gorby to scramble to fix it all before it fell apart anyway.

Yeah, but the way they did it was very command economy/communistic. The entire complex was expected to increase output by at least 3% annually, no matter how much had already been produced in order to keep production warm for long term war mobilization (something relevant to 1941, but not to pretty much the entire…

You know who else proved the Holocaust happened, hmmmm?

Yeah. Part of the problem was, again, communism didn't work, and the communist military-industrial complex didn't work. You had the Russians spending tons and tons of money on making small arms stuff, tanks, guns, etc. that they already had more than enough of, because that's what generals wanted.

I did love how that season had the time warp where both Sisto and Roach had origin episodes where their first case with the new partner happened while the other was already well established in their job.

Now there's an inventory: Most nonsensical TV character job changes. Even Seymour Skinner going from small town principal to legman to a New Orleans PI made more sense.

"Jeremy Sisto and Anthony Anderson as one of the least compelling detective teams in the show’s history"

One of my college dorm rooms was 7 stories up above a dumpster. Whenever I wanted to trash some food, I tested my aim. If it hit it was great. If it missed, it was glorious.

My first time really following Letterman was during the years when, for whatever reason, the show was syndicated to radio to air at 11:30. There was nothing better to listen to than "Will it Float?"

"No thank you." - The Dodgers

Yeah. Whedon wouldn't kill off Coulson. Coulson's a man.

"You're welcome, history. Again." - S. Beckett

Star Trek: Generations

There are sections of the A.V. Club Commentariat still disappointed you didn't continue on to review Star Trek: The Pepsi Generation, Zack.