"That Joan Didion is one piece of ACE. I know from experience dude, if you know what I mean."
"No you don't."
"Well, not me personally but a guy I know? Him and her GOT IT ON."
"No they didn't."
"No, no they didn't. But you could imagine what it'd be like if they did right? Everybody on? Good, great, GRAND, WONDERFUL!"

This is what cost him the '88 election…

@avclub-0304234e5dac07d007cf06c22b3f29c4:disqus maybe check out Frank Portman's King Dork, which is a takedown/sendup/wry appreciation of Catcher?

Awesome party guy Tom Hanks: No Oscars
Full of AIDS Tom Hanks: Oscar
Genial idiot Tom Hanks: Oscar

Wait, so was Anderson just ripping off King Missile? http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Your level of annoyingness in the 90s (and mine) does not diminish the hilariousness of that goat.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! LET @avclub-517f24c02e620d5a4dac1db388664a63:disqus HAVE THE ROTTING, SMELLING CORPSE! HAVE YOU NO DECENCY?!?!

I look at it as Gary pulling a successful Rorschach — some all-knowing douchebag comes in with a plan to fix Earth that involves massive amounts of collateral damage, only this time it's stopped. No compromise, even though it causes armageddon/apocalypse. But the ambivalence of whether or not this is a long-term…

It's been years but I remember the earlier episodes in particular being pessimistic/cynical about the future, "You gotta do what you gotta do" was more important to the show's world.

Great comment pushed to the next level by the last line.

They road pizzaed the shit out of Fry, it was impressive. I'm wondering if we never saw any moment-of-impact shots because of standards and practices or the difficulties in animating them. Er, purely as an academical exercise, not because I am a serial killer.

"Nice?" "OK?" You're sounding pretty Neutral there, buddy.

Obviously they were going to poke out Moon Guy's eye and it should have been obvious in retrospect they were going to poke out his other eye, but it wasn't, and I laughed like a goon. Suck on that, Moon Guy!

SPOILERS FOR A CERTAIN MOVIE INVOLVING BRITISH PEOPLE AND ICE CREAM

The resigned pause between the vampire's taking the call and the classic "vampire away!" exit was perfect. Nice job, animators.

I thought it was going to happen too and I'm glad it didn't. And re-watching the pilot right afterwards underlined why that worked, despite its stabs at cynicism the show has always been optimistic, looking toward the future. The pilot is its own reboot of Fry's life, the "Woohoo!" at the thought of his entire past…

I found myself nodding in agreement. If you can't fix it, you can at least let it know who's boss!

Eh, they're not the same without Pat Schmear.

*tears out hair*

Well, Mean Weener just blew my cover at work. Also, how was he not the third, "difficult" member of Ween?