I hate McBryer's performance; it's so audience insultingly broad. His mugging is atrocious; he smiles so hard it looks like he's going to pull the muscles in his face. I was on the fence about 30 Rock but he tipped the scales for tuning out. Terrible fucking character.

Dawn wasn't meant to simply agitate, her mysterious introduction showed that she was clearly intended to confound and mystify viewer expectations. Which is exactly what an annoying little sibling can to do a teenager desperate to shed the trappings of adolescence while also wary of becoming an adult.

JJ's SNL was bad, but to say it was was the worst ever displays a very bad sense of recall. SNL has laid so many ghastly shit piles over the years, that is not a statement to be made lightly.

Peggy is exactly why I stopped watching King of the Hill. Her ravenous need for attention and constant boasting were insufferable, and worst of all, not funny. It wouldn't have diminished Hank's core of decency one bit if she came home to find the locks changed and her blouses, make-up, and mom jeans strewn across…

Wow, a lot of Jonah Hill hatred on this board. I'm not a huge fan or anything, but the guy clearly has talent. You think Apatow puts him in project after project for, what, sexual favors? I was among those who found him obnoxious in Superbad, but that was partly the writing. He was terrific in GHttGreek, and…

As I think about it I guess you need someone surlier than Paul Rudd to play Bill Murray. Joaquin Phoenix, maybe? Or maybe Casey Affleck.

I buy Hader as Ackroyd, that's a good call. I always thought Ike Barinholtz of Mad TV had an Ackroyd quality also.

After seeing Get Him To the Greek, which I loved, I was thinking Jonah Hill could be good in Confederacy of Dunces. Don't know what kind of movie it could make. I think Michelle Gondry would be an interesting director for it, but then I've been underwhelmed with his movies after Eternal Sunshine.

Jim Belushi struggles even to play Jim Belushi. Thankfully he's too old so it won't happen.

I thought the first season was passable, but by the second season they seemed to have decided the show would never develop into something of any substance or even jus notable writing craft beyond Ari's admittedly sharp verbal assaults.

Posting on these threads on iPhone is slow and glitchy, hence the mistake above. Hey AVC, when are you going to get a "preview post" function? Much less professional boards have them.

Maybe not so much at big R n R show where there were seats and not enough room, but teens were dang pairing up at dances (never heard of a sock hop?) and in juke joints.

Could be, but a small correction from a Phil Collins fan/apologist: The White Knights song by Collins was a Duet called "Separate Lives." I don't know if it was even nominated, but Lionel Ritchie's "Say You Say Me" from the same film was. "Take a look at me now" is a lyric from "Against All Odds," title of both song…

I can't seem to get over my mystification that so few people dance at rock shows of any type.

Unless I'm mistaken on the time line, I believe the same thing happened with Phil Collins the year before with "Against All Odds" from the film of the same name. He was eager to perform at the Oscars but, they had Broadway actress/dancer Ann Reinking (also of the movie All That Jazz) sing it instead. Her dancing was…

I thought Mean Girls was funnier when it was called Heathers Plus Every John Hughes Teen Movie Combined. Although it was spruced up by having a ton of obtrusive, unnecessary and flatly written narrative voice over.

She can't be that much of a slut because even PRINCE hasn't fucked her. He wrote Manic Monday for The Bangles as a sort of overture to getting cozy with Hoffs, but she turned him down.

Agreed that Decaprio doesn't carry the necessary worldliness in Aviator. I thought. He was miscast for that reason in Titanic - better a Matthew McCaughnahey or else like that.

Sometimes, despite however unfair, I am so distracted by how badly an actor is aging that I can't let it go. Ed O'neil looks beyond schlubby now, he's like a Hunan potato.

I like the cast too, but after the mother Focking Meet the Parents and Autin Powers sequels (including that Guru wankfest) Jay Roach is just behind Norah Ephron as a maker of comedies I'd rather gouge my own eyes out than have to see.