People who don't like About a Boy can get plonked in the head by an apple or big wheel of bread. That movie owns. Owns, I say!

Not great, Rob!

Coming of age in the mid 90s, when ER, Homicide, NYPD Blue, X-Files, The Practice, and Chicago Hope were the big shows, Hill Street Blue was always referred to as the grandaddy of the hour long workplace drama. It was to the above genre (which is still alive, barely, via The Good Wife) what The Sopranos is to the…

Satriale's Pork Store or Nuovo Vesuvio.

I have a message. Lieutenant Colonel… Lobot's Lambda-class T 4a shuttle… was shot down… over the Rethin Sea. It spun in … there were no survivors.

Nothing on Piven? It got five seasons and I think there were still good episodes in it, even without Cybill Shepherd. NBC was really shortsighted in canceling it.

The IMDB user community should have stopped at that Roy Rogers.

What *was* the deal with airplane food?

I guess he was red e to retire.

Anyone else reminded of the "blip" videos Radiohead used to promote Kid A? Now all we need is a giant, skeletal Roger Sterling striding across a snowy, animated landscape.

Make sure you kick the carousels before you buy one of those.

Richard Belzer is Detective Johannes Münch in Law & Ørder: Viking Quest.

No this album, no North Haverbrook Forty avatar. It's the real Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. A++

I was just glad to see The Beast from The Sandlot getting work.

Jeff Tweedy is Mike Brendanawicz in Parks and Recreation.

He sued the shit out of the McCallisters.

"We believe in the Central Powers, Tunney. The Central Powers. And tomorrow we come back and we cut off your access to North Atlantic shipping lanes."

You rang?

ER was the first adult TV drama I ever cared about, read recaps of, etc. It was a staple of my middle school and high school years, especially seasons 3-8 (grades 6-11). Fiction can seem more real than real life when you're that age. And while the set-up is obviously very dramatic, there's a material threadbareness…

I read that as "Simon Pegg's new movie The A.V. Club," so now I am disappointed and possibly not as literate as I thought.