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@Treymoney:disqus I don't mind the wildly inaccurate ones- Hot Saucerman's Ben Franklin is one of my favorites- but the Wodehouse one seemed to fall into an uneasy space of knowing a fair amount about him but not actually getting him. I may also just have too much attachment to Wodehouse for it to work.

It's a really consistent show- I was listening to the Marquis de Sade one at the dentist and I had to stop because I kept laughing while they had picks and drills and shit in my mouth.

Haha I enjoy that Phil Dyess-Nugent can't let one of these go by without pointlessly attacking something. That Veep slam was a drive-by worthy of Armond White

Misogyny (pron.: /mɪˈsɒdʒɪni/) is the hatred or dislike of women or girls. Misogyny can be manifested in numerous ways, including sexual discrimination, denigration of women, violence against women, and sexual objectification of women

i don't think that is the definition actually

Is he an Objectivist? He's a paranoid looney, surely, but I don't remember him expressing a lot of Randian ideas about capitalism or rape or whatever.

"So, what are you wearing?"
"Blue overcoat, fedora."
"You really stink at this game."
"…orange socks?"

Bob's Burgers in the first one where Bouchard seems like a person you could reasonably credit with the world of the show- Dr. Katz was very much based in the rhythms of Katz's own humor, and Home Movies is a Brendon Small production all the way. This one isn't dominated by any one voice enough for it to overshadow the

When's the last time you actually watched the second season of the Simpsons? Because it's uh not great, definitely not up to the mark of Bob's Burgers.

Oh, I did miss that, sorry.

Elysium is an older concept than Dante, and was more or less the best afterlife around for the Greeks (though it still kind of sucked.) I think the sign is just supposed to be a lie,

I thought that might be the case with CBB, but he was definitely in a TAH live show that Monday. Though now I think of it, it's almost certainly a different episode.

Also, he literally touched down from a 16 hour  or whatever flight from France on Sunday and was on Comedy Bang Bang, Thrilling Adventure Hour, and Doug Loves Movies within what, two days?

It kind of seems like you do, like it's literally hard to figure what you're trying to say at times because you don't use words in a comprehensible way

Yeah, that 'movies should be good' bias is really pervasive

Yeah, Bay reminds me of what happens sometimes when a session guitarist or something gets a band, and you realize that all this time they really just wanted to jerk off right into the microphone. Some people are better when they never get their way.

The Rock is good because everyone in it got to do whatever insane thing they felt was appropriate, so you have Harris, Cage, and Connery all acting in entirely different movies- Harris in a serious one about real human beings, Connery in a Bond sequel, and Cage in the kind of movie where sitting around naked and

Those are criticisms often applied to action movies, but the thing is a lot of those movies try to be better than that in some way- more intelligent, like the Bourne movies, less vulgar and less unpleasantness between spectacles, like the most recent Mission Impossible movie, or not at all like any of those things,

They say so outright in one of the commentaries

It helps that they can make jokes that a show that expects you to feel good at any point can't make- like, some of the funniest moments in the Sopranos are also the nastiest, and a TV comedy couldn't afford to go that dark. Breaking Bad does the same thing.