Like when writers from the Simpsons and King of the Hill reportedly sent flowers to Trey & Matt after the episodes ripping on the banality of Family Guy ("Doing the lord's work"), I too feel like I should send along a bouquet as a resident of Berkeley, California. Five+ years ago people just thought this kind of…

Even though this was the best episode of the series thus far, please discourage everyone else from watching it: Gretchen in her climatic rant told far too many secrets about writers, dispelling much of the aura & mystique.

Willow is one of the first movies I remember seeing as a child in the theaters, and being so ridiculously pumped up by certain scenes. Like when Madmardigan finally gets his hands on a sword and flawlessly carves his way through five of General Kael's soldiers and Willow earnestly exclaiming "You ARE great!"

I liked the forceful statement of no black servant roles, and would like to add that In a lot of places in New England (where the film is to be set), be it rural areas or upper crust One Percent parties, there just straight up aren't any people of color.

When the HBO guy was talking about the car flip stunt and mentioned that they didn't want a "Sarah incident on the railroad tracks" with no further context, I had to google that and ugh.

The joke is that catholic priests do weird singing things from time to time during mass, mostly out of nowhere. Chris D'Elia also has a great bit on this.

I think one has to be raised catholic to fully appreciate how ridiculous yet authentic Father Maxi's religious chant is. See also this old gem:
Maxi: [sung] "Leeeet's go!"
[half of congregation singing off key] "Let's go."
"Broncos!"

I defend Rocky V on the merits of the badass street fight at the end… and that's about it.

Next to none in a very observable ridiculously PC way. Also, the kid actors all had negative charisma scores, leading many to wonder aloud what casting director got to sleep with so many talentless Hollywood-moms.

I liked this episode a lot more than last week's. Call me a sucker for plot and storyline development and 75% less weird for the sake of weird "deep" existential mysteries that will never be solved or hinted at ever again. (The show gave up all it's free passes and then some last season)
Side note: that auction…

I think the chain smoking was more Bill Hicks, but then as @GwG:disqus put it, it was even more a Denis Leary parody: a comedian who has a hollow vapid "edgy" persona (based on 80% plus on ripping off other comedians' jokes and premises) that is looking to sell out as soon as possible. I am now going to watch the…

Very well put. And for the record, Denis Leary is *still* ripping off Bill Hicks material near-verbatim 22 years later.

I'm fine with it being two things in this instance, but Carlin didn't chain smoke on stage like Hicks (and Krusty) did.

As someone who thinks this Krusty's persona was a homage to Bill Hicks, I find it quite funny that Jay Leno was a guest star on this show, as Hicks had an incredibly mean-spirited (IE accurate and hilarious) take on once edgy becomes corporate hack comedian Leno's career.

Some people like the reviewer think Krusty's new comic persona was a George Carlin-like performance. I think it was more of a Bill Hicks homage. Thoughts?

You do know that Spaceballs isn't Star Wars as much as it is "It Happened One Night" in space, right?

"Your Majesty, you look like the piss boy!"
"And you look like a bucket of shit!"

For many of us of a certain age, seeing Spaceballs was like the scene in South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut where the kids sneak in to see Asses of Fire. It taught how to swear, and that swearing is fucking hilarious. Also: "We ain't found shit!"

Just how many Hook diatribes do you go on, let's say, on a weekly basis?

Because all the praise for this show is so fucking groundbreaking and creative?