One of the guys in his backing band had OD'd earlier this year. That's usually a bad sign.

Let's be honest: on a scale of 1 to 10, how surprised would you have been if the AV Club liked this?
How surprised would you have been if they gave it a C+ and said "eh, it's ok"?

I think you're forgetting a little show called Men Behaving Badly…

Eh, he was OK once the Ferrell / Shannon cast arrived. He, like everyone else, was abysmal in that 94-95 year.

I think part of the problem is he made six episodes for… NBC, maybe? and then they dumped it, Fox picked it up and wanted to air those six episodes, plus some more. So he had six episodes that were done in 2013 and then seven more shot in 2014, all before an actual audience had seen any of them. So it really was what…

That's probably the cocaine.

Deeply disappointed to find out this didn't star Horatio Sanz…

I think Thora Birch's parents derailed her career. She (at least as of 5 years ago or so) has an odd, co-dependent relationship with them.

I felt like it was a parody of Steve Ballmer, with the irrational enthusiasm. I could see Simpsons writers as the type of LA people who have had Clippers tickets for awhile.

What I don't get from the article is how Nintendo made money off of this. I know at one point there was a 900-number, but the guys interviewed just talk about a number with a Seattle area code. So was there also a freebie number?

And yet…

Didn't we all think Alison Brie would be the big break-out star from Community? What the hell happened?

Shouldn't Maya Rudolph be playing the Donatella Versace character?

At this point, I'm watching for the feats of puppeteering. When Zoot did the robot at the end, it was phenomenal.

So, we all assume this is the mystery "A-list actor" that the Sun was referring to last week?

No lie, the last three One Direction albums have been really solid if you were into turn-of-the-century British guitar pop: Travis, Robbie Williams, maybe a little Stereophonics.

It's like Josh Lucas said in his random roles: you get only so many chances to headline a movie, and those are flops, you're basically done. Happened to Kate Bosworth, happened to Josh Lucas, and, come to think of it, happened to D.B. Sweeney and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, too.

There's a story I heard about Bruce Willis, which may be true for De Niro, too: he's got a day rate, and it's high. I lot of these shitty nothing films only require him to be there 2 or 3 days. And for the privilege of getting Willis (or, perhaps, De Niro), you pay $100,000 per day.

Alright CBS fans, did anyone watch that new 2 Broke Girls last night? I figure after all the discussion yesterday, someone took one for the team and can let us know how it was.

I've always found that fascinating about Petty: high school kids in the '90s were REALLY into him. In the mid-90s, the two concerts that people at my high school were most excited about attending were Bush/Goo Goo Dolls/No Doubt, and Tom Petty. Seriously.