As did Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. And my actual fucking life despite my being in the middle of nowhere. I don't understand how a look that bad got that ubiquitous.

I…did not pick up on that. I think partly because i assumed she was covering up something embarrassing, but couldn't come up with anything Ilana would actually consider embarrassing.

I loved it. It was great to see the magic of how totally insufferably awful Ilana is without the total commitment and sincerity.

Happy Endings was a good show but i'm not sure it's going to turn life itself around.

Well at least you've found a way to reach out to them and open a dialogue by assuming they don't have sex.

I'm now convinced there was a backdoor pilot for a reboot of this in Master of None. At the time it seemed like they were just making fun of the possibility, but now that i know netflix is in the TGIF revival business…

Probably due to the much smaller gap between when it went off the air and when it came back.

Not from the 80s, but i appreciate that Haley Joel Osment grew up super weird looking and then just owned it.

Even by that sole criterion, it's going to get eclipsed by the GG revival mentioned in the first paragraph of this review.

Saved by the Bell wasn't funny as you got older, but it sure was easy to masturbate to.

Yeah i don't think i had the critical facility for detecting that this was just sort of the imitation of a show. I too liked Home Improvement (and even Family Matters) and i can barely even remember this show's catchphrases, let alone anything else about it despite having watched it.

Yeah, my opinions of each individual revival vary some from others' but independent of them, on a strategic level, i think how you get more mileage out of recognizing the fact that WHAS was funny is:
You let David Wain write and direct more projects
You give the Stella company members more chances to improvise weird,…

I remember liking it as a child, but not for any actual qualities it had. It was just a thing that was on that i was allowed to watch that had joke cadences. It wasn't something i was actually passionate about like i dunno, Muppet Babies or Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (as you can see the bar wasn't…

I got offered drugs some (and even offered someone drugs once!) in college, but as noted it wasn't exactly a hard sell. I think another big disconnect was that it assumed everyone would drugs as seriously as the people organizing DARE. So when your room mate doesn't act like a side character in Walk Hard, you really…

That is a tall order.

I would love to have Big Mean Carl as a wingman.

But the alternative is having sex in a bed maintained by Nick Miller. You can see why it's such a dilemma.

She's doubling down on that.

During what i think of as the show's peak, i liked Nick most, then Jess and Schmidt in either order after those two, then Winston then Cece. Right now i think i'd call Winston the best character.

This doesn't quite fit the inventory since there's an author/character divide involved, but i think one of the biggest stereotype-busting experiences was learning Chuck Palahniuk was gay shortly after seeing Fight Club. Because even though it's often negative and satirical in its portrayal of masculinity, it still…