No, he's helping the guy back up the pie truck.

"Liam Neeson plays Duck Hunt."

Richard Thompson pick should (obviously) be "Withered and Died."

Lucinda Williams, "2 Cool 2 Be 4-Gotten"
Saxon, "Denim and Leather"

Third time is, you're fired.

I don't judge them for trying to make a buck (no different from me or anyone else).  It was just a bummer to see the Pixies becoming, essentially, a Pixies cover band.

This is pretty obvious from that loudquietloud movie.  Funny how the fans treat the reunion as a dream come true, while the Pixies clearly can't stand each other, have nothing new to say musically, and are reuniting for rather cynical reasons.

YOU FUCKING DIE!!!

First time as tragedy, second time as farce.

That example was dumb, ignore it.  Listen to the dildo, he seems to know what he's talking about.

staircaseghost, I think that the word "reduce" is throwing you off.  We're not subtracting here, we're dividing (positive divided by positive)…so we can't end up with a negative number.  If my boss reduced my pay by 50,000,000,000,000,000%, I'd still get paid something (a tiny fraction of a penny).

I'll pass…saving up for a Death Star.

Speaking of sneaky Fox editing tricks…in one episode, Ramsey arrives at the restaurant and freaks out because the door is locked and no one's there to greet him.  But clearly, his crew is inside the restaurant filming those images of him throwing his tantrum.  He must be able to see the camera as he peers through the…

By cheap bastard tactics, I just meant: doing something that might seem at first glance to be cheating (because it makes the game really, really easy…you're sidestepping the challenge that the game presents to you), but is actually not cheating (in fact, it's just being clever, using strategy, as you said).
 
Another…

On the US version, it's not always clear to me whether the restaurant owners are truly hopeless fuck-ups, or if the producers are manipulating things to make them look much more clueless than they are.  E.g., when Ramsey finds one dirty plate in the kitchen and throws a tantrum, we can't tell whether it's just the one…

On the subject of video games, I would make a moral distinction between true cheating and cheap bastard tactics.  It's lame to use a code to hack into a game to give yourself invulnerability.  Such cheating makes the game pointless: why bother with the game if nothing can hurt you?  A cheap bastard move would be…

And every time, Ramsey says something like, "in all my years of cooking, I have never, ever, ever, ever tasted risotto this bad."  (Yes you did, last week!)

It's not a competition, but I'm always amazed how on Kitchen Nightmares, the restauranteurs always make the same mistakes that drive Ramsey crazy, week after week.  They know he's coming and should know his pet peeves by now, and yet they serve him soup from a can, or frozen rather than fresh produce, don't bother…

Reminds me of when I'd play Mortal Kombat or Street Fighter back in the day.  I only played casually and didn't know the game's secrets…so there was always the smart-assed kid who'd kick my ass in two seconds, because he had memorized all the sequences of moves.  That kid would be a spoilsport, since he's making the…

Given his tendency toward crazy jealousy/rivalry with his peers, I worry that these constant "not as good as Louie" reviews might push Maron over the edge.