I've never, to my knowledge, heard Tina Fey exclaim a weary "Heavens to murgatroid!" but I bet she could do it in just the right way to make me laugh for 5 minutes straight.

Different sins get you different punishments.  Dante wrote a whole epic poem about it — the least you could do is read it, since he went to all that trouble.

Write like Hemingway: standing and nude.

Liam Neeson played the character fucking brilliantly.  At the beginning, he's a completely amoral playboy whose relationship with the truth is…flexible.  That early scene where he's a nobody in the restaurant, but over the course of the evening makes himself the most indispensable man in the 3rd Reich was…

I have a Jewish friend who is fluent in German and lived in Munich for a couple of years.  He delights in doing an "SS voice."  I don't speak anything in German, so I have no idea what vile, inhuman things he might be saying when he does that.  Of course, he could also be talking about something like a teddy bear…

Also: "Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List studiously avoids coloring outside the lines."

"…that inspired my friends and I to bat around the phrase…"

The Beatles were pretty big, too — bigger than you-know-who.

@avclub-f2b489efd726db529335e31c83509c73:disqus , yeah, it only says we have the right to pursue happiness:

I love it!

@avclub-6b8aa777ed70e7f15a45947a0f0c5986:disqus , I know what you mean about the negatives outweighing the positives.  It's a balance everyone has to calculate for themselves.  I'm a Catholic, so I've been calculating and recalculating that balance a lot in the last decade.  To be completely honest, the role of art in…

I don't remember "The 5 Wood," and only remember the misunderstanding over the word "survivor" in "The Survivor" (which is really the kind of joke only Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld seem willing to make — I don't think even Mel Brooks has ever made jokes that were irreverent about the Holocaust).  Anyway, "The Car…

My pick would have been Curb Your Enthusiasm, which suffered quite a bit during the season where Larry was in The Producers — though even that season was somewhat redeemed by its finale.  

That finale is up there with Newhart and Blackadder Goes Fourth in the all-time-greats category.

I only called the Jimmy Smits election storyline a great one retroactively.  Before 2008, I liked it well enough, but repeatedly called it liberal wish-fulfillment.  Then we went and made some history in the real world, and suddenly that storyline looked prescient.

Hey, Furio wasn't the first unavailable man she was attracted to (remember the priest in the first season?).  I remember not really being enthralled by Carmella's story, but being totally engrossed in Edie Falco's performance in the last episode, where she and Tony go at it, and you think he's going to beat her, and…

I think I've told this story before, but it just keeps making me laugh.  I was talking with Malinger-Her one day recently about ridiculous action movies that we like, and I mentioned how Jason Statham was pretty bad-ass, at least in The Transporter, which is, I think, all I've seen him in.  She saw that movie with me,…

It never got consistently better, but it certainly rose from the depths that brought us the elf jockeys and dead alligators.  Since then, it has only occasionally soared to any heights that put it in comparison with the Golden Age (I'm thinking especially of the one where Homer and Bart become Catholic, and the one…

My indicator for whether a season is overall good or bad is the Lisa-centric episodes.  If the Lisa episodes are good, then the season overall is usually good; if the Lisa episodes are bad, then the season overall is usually bad.

And that was $30 million in 1987 money.  That's worth $61 million in 2013!