Even more fun: let's try to parse, precisely, when Archer is set!  I mean, they're fighting the KGB, but they have cell phones.  Since every work of fiction has to relate to a real and factual time and place, how are we supposed to reconcile this?

"Hey, my vulva is as smooth as a veal cutlet!" is still my single favorite line in the show, so I was happy for the callback.

Zorro — Zorro! —
the fox so cunning and free.
Zorro — Zorro! —
who makes the sign of the [zed].

Did anyone notice Pam drinking a can of whatever West Virginia beer it was (Red something?) that Ray's brother had a sign of hanging on his wall down in the holler? This was at Archer's place, I think. I guess Archer brought some back from his mission to WV.

@avclub-88321772d0844dd947d91346f9561910:disqus : my all-time favorite Lisa-episode bit of concision: "'Brevity is…wit.'"

I especially like the  "flavor sauce" on the "crunch patties"!

We've been making garbanzos in the crock pot for years, only using canned for things like hummus when there were no dried ones in the pantry.  So this was the first can of garbanzos I'd eaten more-or-less unadulterated in probably 2 years, and I was amazed at the difference in texture and taste.  They were mushier,…

@avclub-8288999e960ebe6aca280a2c31f5645b:disqus , my mother-in-law goes to a Church of Christ — the singing-without-music kind of place.  Sounds like your church, because the communion service was the same: trays full of matzoh, and a wheel-rim looking thing passed around with little plastic thimbles full of grape…

That doesn't answer my question, though.  I'm thinking about starting a nonprofit group dedicated to taking the McRib™ to all the regions of the world that are without it, and it would help me out a lot if I could find out whether or not Britain has ever heard the good news.

How would you like five across yo' lip [shakes fist unconvincingly menacingly]?

That would be a good list.  Carlin should definitely be on it, because of Thomas and Friends.  Richard Pryor, too, who had a live-action Saturday morning show back in the mid-1980s called Pryor's Place (which totally sounds like some middle-brow, not-so-funny British sit-com about the not-so-wacky doings at a…

That sounds like a great club.  Do you meet up and have a big pot luck, or is a different small group in charge of feeding the large group each time?  How often do you meet?

Better Than Bouillon is awesome!  It's more solid than a concentrated stock, but it's not as dry as, say, Vegemite.  And it's definitely not dry and powdery like bouillon.  The consistency is more like a really, really too-thick sauce. 

Some will.  Others, not so much.  Getting my son baptized Catholic has been an ordeal by bureaucracy.  According to my mother, my baptism and even hers were equally frustrating experiences.  In 2013, when the Catholic Church encounters someone who's really eager to baptize his son, and the boy's non-Catholic wife is…

I about plotzed when I went to my mother-in-law's Evangelical church in southeastern Oklahoma for the first time, and they passed around communion, which consisted of a plate full of matzoh.  Now, these fine people might have been more worldly and tolerant than I gave them credit for, but it did raise all kinds of…

I had some egg drop soup recently that was so thick it looked like Karo syrup — but it wasn't sweet at all.  I don't even want to know what they did to get that thickness, but I'm sure it was the addition of something with a name I couldn't pronounce correctly on the first try.  Of course, maybe it was just guar gum…

Isn't that Maggi flavor enhancer stuff basically soy sauce?

That's a shame.  Lentils have always been very good to me.  I'll have a talk with them, see if I can find out what's eating them…

When we lived in Chicago, Malinger-Her would look at all the 20-somethings (a group we had just barely aged out of) lined up at Chipotle after work, obviously getting take-out dinner for the evening, and remark that it reminded her of a college cafeteria.

That is a downside to the mustache.  It also retains flavors from what you've eaten, especially things that are greasy.  My biggest O.C. thing is needing to wash my mouth, as well as my hands, after a meal, and that's why I damn to hell anyone who decides that a blow-dryer is acceptable for public rest rooms.  I need…