Could be worse. He could have been Dave Parker and the Rumour.

Well, if you started getting too old for your job in your mid-30s, and half the people in your profession worked only 3-5 years or so (if they even found employment at all), and if your boss was making billions of dollars…

"Mr. Worff"? You mean Todd VanDerWorff?

I just hope that this season, now that they have Ginsberg hired as a full-scale cast member, they can start doing the character justice.

And that's also something that the show has been fairly explicit about since Season 1.

I don't get it. Do you think you're saying something clever here? Something profound?

Do all of these Mad Men cuts have to end with someone vomiting?

I'd like to congratulate Hannibal Buress for finally getting his show on the air, even if he had to take a supporting role to some guy named Hugh.

Fair enough. As someone who doesn't care for the show, maybe I'm underestimating its broad appeal. (The fact does remain, though, that in order to get to stripped syndication, they'd need to produce a bare minimum of 31 more episodes, which is an awful lot to swallow if it's a loss leader. Though then again, I could…

As I said, it's a secondary concern. I'm not saying there's no possibility of syndication, but if USA picks it up, the MAIN concern is going to be whether it'll get good ratings for USA now.

Really? I can't turn my computer on without running into yet another article about "Treme."

That's her fault if so. Her pre-SNL stuff was positively awash in broad characters of that sort.

I'd definitely be up for a John Mulaney/Mae Whitman series.

57 is two (network) seasons from syndication. They're not that close — they're not even 2/3 of the way there. If they were at 70-80, that's when you start talking about the network trying to eke out those last few episodes… at 57, it's a secondary concern at best. They're not going to produce a season and a half of TV…

Wait — why would it go from a lower-rated network to a higher-rated network?

Finally, someone makes a show about Garrett.

Jon Dore's really funny. Joe Wengert, not pictured above, is also really funny. I'm not sure why this is a TV show, but good for them for getting some paychecks.

How to Not Trust the B_____ (In Apartment 23)

I can almost see this, but a "more grounded" version of "It's Always Sunny" (and I wouldn't classify the first season that way) would be a repellent mess. The only reason it works as comedy is that there's no way to take the characters and plots as representing real people or situations.

The Coen Brothers love their howling fat men… and yet I can't even get an audition.