@avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus man, you must be old, I was born in the 80s

i don't even remember him. I think Riggle is best as a side character anyways.

I think it's just absurd that Mindy was engaged to a minister. There's little evidence she's a god-fearing, religious in a practicing way, or even a good and thoughtful person. Ok, I'm not suggesting that all ministers have to be celibate until marriage, but I assume they date to marry and not for sexual conquests and…

you sound like Christine Barinski's stoic scientist mom character on Breaking Bad

Of course people will know who James Franco is in 2026, he'll have finally finished school (in his case, every single PhD program in the nation) and finally be "acting in movies" (in his case, not just acting in eat pray love and rise of planet of the apes but 10 movies a year) and will be the hottest star on the…

@avclub-42763705844bf5e2af4abd6c898f8dcb:disqus people can pay for their kids college educations once their youtube videos start getting into the tens of millions, but yes, that does take a whole lot of luck

Yes, that was unfortunate. I was also wondering why it didn't occur to the police or Daniel that Frye's life was in danger and put him in that safehouse or try to track him so they could get the guy.

I don't know if there was an easy way out, but I just wanted Gus to live. I might be old-fashioned in wishing for a happy ending, but it was heartbreaking. At least, I hope this gets the show some critical respectability

He's Michael Patrick O'Brien, right? I liked the weird names.

Yeah, but they had to bump everyone to regular because it would make for an awkward opening credit sequence if they had six cast members and nine featuring. Even Lorne admits that the featuring/regular division is pretty arbitrary and Finesse Mitchell and Jeff Richards both got let go after they were bumped up

I liked him as Gus the homeless guy with the tinfoil hat on Queen of Jordan

Isn't it ridiculously unoriginal to make up a Zooey Deschanel show when it already exists on SNL? I did not bother with that. I did love the manic pixie dream girl, and  got glimpses of her talent with drunk singing impressions w/hannah hart. It seemed like she could have stood to be more prolific if she graduated…

come on, was it really that different?

I'm pretty sure he was never offered a cast position, though it's possible Lorne's company produced his pilot

Well, the others have haircuts that they could take to a job interview and get a 9-5 job.

I thought it was funny thinking that any of the new guys who wanted to veto that in the writer's room wouldn't stand a chance and I'm 99.9% sure aren't invited to the final meeting where they pick the sketches, so they literally were forced to do that

Noel is distantly Tunisian or Mexican or something

Wasn't there already a Drunk Uncle character from like the early 2000's with some guy who only last a season or two (came on at the same year as Myers and Poehler?)

Her youtube videos are at noelkristi in case anyone's curious to see what she was doing before getting on SNL

Yeah, I wasn't sure that awkwardly interviewing people and even more awkwardly trying to kiss them necessarily made you a good fit for SNL, I was surprised he even did a good 1930's accent. I don't think he'll last a year. Cecily is dating him though (for some baffling reason) so that might have helped?