I mean, it's the first thing that someone will mention about this movie - brilliance is a strong word, but I don't think it has persisted because it's a non-joke.  Maybe it's an age problem - people like me who saw this movie at age 13-14 on cable with 0 expectations have a high opinion of it.

Whoa whoa whoa - let's calm down here.

I just saw it for the first time recently and oh my god is it brilliant in its commitment to dumbness.  The middle third of the movie is awful, but the rest is pure ham and cheese goodness.

Couldn't you get a computer with a triangular screen that has Skype?  It doesn't take a big foreheaded guy to figure that out.

Season 2 of Treme was really good, but I cannot recommend that show to anyone.  It requires a ton of patience, and even I felt like watching it was an obligation.

No mention of the oranges in Ronnie's stall or the fact that the other jockey had orange juice before he passed out?  I am so tired of the 'oranges signify death' bullshit - retire this symbol, please.

that is one of my all time favorite simpsons bits - way better than the naked lunch gag.  it's especially good because it works as a gag in the scene and it goes along with the chanting of the name 'bart'.

Graham is like Maron's narcissism pushed over the edge.  Graham is really upset that his story about his suicide ended up in a book, but his telling of the whole incident probably makes him look far worse.  One thing that made me uncomfortable was him referring to 'the movie' and 'the book', as if Maron or listeners…

You almost certainly are.  I respect the first four episodes for being so ridiculously slow-paced, but 'purity of conception and execution' doesn't equal 'funny' or 'entertaining'.

I love that "Let's see how he does up there without all the assistance" line - I've used it a few times, but it's rarely appreciated.

It is one of my favorite Seinfeld jokes when the Vermont girlfriend won't tell him what perfume she's wearing - I won't call it gut-busting by any stretch but there's something very essential about the series in that line.

That George montage kills me.  The end of the episode regarding George is, as Sims notes, rather broad, but everything about him up to there is very funny.

Maybe this is a syndication problem, but I always thought it just referred to his blandness.  I'm not sure that vegetable lasagna is bland, but I thought it funny for that reason.  Yours makes more sense and is therefore less funny.

It wasn't a cop out at all.  What in the world is the film's message if Paul actually shoots him?  That he's a complete psycho and that nothing he's done in the film relates to anything in the real world.

I didn't really like this movie very much, but holy shit is that ending amazing.  Totally didn't see it coming and generated a laugh from me on a level that most film comedies never even attempt.

You must be, because Phillips' movies are of the lowest brow possible.  The women are shrews or sex objects, and the males fall largely between the bro and the dude, with the key exception being the nerd.  The only thing possibly worse than being a male and being a nerd is getting married and thereby turning in both…

I think it's true of great comedians, but especially of someone like Patrice, who clearly does tons of crowdwork.  The opening to this album is pretty much a mess because it's all crowdwork.

Some very good gamblers are prone to massive tilt/poor play at things that aren't 'their game'.  One of my favorite details was the vacuuming in the first poker scene - anyone who's spent too much time in a casino has been there when they're vacuuming the floors, it happens at like 5 am and it's generally a horrible…

The only reason why people are calling it gratuitous is because all of the other major HBO shows feature nudity, often to excess.  I was thinking to myself halfway through, 'Wow, will HBO really have a tentpole drama that doesn't have nudity in its first two episodes?  When will we have a scene that's unnecessarily in…

I don't know if Oz is up there with television's best, but I do know that holy shit that show was fun for an incredibly depressing look at violent criminals.  I watched the whole series on DVD in 2006; I'm not sure, after having seen all the great serialized dramas that have come since, most of them having some mix of…