The 'basic package' doesn't consist of your own choice of channels.  That's an incredibly crucial difference.  The 'basic package' is a set that THEY give to you, which may or may not include the channels you want.

Wow, really, I couldn't tell it was Econ 101 you were using to make your argument.  Thanks for setting me straight.  Anyway, the cable companies are going to have a problem in the next 10-15 years because there are a lot of people who, with the choice to either pay a lot or pay nothing, are choosing to pay nothing and…

This is a fair-ish point but doesn't recognize that the oligopoly of TV providers likely drives prices up with little to no benefit to the consumer.  I don't believe this is how it would work.  I believe people who don't watch sports at all would definitely pay less and people who watch sports would pay more, possibly…

It's got some okay jokes ('above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley' is Swartzwelder's absurdist genius at work), but I don't find Grimes himself funny, nor Homer's reaction to him. It'd be one thing if this were a masterful episode and has this divisive ending, but I think it's pretty light on good…

Eh, I think Mulholland Drive has metaphorical weirdness at the outskirts of the film - the homeless man holding the cube and so forth - but everything that happens in the film at least to our main characters seems to happen in the context of real life, albeit heightened.  Upstream Color is a much more disorienting…

Yeah, this.  Part of me wanted to see Upstream Color a second time, but it was such an unusual experience that I decided to wait.  I might never see it again - its mysteries are so obscure and any answers I arrive about them so subjective that I might just decide there are hundreds of other films worth my time.  But…

I'm aware of this site and categorically reject this interpretation - it's exactly what I was talking about.

Nice piece.

The great @UtilityLimb:twitter had a tweet about this:

I mean, I clicked on the article basically to see when and how that sketch got referenced, and now I'm tempted to write a syrupy ballad about just how long it took.

Damn, when the headline said science fiction and AMC, part of me was hoping that this was Ben Hargrove aka Ken Cosgrove's short stories adapted into a tv series.  Which I'd love to see anyway.

I really don't see how Jeselnik's delivery and style aren't unique.  Maybe I don't listen to enough comedy (I doubt this very much, but I do see a lot of comparisons to Tosh, who I've never seen), but I don't hear or see anyone doing quite what he does.  Nor do I really think he is doing Friars' Club material,…

'[Jeselnik] is another of these comedians without any sense of comic timing' - you apparently have some great comedic material, although you might lack timing.

I really don't understand the casting of Jeselnik as a 'shock comedian' - yes, his show is called the Jeselnik Offensive, and yes, he deals with taboo subjects, but I think that's putting his humor in a box with a bunch of other stuff that's totally unlike what he does.  After recovering from a Jeselnik punchline, I…

They were for me, and now these comment threads are missing all the wonderful things I was going to say about Jeselnik.

Comedians on Tough Crowd definitely had written material too, so I think take5's claim is fair.  There was more cross-talk and banter on Tough Crowd, but when Quinn would ask someone what they think about a particular topic, the response was usually scripted.

I genuinely thought it might be a remake of that movie.  But who would remake that and why?

Yours was way better, I just recited a line (that I couldn't believe I was the first to put up - what is avclub coming to when it can't identify the quote that goes with a single still frame of the Simpsons seasons 1-8)

I can think of at least two things wrong with that title.

I know I definitely watch part of it any time I see it's on TV.  It's one of those mid-budget movies for adults that feels like a dying breed these days.