"Cougar Town" recycled a joke from "The Guilt Trip"? For shame! No wine, only Andre Cold Duck for a week!

I never cared for Jay Leno, but Frank Calliendo's impression of him on "Mad TV"—where all he does it tweet gibberish like a bird and giggle to himself—was the nail in the coffin. Nothing Leno has ever done or offered gave me a reason to stay up and watch him.

I was staying with friends while waiting for my apartment to open up when this episode aired, and we all watched it together (we were in our late teens/early 20's). The next night or so, I did mushrooms with the owner of the house, and was reduced to pretty much happy incoherence and saying "Um" a lot. When my other…

Trust me, the film is worth watching for the scene alone where a bunch of drag queens, transgendered people, and other "less thans" in the LGBT community meet with a bunch of preppy gay Log Cabin Republicans who are visibly un-thrilled at having to interact with "these people." Hoffman slowly, lovingly, smilingly…

You mean "Crash, Beta version"?

3-5% who will admit it (being gay) openly in a poll. Add another 2-3% who are closeted and won't admit it to the world, and another 2-3% who are in deep denial even to themselves, and resort to things like alcoholism etc. rather than admit it. Voila. There's your Kinsey 10%.

O'Connor is a spectacular musician, and I am ever grateful for the 3-4 CDs I have by her, not to mention her sterling covers and contributions to various compilations. ("Someday My Prince Will Come" to the creepy Disney CD homage "Stay Awake," "The Long Black Veil" with the Chieftains, and my personal favorite "You…

Oh man, I've never heard this album, but I loved that HBO special. Even Judy Tenuta, talking about why she loves to go hunting ("I love to wear safety orange!") is amusing, and Rita Rudner absolutely kills it, especially when talking about how she couldn't buy a new outfit unless she'd just come out of a…

A-. I laughed even harder that this episode than the lie-detector one two weeks ago. Annie's yelling "EVERYTHING" alone would've put it up into the solid B+ territory, but the bits from Nathan Fillion, Paget Brewster, Kumal Nanjiani, Brie Larson, the payoff with Abed and the sign language, the two "Labyrinth" jokes,…

So, almost 35 years later, it still holds up/holds true as a portrait of the NFL?

This is, without question, one of the most beautiful and haunting films I've ever seen. It should be spoken of in the same breath as "The 400 Blows" "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" and "My Life As A Dog" as one of the definitive portrayals of a young boy slowly fumbling his way towards adulthood. It requires a LOT of…

Go to cnn.com—they're out in force.

Just to throw some more matches and gas on the fire: never forget that a huge chunk of the South—the white part, anyways—traces its lineage back to the Scotch-Irish. These are proud, fierce, tough people who aren't afraid to start a fight and more than willing to jump into one already going on. (See: "Braveheart"—God…

Kate McKinnon is a goddess!

Track down "The Weavers: Wasn't That A Time!" for some of the really good stuff. He was truly a giant of American music, and his impact will be felt for millennia.

"He's leaving!….(Leavin'!)….On that midnight train to Georgia!…"

This episode gave me plenty of smiles and chuckles, but the biggest laugh-out-loud moment I had was the Shays listening to Jackie Collins in the car. There was something so completely wrong, yet so right, about that.

I disagree, I think she looks gorgeous—but she doesn't really look like Courtney Cox anymore, more like an entirely different person. (I think she had something done between her Springsteen video/"Misfits of Science"/"Family Ties" years, and when she started on "Friends"—even though "CT" called out the Springsteen…

I just wrote an entry a few up that comments on exactly this situation. We must be psychic brothers.

I think the vagaries of network scheduling have hurt it—episodes that should be season finales and the ends of arcs (Leslie and Ben's wedding, Leslie getting recalled, etc.) get shifted around because NBC needs more episodes or a longer season, so things seem to hit emotional climaxes and dramatic tie-offs, then…