I met all of them at the taping I saw. Scott was the only one being a bit of a diva, but none of them were exactly what you'd call warm. I'm sure Dave's divorce did embitter him significantly, but I get the impression he's always been a bit dark. In that podcast with Joe Rogan where he talks about his divorce, they…

True story.

Dave too, frankly.

It gets used at least once a week around here.

Here's how good it is: I don't care about football. My sister doesn't care about football. My dad is actively allergic to all sports. All of us were utterly riveted by it. I don't know if my father kept watching without me, but I know my sister was going to look for the episodes she'd missed.

I saw them in that order, but yeah, once I saw the doc it was "the other way around." The AHS series was good, the ESPN series was fantastic.

Okay, you can't make references to paper nests in a horror-themed thread without me assuming Victor Tooms is back and posting on the AV Club.

I had never heard that, but he definitely enjoyed playing stand-out characters, didn't he?

Definitely a pop culture highlight of my life.

I have seen them live twice: once at an actual taping, and once during one of their reunion tours. During the taping we got to see Bruce lose his pen, the piece about how small Bruce is that ends with him being threatened by a cat, and the one where Dave and Kevin are trapped in a sketch with no ending. Shadowy Men…

The second season ranks up there with the classic Simpsons era, for me. So many goddamn gems.

One of my oldest friends and I still offer each other drinks with those as the two choices. We also call each other Francesca Fjore and Bruno Ponce-Jones.

That was Mark, and the Chicken Lady is awesome.

Is that like Jed Bartlet's secret plan to fight inflation?

Popeye's is the only fast food place that's ever given me food poisoning.

On the upside, it's the only item up there that looks remotely appealing. This piece is a great illustration of why food photography is a learned skill.

And it survives in part by not paying most of its writers.

*Expensive. Although also expansive. It is, in fact, two things.

I love food writing when it's done well, even though I wouldn't want to eat 90% of what's being written about.

I was about 20 feet away from him in this dorky outfit, and he was still the approximate temperature of the sun's surface:
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