I agree. I do not find myself being troubled for ideological reasons by the R&J subplot. I would if I thought the show was endorsing "heteronormativity" by making the storyline that this guy thought he was exotic and gay, only to learn he is normal and straight. Rather, I think it begins by presenting his…

I'd love to have hanging in my office a few framed prints of those Froghammer ads.

"But Not Tonight" might be my favorite. What a great track—it is clearly/distinctively a DM song, and yet something lifts it out of that, too. I feel like it is a song even non-DM fans should enjoy.

not this episode, JP

That "I'll allow it" is so preposterous it only works in farce like "Intolerable Cruelty," where it is employed to hilarious effect. Here it is infuriating, and not in a way that engages the viewer in the show, revealing emotional investment; rather, it is infuriating because it punishes rather than rewards…

The Romeo & Juliet subplot give us two of the all-time great Darren Nichols lines: the first about the meaning of the exercise being immediately apparent to anyone with even a passing familiarity with Roland Barthes (who has a "passing familiarity" with that guy?) and the bit about living in a postmodern world and…

five lines, five laughs

Twin Falls Idaho was so good and heartbreaking that this article depresses me.

I wonder that, too—is the song catchy with a good hook, or does having it drilled into my brain through repeated play create the impression the song is catchy? Ans would I ever know the difference? I guess the familiar brings a certain comfort with it.

Growing up I loved WMMR and the Morning Zoo (John DeBella). I even had those morning zoo albums, likeAbbey Dirt Road and  "Zoo's Next" with them aping the original cover.

Maybe there's a cover version out there I have not heard yet, but to me nobody else sounds right singing a 'Mats song (although the Glen Campbell "Ghost on the Canvas" was interesting)

I thought I had read somewhere one of the creative forces—maybe a writer, maybe Paul Gross—hinting at Richard III.

The one with whom Geoffrey feuds after a condescending insult, but then convinces Henry Breedlove to return to the fold and play Mackers? That seems a dramatic jump in age and weight. Seven years between Geoffrey's breakdown and his return, then another year for the Hamlet season, before the MacBeth production? I am…

Sometimes you say such outrageous things! I wish I could quit you, Morrissey, but I still dig your songs.

"I like the sense of playfulness in Geoffrey’s flashbacks, like the way
that all of the imagined actors on stage with him peer down into the
grave he escaped into. It enhances the staginess of the conceit."

To build on your allusion, imagine if the season ended with a shot of Jeffrey circling the swans on a jetski with a topless Ellen riding on back.

Jon Pertwee's 3rd doctor used it on Doctor Who

I don't know, I get that there is nothing like Nirvana on that list, but I like most songs on there better than any Nirvana tracks. Plus, the Pixies were better, and they covered Head On very nicely.

Not to get equally ugly with a different target, but for me the nadir is RTD—farting aliens, melodrama, Jesus Yoda resurrected by the psychic friends network…

She's Kenny Powers' (Danny McBride) sister-in-law on Eastbound & Down.