I'm being totally serious when I say that the only way to have improved the most recent cliffhanger would have been to add a 'plop' sound effect over Executive Producer Vince Gilligan.

On a side note, Nathan Barley is hilarious. It was lampooning hipsters long before it became cool… which is itself a fairly hipsterish statement. Also, Ben Whishaw plays a character named Pingu

I'm Peter File! I'm Peter File!!

I heard Neil Fox and some of the other celebrities who were made to deliver lines like "There is no scientific evidence for it, but it is a scientific fact," (paraphrased) complained afterwards that they'd been tricked. But honestly, how do you say something like that and not realise how ridiculous it is?

I just cannot wait to see what Hank does. I don't think I've been this excited for a TV showdown since… well, the last episode of Season 4.

I read that as Markie and instantly imagined a universe where 90s Mark Wahlberg had played Hank's wife instead. In purple parachute pants.

John C. McGinley is fantastic. This might be the best work he's ever done, at least until he plays J Jonah Jameson in the next Spider-Man movie in my mind.

I remember when I first saw Citizen Kane and The Godfather and The Shining and a bunch of Twilight Zone episodes and, more than anything, was struck by the number of Simpsons jokes I'd laughed at as a child that I hadn't understood were just references to these things. It's the backwards way of doing things. It's the…

It's less visceral, but the nail going into Homer's foot in the episode where he makes a deal with Flanders to stop swearing always horrified me.

This is less encouraging.

Oh make no mistake, that squelch is up there with the sound of the football hitting Moleman's groin as one of the funniest noises ever produced.

There was a truly SIIIIMS-worthy moment in this review that people seem to be ignoring. It's not "Teacher, lover, secret mother," it's "Teacher, mother, secret lover". I mean, both are funny, I guess, but…

It's weird that the song shows up in the first segment too, playing on the portable TV at the end. One of the many weird and magnificent decisions made in this episode's construction.

Epidemiology is up there though. If you haven't seen it, just watch it right now, and if you can try to experience it the way I first saw it; with absolutely no idea of what it was about, and with only a handful of episode's worth of prior knowledge of Community. It made it all the sweeter and cemented my love for the…

I remember being very upset by the fact that Homer pulls out Moe's heart with a corkscrew, now that you mention it.

When he growls "IN THEIR DREAMS" it's legitimately frightening. And how is it that Martin's death in that episode is both hilarious and horrifying?

@avclub-88884fa0b95961dea383025c31be8bf0:disqus Shit, yeah! I forgot about that but that really freaked me out as a kid. All the early Treehouse eps have loose framing devices but only that episode's one is actually as scary as the segments themselves. I think it's cus it's a very familiar idea at that age, having a…

I was way more scared of 'The Springfield Files', mostly because of that X Files theme which terrified me like nothing else at that age. Also the concept of running into a drugged-up Mr Burns in a forest in the middle of the night is just freaky. I also used to get creeped out by the ending of Who Shot Mr Burns Part…

That's just an incredible exchange.

It isn't, but it's here and it's news so we're talking about it. This man was relatively famous, so we knew much more about him and saw much more of him than we did of those 100 anonymous people, or the hundreds more who will die within the next few hours alone. That is why this is being talked about. Do you…