"Beloved" is a weird word to use here, but I'm inclined not to think too much of it because this is far and away the best thing I've read from Rabin in a looooong time.

Wow, this thread nailed it. You know a feature needs to be put out to pasture when the first commenter's answer is leagues better than any of the staff's.

A My Name Is Alex
Cannot wait. I saw that recently and it was baaaad—way worse than I remembered. Like a middle school one-act play, but with worse acting.

I checked out by the end of the title.

@Senator_Corleone: My go-to analogy with Cars is that it's the Pixar equivalent of Super Mario Sunshine—not bad, per se, but inarguably the least good in the canon. Well, for the next month or so, anyway.

I hope Kevin James gets down on his knees every day and thanks God that Chris Farley is dead, because without that, there's no way he's in the Sandler inner circle, and after King of Queens, maybe Hitch happens, and he just kind of falls off the face of the Planet Hollywood.

Am I going to be the first to call for it?
TV CLUB CLASSIC

or Frontier Psychiatrist!

Dire Straits could have kept going plenty strong after Brothers in Arms if they'd cut the subsequent world tour from two years down to one and not dragged their feet getting into the studio afterward. Instead, it was six years before On Every Street came out, which was enough time for Mark Knopfler to get into country…

Yeah, she's pretty hot, but my first thought was that she looked like a teenager in that photo.

A Jose Canseco bat? Tell me—you didn't pay money for this.

Triceratops oatmeal? Thank you.

Never forget how fast that thing gobbled batteries, maybe.

It looks like [insert Disney or Nickelodeon three-camera sitcom here].

I agree with Shore Patrol but in the opposite way, which is to say that I have a hard time listening to the Dead because I feel like everybody who came AFTER them did what they did much better. I'm not talking about Phish, 'cause that's apples 'n' oranges, but I'd much rather listen to a String Cheese Incident or…

Secret Success

Thoughts on the contestants
I found it fairly insulting how everyone sold Duff short. It's like when everyone is shocked that a comedian can do drama. Now that Ace of Cakes is over, is Duff going to have to flash his chef cred and tell everyone he used to be a line cook every time he competes in a cook-off or goes on…

I don't care about Chick-Fil-A's politics, but it is annoying that I only seem to crave food from there on Sundays.

Whether the allegations are true or not, I haven't been able to bring myself to eat at Taco Bell since the lawsuit. I didn't consciously make the decision to stop eating there; really, it was more like a switch being flipped. Regardless of the impetus, however, nothing but good can come of not eating at Taco Bell, so…

Wendy's burgers are terrible, but the quality of the chicken makes up for it.