They showed the Reb Brown movies on Sci Fi too, and I hadn't seen them since they first aired in '79. My 9-year old self thought they were pretty cool. My 41-year old self wished MST3k was still around because ho boy. Reb Brown may have given the worst yet funniest acting performance ever.

Lot of good stuff in this episode
The way they had to basically make up a con on the fly on the way to the corporation's headquarters was interesting and well done I thought. Nate and Parker improvising themselves into being tour guides for schoolkids to get inside the building was pretty neat. I figured the 'smart…

But Mbs doing color commentary would consist solely of "I actually thought it was pretty decent" occasionally altered as "Come on, guys, it wasn't that bad. Some of it was really good!"

I was also going to say no at first, but Christina Hendricks is in it so something something masturbate furiously.

Thank you, Monocle, thank you.

So. THIS may not be the best place to mention that I actually LIKED the Chess soundtrack. But I also thought the music from Cats totally fucking sucked donkeys, so maybe it's just a differing tastes sort of thing.

Yep, this is it for me, too. I was also 7 in '77. The first 30 seconds alone blew my tiny little mind.

He melds in nicely, though. He mostly shows up, says some things that help the plot move along, and leaves again. Painless.

Very good, Benny; very good. I'm imagining a female vocalist with a gravely voice who's coming down off a cocaine binge being forcefed 3 or 4 downers, and then singing:

I like Kirsten Dunst, but my god "Snaggle-Tooth McWetboobs" is awesome.

Pigeon Sex
"During a Rourke-Fox sex scene involving Fox in full-on bird-girl mode, I came to suspect that Glazer has long wanted to fuck a parrot but had to Trojan-horse his sick desires into a socially accepted form."

Not sure if Aniston is the breakout because she's the hottest of the Friends and was in The Good Girl. Ask 100 people on the street if they've heard of The Good Girl and they'll ask if you mean Taylor Swift. And being hotter than Courtney Cox and Lisa Kudrow is definitely something, but I dunno if it's enough to make…

Go chubs! Only… 969 to go.

Guess I should've watched Covert Affairs then, 'cause it's always bothered me as well. It's just so damn unrealistic.

Darn straight, Kenny, and ho boy is anyone else still cleaning their drool off the floor? Lena Heady is dreeeeamy.

I think he's referring to the one that's had a starring role in a film during the past decade.

I immediately thought "Duran Duran" but that raises a question: do you include live concert albums in the five? They're not reviewed using the same criteria as a review of an album containing all new material. Because "Arena" was rather meh, but discounting that one you end up with "Duran Duran," "Rio," "Seven and…

WB?
You'd think Warner Brothers would jump all over this—they need another franchise now that Harry Potter is done and Dark Knight Rises is only a year away.

Absolutely. Sean, this was fantastic.

That's a good point, LBC; he *does* owe Barry one (or two or four), so he would've helped. But grumbled, definitely.