Intelligence For Your Life is funnier than anything Comedy Central has put out in the past decade.

Even though I can't say I disagree with the cancellation, I really do think Comedy Central lacks something (leadership, a decent development department, money) that has kept it from becoming a more serious cable comedy competitor like FX or even IFC to a lesser extent. I know some shows have some heat (e.g. Key and…

Now more time for Comedy Central to show Tosh.0 reruns!

Thanks for the Invisible Woman, Mr. Fantastic bondage fantasies 1981.

I didn't say it would be good. I said I would understand it more/I think it would fit in better.

Thank you. I completely forgot that the Mr. Bergstrom episode (which I mentioned was the gag that lost me) was in The Kid is All Right (which I mentioned was the episode that lost me). Locking it in, The Kid is All Right.

I think I saw the Love Tester in the background of Moe's in a recent episode (the Christmas one?) and it just annoyed me. Stop throwing in references to the past because you think it appeases us; it does the exact opposite.

It made Chris Martin on When the Whistle Blows seem positively organic.

I think another major problem was that it was the first time (to my recollection) that The Simpsons upended the opening credits in such a fashion - replacing the classic theme with another song. And breaking tradition so sharply after nearly 20 years on the air will always raise eyebrows. And to do it to a Ke$ha song?…

Which episode was that?

I'd be fine with it if the lesson learned was that you can be friends with people with different political leanings. Considering how partisan-obsessed people are today, I think that's a fine moral and definitely something more classic Simpsonsy*. But IIRC the ending was that Lisa was correct about everything but the…

The problem I had with the Ke$ha opening was the same I had with the Lady Gaga episode and the American Idol judges episode (another break moment)- it's where The Simpsons become a shill for something "less" than The Simpsons like the celebrity du jour.

If we're talking individual gags, the Mr. Bergstrom return from a few episodes back was a huge fuck you that showed how writers lost it.

It's hard for me to know where The Simpsons officially broke me (I mean I still watch so how broken can I be), but it had to have been a Lisa episode. Lady Gaga one was a good choice. I'd also like to put in a vote for the one where she made a friend who was a *GASP TO END ALL GASPS* REPUBLICAN *PASS OUT*.

As someone who uses the "still has good gags" excuse, I disagree. The argument is not that the gags are as good as the old gags, but that the gags are decent. No show can live up to its Golden Age reputation, but I can sit in front of an episode and find it amusing or a couple of parts interesting. I actually think…

Whether viewer or reviewer, it's always interesting finding the episode in a long-running show that finally breaks you/someone else.

He could have been the Rutger Hauer role in True Blood, but then we wouldn't have gotten Rutger Hauer (underused as he was). Of course, Rutger Hauer vs. Malcolm McDowell would have been amazing.

I'm trying to think what other HBOSNS he'd be good one. He might be too "recognizable" for GoT, but without seeing anything from it, I'm going to go with Westworld. And now I'm wondering if I actually think he'd work in that or if it's simply because he played Metallo in STAS.

I remember in the final season E being so apathetic about The Murphy Group and treating potential clients with such little care while Scott Caan was out wheeling and dealing and being nice to people (one scene that really stood out to me was when Dice was being courted and Caan seemed legitimately in awe of being near…

Kevin Smith cast him in Tusk for its inevitable sequel, Manatee.