Uh, no, both have existed pretty much since way before I was born and continue today. How old are you? Because the earliest sets with instructions came around in the early sixties after the foundation of the Futura work group.

Uh, they've been doing dogs that way for ages. They do basically all animals similarly and have for years, barring the anthropomorphic ones.

Yeah. It's really hard to get good sketch unless it's on a non-for-profit network like BBC Two or Radio 4, because they've got mandates and less ratings pressure. But a lot of that stuff, even good stuff like Souvenir Programme, just feels like cod Python.

If only people were still down with bad drag and blacking up…

Sketch comedy is way more expensive than non-sketch material unless you do it INCREDIBLY cheaply— and it's much harder to gain and retain a fanbase than with a sitcom.

1998. They all run on GRIME.

I think trailer is kind of a misnomer since, barring the Casablanca one, they all seemed to just be very loosely inspired by the notion of "Take this thing, moosh it with this other, more different thing"

Uh, it had like, less than nothing to do with Blade Runner. The obvious influences were Akira, Tron, and the Money for Nothing video.

Interstellar was a bad movie. So was Foxcatcher. They were bad movies that aspired to be great, and which arrived totally convinced of their greatness.That makes them worse.

The idea is that it's supposed to impugn Rogen's manhood because dumbness.

It's not even like they're doing anything with Starling or like they're expecting to. They're just shitting on everything because that's SOP.

Did he?

Well yes but on the other hand MUH BAE BAYH

Eh. I think, the more I think about it, that I'm just a handful of people saying the trial of Will Graham went on too long, alongside my belief that the back end of the season was so much better, then taking that and the mid-season tone-change and trying to explode that into an overwhelming critical consensus.

I did kind of misspeak. The second season isn't a misstep… but the early parts are. It takes too long for Will to get loose and for the Vergers to start looming large. Thankfully, once that happens, things get great.

I should have been clearer. Many people, including Fuller himself, have said that the will-in-prison parts are not as good as they should have been. Fuller has singled out the trial episode as a bad idea. The later parts are, obviously, brilliant and awesome. But it would've felt better to get to them sooner.

I should have been clearer. What I should have said is that how the early S2 handled the will situation was regarded as a misstep, ecause it is. There are a handful of dissenters, like Alan Sepinwall who thought the dreamy quality of the back end of the season was bad, but even fuller admitted it on this site in the…

Fuller said otherwise last year. He wants to get Red Dragon in the bag and to do Silence, either with Clarice or a knockoff Clarice or Will, for S4 if S4 happens.

The second season is widely regarded as a bit of a misstep. Fuller himself admits that he should've spent less time on the Will-in-jail stuff, and cites Will's trial in particular as kind of a fuckup.

Chef Boyardee's cover is, IMO, the definitive version: http://youtu.be/vHo7npmGcHU