Well, Love and Death was certainly his peak in the pure comedy department. I wish that movie got more acknowledgement outside Woody fans. I never see it on "Best Comedies of All Time" lists, and it definitely belongs there.

Yes, too bad about Demme, we never got another Something Wild or Melvin and Howard style thing out of him.

Hey, can we have a conversation about how underrated Quiz Show is? No one on here's done that before, have they?

It should have won in a special Editing category for Best Diagonal Wipes.

Gladiatior is only 155 min (2 hrs 35min) long! That's ten minutes shorter than "Dark Knight Rises", ten minutes longer than The Avengers and Skyfall!  Gladiator predates the Great Movie Run-Time Expansion of the 00/'10s by a number of years.  Two and a half hours was truly considered long then! I'm getting nostalgic.

The main character is supposed to be dumb. Very dumb. The movie is also funny, in a very dark, not-announcing-itself as such way.

I wish Louis would just make his own full length films. We all know he's got at least one "Annie Hall" level work in him, if not many more…

Or strap you to his fender next to the Berkowitzs.

It reached the same level of  "okay" as every other movie Woody's done for the last 15 years.

George McFly heavy. "I am your Density."

Had this category existed, Late Night with Conan O'Brien would have swept it every year of the 1990s and early 2000s.

Same here. I think I even watched the pilot the night it aired! (I was a total Geek, and avid TV Guide reader in those days…)  And I think I still have some VHS tapes of the episodes from when they were rerunning on the Family channel (fox? abc?).

My avatar kindly disagrees with you, sir!  I'm not going to go overboard defending it, Busting is pretty minor and has its problems, but the 70s underdog-slacker vibe and great chemistry between Gould and Blake go a long ways in my book. Plus, Elliot Gould's decorum and actions in every scene are pretty great.

Damn. Beat me to it.

One way this could actually work: if Daft Punk scores the soundtrack.

Yes, it is truly great. Just discovered it a few months ago. As you said, some great horn and strings arrangements, and that voice. Surprised, sadly, I haven't seen it on any list of "Top ___# Blues Albums".

That's a really good point. I've always thought in life there are just some people that are able to get away with bad behavior, through charisma or whatever other mysterious force they possess. And whatever it is, Hank ain't got it.

Are we doing a Shadoe Stevens appearance/reference count?  How about for Bruno Kirby? They're both going to stack up as the show goes along…

"…the extreme nature of Hank's asshole turn seems to arise not so much
from his innate character flaws as from the bizarre
celebrity/entertainment environment in which he is immersed."

Okay, so Hank may reach (one of) his peak(s) of assholery in the episode, but for every one of those, you can fast forward to "Hank's Divorce" for the other side of things…