There was a moment at the concert where he spotted Raylan and Winona that he might have been there with a guy. It was real quick, like "Rawls in the gay bar"- quick on The Wire.

I wouldn't say that they had their show stolen, but rather it's hard to shoehorn two characters who are college graduates into a college show. If the focus is to remain the undergrad experience, you're going to need new blood - same as any school-set show (look at FNL - I don't think anyone would say that Matt Lauria…

She was positioned as the snobby, rich (again, rare for TV at the the time - evidence of a monied, Southern black upper class) antagonist to free spirit Denise in the first season, but became a member of the central couple when the show retooled between the first and second seasons.

Cosby wanted to include a college-age child to better reflect the college experience and parenting a child that age. It's rumored that a young Whitney Houston was up for the part.
Other retooling efforts included changing Cliff to a doctor from a plumber (which he is n the pilot) because he insisted on making the…

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I didn't see Rent until a few years ago and the only thing I could think was that these were selfish assholes who didn't give a shit about anyone else in the community. I guess that comes from growing up in NYC at that time in a Brooklyn neighborhood a lot like the LES, but I just kept thinking "where are the families…

The rehearsal of "Stool Boom" from Waiting for Guffman - O'Hara shouting that last "Stool" after the music stops cracks me up every single time.

And yet this is only the second shittiest sitcom about the First Family on air right now.

I'm definitely gonna have to get this. I don't think it's an understatement to say Alan influenced the way I watch TV. I started reading his NYPD Blue recaps that he used to host on the UPenn server when I was in high school to catch up and his blog got me up on the first season of the Write before i got HBO/torrents.…

Perhaps I missed something, but I read Randall and Lix's backstory differently - I don't think he knew she was pregnant until after she had given the baby up (in Spain - it's mentioned that the family moved to France after the civil war) and he's spent the last 20 years looking for their child. He accepted her…

Seriously? C'mon Farihah - that wasn't Annie's father, that was her abusive husband (a MAJOR plot point from the pilot). When Annie compliments Eva about things she can learn, she's clearly alluding to pleasing Kevin in bed, not being sincere in her innocence.

Seriously? C'mon Farihah - that wasn't Annie's father, that was her abusive husband (a MAJOR plot point from the pilot). When Annie compliments Eva about things she can learn, she's clearly alluding to pleasing Kevin in bed, not being sincere in her innocence.

I'll forgive the out-of-order airing for getting to see Max's Russian bear on the unicycle routine and him finally going full Winnie the Pooh in the end.
And as an admittedly shallow guy, I've got to say that all three women in the cast were looking damn good tonight.

Yeah, pretty much.

The con took place in Portland, which I'm guessing was an inside joke by the writers considering that's where they film anyway. For once, they didn't have to sell it as "Boston".

Diez - as in 10 en español.

Except Northampton is twice that distance away and much more closely aligned with the crunchy folk style in the sketch than frat-tastic or indie wannabe vibe of metro Boston.

Except Northampton is twice that distance away and much more closely aligned with the crunchy folk style in the sketch than frat-tastic or indie wannabe vibe of metro Boston.

The new jack swing sketch just seemed to draw attention to the fact that SNL doesn't have enough black actors to pull it off - why they would actively highlight that is weird. Romney could be taken in so many different directions (increasingly manic frustration at being overlooked as the reasonable choice, trying to…

Cash wanted to do more than feed him cupcakes. It was a power play from the beginning. She was putting Max in her place with the chocolate/vanilla speech. I felt that was an actually well-written heel turn and I'm glad they didn't make her an oblivious patsy (and that's pretty much the only positive thing about the…