You have no idea. I watched a couple episodes, and it was just jaw-droppingly awful, and not in an Ed Wood "so bad it's good" way, just desperately, direly unfunny. I remember one show, they had Goldie Hawn on—she costarred with Chevy in "Foul Play", which is a pretty good movie, and apparently they were friends. …

Yeah, Lawrence is by all reports awful. That chick that played his wife in the show, the one that Morris mentions, sued Lawrence for harassing and stalking her.

let's hope he doesn't drive a VW Beetle

"I got a Molly Shannon “I’m 50!” vibe"

I haven't read "Live From New York" in a long time, but wasn't SNL supposed to get cancelled in 1980, when the cast left? (Or in Garrett's case, was fired?)

"Then whitey he won't bother meeeeeeeeee…"

Gaad is everything Stan should be but isn't. Gaad would never let Nina twist him around like that.

Do we really want to devote long portions of this program to Paige in youth group and church? As opposed to spies doing spy stuff?

Well, the Orthodox Church in Russia was in fact one of the tools the state used to control the peasantry.

oh, good call

Elizabeth's real name is Nadezha or something. IIRC we have never learned Phillip's real, Russian name.

Read "Revolution 1989". Afghanistan and all the time and money the Russians were spending there was in fact one reason why Gorbachev wasn't interested in trying to retain the Eastern Bloc countries. Another was the plummet in oil prices that decade—remember gas for less than a dollar a gallon?—which was a gut punch…

I too thought that Phil was going to strangle Annelise right there in the bathroom.

That was fucking fabulous.

Thus dating to at least 1971

Ah, that makes more sense.

Yes, one would think our reviewers would pay attention.

It's forgotten today but there is, or there was, definitely a left-wing socialistic strain of Christianity, "camel through the eye of a needle" and whatnot. See Chapters 4 and 5 of Acts, where the early Christians are sharing property and two of them are killed by God for not sharing their stuff. Eugene Debs used to…

Annelise is sexier than Elizabeth. Much curvier body than rail-thin Elizabeth, as already noted above. Of course, Annelise is a shitty spy.

"My roommate and I were nasally intoning “Everything’s FINE, in the sunSHINE” to each other for a full day after watching that."