I'll miss Jebidiah Atkinson but I think Killam was looking tired and burned out over the past couple of seasons. The only Killam on SNL worth watching is one who's having fun.

That whole sequence - complete with Arnold absolutely mangling his lines with the soporific expression he always used when he was supposed to be looking calculating, as well as Vernon Wells absolutely chewing the shit out of every syllable he spoke…

Richard Crenna's performance in First Blood is so jarringly out of character with literally everything else in the movie, it's hard not to admire it.

John Matrix is the most amazing 80s character name of all time. It is, in fact, why I purchased a Toyota Matrix in 2004.

We're overdue for a decade of reality-ignoring escapism like what Ronald Reagan brought us. In Reagan's America, we could win every war, including ones we had actually lost in the past. All enemies could be defeated with a laugh, a quip, and an absurd ease. Vengeance's only repercussion was applause.

I don't know about millennials, but the reason I stopped watching Monday Night Football is the perplexing and entirely frustrating way that ESPN's production value on that broadcast - and, generally, ALL of its sports broadcasts these days - has tanked, and tanked hard.

I am hoping he just meant to type "aging" and it was just a hilarious autocorrect.

Who said I'm voting for Hillary?

Yeah, that was kind of my point. The boomers have a past that is riddled with easy landmarks and siloed by the progression of media. Later history tends to run together because it's everpresent and, with each passing year, it's harder to see the wear and tear of time… an HD video from 15 years ago is virtually the…

The worst part about Trump is not Trump. He's a buffoon.

I saw your comment before I clicked over to YouTube. That should have been warning enough. BUT DID I LISTEN? *sob*

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To hell with your mugs, what about my scrotal tattoo???

The thing about boomers is that they were the first generation of Americans to see their lives documented in mass media, but the fact that those media archives went from black and white to color somehow inculcated a heavier-than-expected weight of nostalgia to their past. I believe that boomers are the first and last…

I see a 16-tonne weight falling from the sky to crush him at some point.

The part I always mist up at is at the end when Forrest, beset with wonder at the sight of his son, suddenly realizes what that could mean and says, hesitantly, and with a frightened crack in his voice, "Is he like me?"

Hilarious episode all around, but the whole "TALK IN MY CAR/TALK IN HER CAR" followed by the midsentence jump cut reminded me a whole lot of the vibe from "Hot Rod." Which, IMO, is not a bad thing.

My wife also brought up the Pushing Daisies comparo last night. I hope The Good Place has a bit more largesse from the network.

The dog punt gave me the first real belly-laugh of the series. Considering that it took Parks and Recreation a full season to give me one of those, and that it turned into one of my favorite sitcoms of all time, I'm reasonably optimistic about The Good Place.

IIRC it was specifically mandated by Roddenberry for some of the extras for at least the first half of S1 of TNG. They quietly got rid of it after that, but it wasn't just one guy.