I decided to listen to the Andy Daly Podcast Project August Lindt episode in an airport waiting for my flight at 5:30 in the morning. I was crying with laughter — crying with laughter at 5:30 AM is a great way to look like an absolute lunatic.

I like it! Let's take it to Broadway!

Is there anyone who has failed to live up to their 1990s hype as much as Neil LaBute? Sorry, auteur of The Wicker Man Neil LaBute.

I'd believe it — never trusted Matthew Broderick much anyway.

Gibney likes to bounce between socio-political, current topics (His amazing Enron doc, Going Clear, the ones you mentioned) and smaller-scale docs (like the one he did about six or seven years ago about enforcers in the NHL, his biopics). This doesn't seem too out of his wheelhouse to me.

Maria Bamford is such a terrific voice actress, and it really comes across in her standup. When she changes voices for whatever reason, she just instantly clicks into a fully realized character with a totally new voice, and then bam — back to her speaking voice without missing a beat.

I once asked Kevin Drew if I was officially a member of Broken Social Scene because we'd been in the same room for fifteen minutes.

Fuck you, The Killing

Ooh I loved The Newsroom.

The Canadian band Mother Mother also have a very good song called "Wrecking Ball". I often play the Miley Cyrus, Gillian Welch, and Mother Mother versions all in a row because I like all three.

I was about to be offended by what you said, but that smiley face at the end sure takes the edge off.

That DD seemed easy to me because Carthage sticks out as Rome's most famous early enemy, and they also would have had a large Christian population early on.

Yeah — Groening thought Homer going into space was too insane. Everything up until that point was either pretty slice of life, or an outside force coming into Springfield (like the Monorail) and causing trouble. This was Homer being selected to be an astronaut. He was not a fan of the concept but relented once he saw…

Yet, did anyone think to ask if they hated "I D'ohbot"? Perhaps they should have.

He only admitted he was wrong on Deep Space Homer and appears in the commentary for that. I thought he was in the commentary for this episode but just checked and he's not.

Of course! It's so simple. Wait, no it's not — it's needlessly complicated.

Shearer is a pretty crusty guy, but Groening's not humorless — he's just not as involved in the day to day production work on the show as many people assume. He's also pretty hands off when it comes to the show, but he's popped in for conflicts over what he views as major changes to the show's integrity (The Critic…

It's got that great Twin Peaks parody — "Brilliant, ha ha! I have absolutely no idea what's going on."

"Simpsons Tide" feels totally insane when watched in the context of Season 9. It's not a bad episode by any means, but that whole Soviet Union Returns sequence with Lenin felt like a zany cutaway from The Critic more than anything (and of course, "Simpsons Tide" was an Al Jean/Mike Reiss joint so it makes sense).

Well, they were on their way out anyway — this is the second last episode they ran, the last being Lisa The Simpson.