It bespeaks to a waste of money. His fans donated money so Braff could make an utterly average bit of festival bait that'll die a quick death on the VOD circuit.

I'm waiting to see if this season can top last season's consecutive Fs by achieving an unprecedented hat trick.

Classic Poe!

Sims was actually getting excited by something in this show? My god has he snapped? Or perhaps Fox found the thing that most terrifies him, and now he's overcome himself and learned to Love the Following?

Actually I think it suits Braff's work perfectly. I reserve As and Fs for films that really aspire and either succeed, or fail miserably, but not for lack of trying. "The Room" gets an F, but dammit, it tries, even if it is miserably haphazard and incompetent.

Wish I Was Here - "I Couldn't Quite Bring Myself to Hate It."

A Letter to Three Wives…forgotten? It seems to be a pretty well regarded film I'd say…

I'm sure that Katherine Heigl's show will be up to her always exacting standards of excellence in plotting and narrative.

And that's just it, when they DO reference current pop, they're really good about it. Like the Ren & Stimpy reference. That carries weight because they chose their riffs wisely. Ren & Stimpy wound up having a legacy as a really great, transgressive show, and it adds an extra layer to the SImpsons that they caught…

Yeah and all the pop culture references are so coded to the now….it's gotta be on TV (preferably Fox) or in theaters that year to make the cut.

and surly!

Could you dumb it down a bit for me?

The joke about Faulkner in this episode is everything good about the Simpsons…so brilliantly funny, yet demands of its viewers a knowledge of the 30s Hollywood system and of Southern Gothic literature to fully appreciate. Took me years to get it, but when I did I loved it all the more.

The dude is a legend for nailing Norma Shearer, 18 years his senior, and one of the great beauties of 30s cinema.

A little slim yes, but not by very much. I cursory glance of some of the major films released the same year as this episode shows that the budgets ranged from 50 million to 80 million in most cases, such as Braveheart, Apollo 13 and Die Hard with a Vengeance. A few cracked 100 mil, but we'd not yet reached the point…

Though there is no proven causal relationship with the rise of heavy sack beatings.

Hey! JoeyJoeJoe!

Is it true he still haunts the bordello where they found his bullet riddled body?

He also hosted the best omnisexual fuckfests.

"The goggles they do nothing!" has to be one of the all time great lines..one of those lines that is actually transcendent, to mean anything that does not work as it should to ensure safety.