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The show has done a great job of making the Jennings look increasingly like victims this season. They're on the giving end of all sorts of brutal acts, yet they repeatedly come across as "small" in the midst of it all. We of course know they've merely been taking orders all along, but more than ever they seem like

So messed up, yet so accurate.

I loved how everything the woman said was something a good Soviet like Elizabeth would find admirable.

That kid put up a pretty good fight for someone with a bullet hole in his face. For a while I thought maybe he had just been grazed, but nope, huge bullet hole right in the face.

"Welp, just got instructed to take the rest of the day off by my boss at the FBI. Time to drive directly to a secluded spot to crack some beers with a Soviet agent in broad daylight."

1) the way the guitars lock in together before the breakdown section

Yes, but only in recent decades has it become possible to live such a "full" vicarious life without ever leaving the room where your TV and computer reside. In the past, even living vicariously used to mean having to go out and do something, whether it was going to a performance, playing a sport, building a fort, or

Duh. What did you think all that "brother" and "sister" stuff was about?

In the (amazing) UHF retrospective the AVC published a few days ago, Weird Al stated that he's resisted making a sequel largely based on his desire not to ruin the nostalgia of the original movie's fans. Now that's creative integrity.

Pogs are back…in Pog form!!

It's because peoples' memories/identities are becoming increasingly tied to things they've watched rather than things they've actually done. Anyone would love to be able to relive the best real-life events of their youth, which is impossible to do. But it's not impossible to recreate the best entertainment we

I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that was tongue-in-cheek.

"It's a potholder."

Two phrases that appear on the screen during the Spatula City commercial:

Yep. Thinking back, I must have rented it at least a dozen times as kid. Luckily for my parents, it was a free rental from the public library.

Yeah, the McCarthy thing got a little dark for a minute there. He really brought it home nicely with the "standing in a parking lot in Tulsa" line though.

Q: What do you call a trombone player with a pager?

Yes, that is a genuine key change.

Agree. You have to be able to talk in musical terms to be a good music critic because your job is to describe sounds the reader hasn't heard. Not to say an album review should be a dissertation on music theory, but phrases like "a swarm of horns," "agile acoustic drumming," and "the kind of music pianos can make"

Nice. This joke takes me back to about 5th grade.