Imagine how bewildered you'd be if you watched this show without knowing it was based on a comic called Archie…

Last week I forgot to mention my biggest laugh of the episode: a teaser promising that during the commercials THIS WEEK there'd be a 30-second advertorial about Veronica's Cover Girl look.

There was another moment just like that last week:

I wasn't going to say anything, but after the fourth comment I have to ask: are superfluous commas, your gimmick?

Leonard Part 7

It sounds very undergrad creative writing project.

I could totally be wrong here, but I don't think the time period confusion is going to have a concrete explanation beyond just being a deliberately ambiguous stylistic choice. The same way that Edward Scissorhand's jumbled period setting isn't an alternate universe or the skewed perspective of an unreliable…

I'm decidedly not a fan of Beat Generation literature, but even though it was played for laughs I really connected with Jemaine Clement's performance of that Ginsburg snippet. I never thought I'd say this, but I was actually disappointed it was over.

I wonder where she was for eight years before he met her. (Since if this were her first manifestation, she'd be a newborn, right?)

Man, I never notice this stuff. I didn't even see it the first two times I saw Grand Budapest Hotel.

I love Kerry's characterization as "like the Space Core from Portal 2, but for violence".

It was Neo and The Architect, as written by Garth Marenghi.

Blonde mutant with regrettable hair, a messed-up eye, and the miraculous ability to avoid getting shot?

UPDATE: Finally got an answer. Apparently it was someone named I. M. Groot…?

Why are you crying, Baby Groot? Who hurt you? Because I promise you that I WILL MURDER THEM.

As Pop Culture Survivor says below, these books are incredible, but the big draw isn’t the story…it’s the brilliant, acidic, euphoric writing. As you read them, you’ll find that each page features roughly six quotes you’ll want to forward to your quickly exhausted friends. But the plot is grim and the characters are…

As the books themselves say:

Beyond the revelations above, the article itself is a great read…a breezy but informative look at how weird it is to cover the Oscars as a reporter.

I just realized how much the header image looks like one of those Accidental Rennaissance Painting photos.

Based on this interview with the PWC folks from a few years ago, there WERE systems in place, but they were vague and seemingly not taken very seriously: