Totally agreed.  The boss was essentially Rebecca from Cheers.

You're right.  Evidently, there were at least two animated interpretations of Wings at the time.  Who says children's programming isn't creative?

Eff this!  GIVE US LIVE-ACTION TALESPIN!

I'm with you. I never bother with the music write-ups here because: 1) my tastes are substantially different from the critics and 2) I'm an old sack of shit who barely keeps up with music anymore

Dude, Komodo Dragons

ARK TO ARK!

The fuck's an ass-robot?

Good fuckin point on Goggins.  But then, I always think that

Has anyone seen Let The Bullets Fly?  I watched the first 10 minutes and turned it off because it was so shitty.

I suppose The Corrections had some more outlandish qualities like the old man's demented fantasies and Chip's Lithuanian adventure but I don't know if I'd consider them "surreal".  Of course, this is basically semantics and I largely agree with what you are saying.

Please God let him appear in brown-face. 

That might be my favorite voice ever on The Simpsons

I think some of those things are Franzen's shortcomings- like the lapses into laziness and obsession with detailing the origins of character traits- and some of those things were specific to Freedom.  I think some of the characters were thin like Lalitha or passed over like the daughter but the son and Richard were…

Take THAT, Space Coyote!

May you be buried up to your neck near a hill of CancerAIDS Ants

A bot post bitching about the annoyances of technology is just about the most perfect thing ever.

The real question is: what exactly did you hate about Freedom?  I think the style of writing and format in The Corrections and Freedom are very similar but that the characters are quite different.  I could see the characters in Freedom turning a lot of people off because most of them are horrible and selfish.  But if…

I dunno, I imagine I'll be pretty dead inside by the time 51 rolls around.  May as well look how you feel :)

Executions for all

Excellent point. That movie boils down to a series of insults directed at Holly's character culminating in the famous ending shot where she walks right the fuck past him without acknowledging his presence.