Superjail was perfect in that regard, because it combined the surreal (occasionally very surreal) with a structure you could set your watch to. By which I mean every episode ended in three minutes of creative acts of hyper-violence.

They pose at a willingness to honor these films, these 10 they deemed to be front-runners for the best of the year, and then don't. At all. It's fine that a film can simply get by-passed, but it's ridiculous that we're expected to take nominations seriously if they keep making it clear that there's still a short list…

This is a body that rejected "Black Swan" and "The Social Network" for "The King's Speech." Yes. They are old people.

I saw Spacey doing a Mamet play at his London theater (with Jeff Goldblum! Famous people, tee-hee!) and he seemed incredibly at home, like being a part of the Old Vic might be the end-all, be-all of his career.

Before the show, there was a clip of them doing MGMT, and it was kinda awesome. And then they picked the same song every group of elementary school kids sing and then there's nothing special. Wasted.

You better watch it. That's some dangerous talk you've got going there.

I'm impressed he acknowledged his home state, since the movie he made celebrates being a Brooklyn import.

You're insisting that the Academy make a good idea regarding the presentation of the awards. This is the same body that had four nominees for the biggest award of the night not win a single thing.

Did you see the shorts?
"Na Wewe" and "Madagascar" were two of my least favorite shorts, so it stuns me that there's talk of them winning. The latter did not need to be in 3-D, since it was visually exhausting enough and made little sense to begin with. And yeah, "Na Wewe" is about fighting tribes and warlords in…

"The Social Network" was even more roundabout with it. Essentially, it wasn't really adapted. Sorkin did his own research, made his own story. However, the same research was being done at the exact same time for "The Accidental Billionaires," and it, to echo a theme of the movie, got there first. The producers went…

This year, they've incorporated these potentially aggravating "Scenic Transitions," which sound like TCM filler shoehorned into one of the biggest nights of television. The sort of thing that would be charming if you saw it on an airplane or in a bar (you know, those bars that show TCM), but that you're not about to…

This is sort of my argument against decaf coffee.

I've got Ace Frehley
I've got Peter Criss. Waiting here for me. Yes I do.

Also, people from "The Wire" go down to southwestern Missouri to help a teen girl find her meth-cooking father. Set to a soundtrack full of Eels and Pixies.

The whole thing just sounds like the M.O. of pretty much every corporation ever. Basically delegating up.

I believe they should keep anyone involved with "Party Down" in a controlled environment, making an on-going live episode, 24/7. The actors may only rest when not on screen. The writers may never rest.

Take it out back and shoot it.

We don't have eggplant parmesan.

Well, shit. I need to get my obit info from some source other than AV Club. That is a tragedy.

Sounds like someone needs to watch the Puppy Bowl.