Which leaves open the biggest question in this blog we live in: Will there be Alec Baldwin??

Due to my painfully low self-esteem (which I mask with excessive over-confidence in my ability to have serious romantic relationships with beautiful strangers), I have already begun construction on a break-up shelter. It's the place where I will run to after losing her and quitting my job. In it, I will have WiFi,…

You're right, she IS holding out for me, because I deserve her. I have earned having her as my own. I have spent countless hours of introspection and discovered, deep inside myself, that possessing an attractive brunette such as Zooey Deschanel is my Divine Right.

I wonder how many "In space, no one can hear you scream" jokes Phipps had lined up. I'd reckon one per possible grade. Like an A would be "In space, no one can hear you scream, but they definitely can in the movie theaters!" or something celebratory.

The most upsetting idea here is that people are still going to pay good money for the goddamn Blu-Rays. It's the Patton Oswalt Syndrome.

This movie is serious: when it comes out and it's actually a good idea, then we'll all be sorry. We'll all regret looking down on it, thinking right off the bat that it's mediocre. We don't know it! We don't know what it's capable of! There's a greatness inside of it that no one, not its teachers, not its parents, not…

While I'm very glad to see this show becoming as weird as it has a right to be (man, I wish Ryan had tried to have sex with Ethan Suplee early on), I'm getting more and more tired of the dog humor. "Talking dog hates vacuum" was a recurring joke on "Family Guy," to give an idea of how tired the joke is (bam. Got 'em.).

The way the stand-up works in the show is still a little nebulous to me. It's kind of a thematic bridge, a la "Seinfeld," but not (one of my favorite moments from very early in the show is in the second episode when he starts having sex with an old classmate and then the audio cuts in, "The reason I don't fuck animals…

Pase Rock did it already with "Lindsay Lohan's Revenge"
Including the hook "Why you showin' those coochie lips/Gettin' up out your car?"

When is one of them
Just going to vanish on some island?

One Glaring Over-Sight:
We still can't delete our own comments.

Best Show on TV right now?
I mean… thinking about it, it's incredibly plausible. Like the review said, it's only summer, but still. This statement might even hold water in September.

Whatever. The British version was better.

I wonder if this picture would appear in Ratner's obit.

Sounds like AVClub is going to ask Adam Schlesinger what songs he wrote.

Adam Schlesinger is an Oscar nominee for "That Thing You Do."

"More celebrities here than rehab"
Best way to possibly follow up that cast list.

What to do when your premise has no plot:
Give it a dozen plots. Or something.

You thought it was a drama, Rabin?
Huh. I would have said dark comedy. The 9/11 stuff didn't come across nearly as maudlin as it seems it did here. I found the coarseness of claiming ownership of a recent national tragedy to be the strongest part of the movie, leading to it's most genuine laughs and progressing in a…

Saw the movie with the director and leads doing a Q&A
Brit Marling and Mike Cahill wrote it, in addition to starring and directing it, so they were the focal point (William Mapother was clearly just proud to finally be the most recognizable face).