"Dad likes [that] the Echo just plugs in, so we never have to charge it."

No Exit Through the Gift Shop?

This seems like a minor Richard Linklater movie

I thought for sure the car would get stuck, and the kid would go to retrieve it and find a fat stack of Jesse's bills.

They really don't listen to these. The only way you'd ever know the Kyle Kinane Nerdist ep cuts off is that Hardwick makes a big deal of it up top. I understand it's a ton to cover, but if you're going to do it…

So… how pissed is Maron that Chris personally ruined The Week of Marc?

+1 to Wolverine.  Familiarity with addiction and recovery puts Chris' attitude in a whole lot more context.  Recovery makes you very wary of irony, and really happy just to be alive doing things besides drinking alone in a dark room watching television.  Chris doesn't talk about it that much (at least compared to…

Did the inscrutable list thing strike anyone else as a Lost reference? I couldn't shake the notion that that's what they were nodding to.

What about Sebadoh? Indie huge, I know, but I'll be damned if Bakesale couldn't have been played on alt fm in the 90s alongside Nevermind, Ten, any STP, Soundgarden, etc.

The credits said Closter Golf Range in Closter, NJ

Watching this something seemed familiar…
… until the credits confirmed that it was filmed at the range where I have been taking lessons!

I'll throw in a vote for Saturday, which I think was the last episode. There was no central plot, but several concurrent mini-plots, two of which have never escaped my mind, mostly because I think of them as my earliest exposure to existentialism: the first being little Pete's friend with the new white sneakers who…

That show was great… one of several foreign cartoons on Nick in the late-80s/early-90s. See also Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea, Danger Mouse, Belle & Sebastian…

Hell yeah! One of the first signs that I was done with my pretentious bands-you-haven't-heard-of stage was a massive binge of early Genesis albums. This song is sweet! Too bad Firth of Fifth is 9:35!

Kevin's Adoring Gaze
This was the second time I noticed it: when the guest judge is being introduced and the camera pans over the cheftestants, it lingers on a shot of Kevin wearing an absolutely priceless, warm and fawning look of admiration. It's really something.

Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)?
For some commentary from Phil himself: