Sudden doesn't always mean contrived, and I think it's realistic as well. Some industries are just like this*, where that boss you desperately wanted to get away from at the last company is suddenly your boss at the new one. I know I've been in that spot more than once, where I'm saying "fuck, I'm working for this…

This was before the internet. People had more free time then.

Yes, it comes from a manga-esque graphic novel, but that's incidental, the source material has nothing in common with a Marvel comic book.

I think the people hiring him keep thinking he's Ryan Gosling.

Scott Pilgrim also has absolutely nothing to do with comic book superheroes, or the whole "what if superheroes were real" trope.

Pulling the episode brought the show publicity during a week when everyone's distracted and probably wouldn't have watched anyway. Now that it was "censored" it becomes a commodity to seek out and, oh look, you can download it for $3.

"Drama is always gonna be more interesting than hypocrisy?" What does that actually mean?

I can't agree or disagree with you, because, while I know I sat through the Simpsons movie, I can remember almost nothing about it.

Yeah seriously. You read Carmela wrong completely if you think she's the moral compass of the Sopranos. The family stuff on that show was operating on a different level completely and I don't think you can make this comparison, especially if it's just to prop up The Shield as the superior show (which, frankly, isn't…

Broadcast quality cameras, mics etc are ridiculously inexpensive these days.

Tim Heidecker's a really funny and extremely talented guy who's created some amazing shit. Though I do kind of think he's been skirting dangerously close to the Franco Zone lately. A little editing would be nice, or perhaps not insisting he's the master of every medium of expression.

They also had a song on the Donnie Darko soundtrack. The BEST song on the soundtrack, Gary Jules be damned. Though is was inexplicably switched for INXS on the director's cut. Even though the movie prominently featured a BUNNYMAN.

I think fandom in general is pretty annoying. Extreme fans of anime can be fucking awful, just to pull a completely random example. And I'd much rather listen to ANY greatest hits album over and over in a long car ride if it meant I didn't have to listen to my travelling companion blather on about Neon Genesis…

That's so cute how she thinks Lucious Jackson is "rap music."

I think "killer" is supposed to refer to the show's quality, not the series itself. He doesn't kill shows but his presence means you're in for a weird, half-ass later episode of Happy Days or Married With Children.

"Keep getting work" as in, shows up as second tier draw in the occasional forgettable second tier film every three or four years or so?

"Why does this show exist? Why does it need to exist?"

I have no hard statistics to back this up, but I would wager good money that 99.9995% of concert videos shot on cell phones have never, ever been watched by anyone.

Speaking of Mad Men, that early Mad Men review made me really jittery all weekend. Please don't do that again.

Nick Cave was featured in Wings of Desire