OH, and, apologies if this has been mentioned before, but — I find Cooper's role in Don's fate very interesting.  A great callback to an early season (was it season 1?)  Cooper KNOWS about Don't secret past, so unlike Roger, when Don outs himself with Hershey, Cooper knows he's telling the truth.  But more…

Two things about the Peggy storyline this season:

The casual cruelty of the response to Pete's mom's death is extremely funny to me.  There has been rampant speculation about a) a murder, and b) Bob Bensen having some dark secret agenda, for the bulk of the season.

Everytime anything happens on this show, or on Community, Arrested Development, Parks and Rec, or Futurama, all the commentors on the AV Club get a shiny nickel.

I will never have as much courage as Will Harris did, doing this interview.  Caan is intimidating on any day, but (at least as I read this) it looks like at several points he was going to punch someone.

PG-13 horror movies with muted violence (i.e. no explicit imagery of anything):

I don't loathe these as much as I do the earlier episodes — I will leave them on if that's what the syndication gods have allotted for me when I'm in the mood for Friends — but that "Top of the World" bit makes me cringe.  It has a distinctive "early season of a show" problem, in that the joke involves the characters…

I love it when armchair critics point out the mistakes a studio made with a movie that made shittons of cash and is widely praised.  Yeah, clearly they dropped the ball.

I agree.  I think the All-Star Superman stories were some of the best ever.  This isn't Batman.  There's a sci-fi element to Superman, for one thing, that is hard to eliminate — partly because he's an alien who came here in a spaceship, and partly because with his incredible powers, most of his best foes have a sci-fi…

I'm torn on it, but I do think it's unjustly maligned.  I also don't get AT ALL why the conventional wisdom is that it failed because it was too beholden to the Donner movies.  First, there really isn't THAT much overlap, beyond the music.  The "concept of Superman" in the character is similar, but it's also a…

Hahahahahaha!  The update is my favorite part.  She never used the N-word at all!  Except to describe a guy who mugged her at gunpoint once.  Oh, and if she's talking about black people.

Based on my experiences at MW, I'd say that they gave him the severance pay, the licensing fee, and then brought out 15 shirt-and-tie combinations which they laid out on a table in front of him, pressuring him to buy each for different "looks" and pointing out how interchangeable they could all be, before out of sheer…

I love how she gradually works her way to the whole awkward "slavery" thing.  Starts with "a certain era," which nice and evasive, good and vague.  Then we move into, you know, "after the Civil War" before admitting, well, fine "during the Civil War" and then we just end up owning it.  "Before the Civil War." …

You, sir, have made me laugh today.  You write an excellent Ron Swanson scene.

This show makes me violate one of my fundamental rules for comedy:  it gets me to laugh at reference humor.  I normally consider it the lowest form of comedy, even non-comedy.  It's just pointing to something and expecting a laugh from an audience familiar with the object you're pointing to.  "Hey, look!  Remember…

Well, it's not for everyone.  It's pleasant for fans of low-rated shows to believe that the reason the show is low-rated is because "the masses just don't get it, man."  Something like Arrested Development thrives on that attitude — it's just too SMART for people, man!

And they have a monkey.  Now is it the WORST idea ever?

I cracked up at that moment.  My wife, who was only half-watching, was like "Wha'd I miss?!?"

Yeah.  I have to admit, I was disappointed that this review was anchored around an idea that seemed completely misguided to me.  That was in no way mercy.  Pete came right out and admitted it — he capitulates, he knows that "these people" are better than he is at this sort of political game (making people like you and…

Maybe this has been dealt with already, but — when the SCDP folks were discussing their worst moments with clients and Roger mentioned someone who asked him to hold his balls, was that a reference to the same client who outted Sal and got him fired?  It feels like it was.