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The performance of "No, I Don't Remember Giuldford" from that movie is really great. Not the best song selection, but probably the perfect introduction to Hitchcock.

Great tale for a great movie. I'm surprised that, say, Harold Ramis didn't end up directing this. Demme directing would have been interesting.

This show is so delightfully loopy this season. I hope they switch off the theme music for every episode, even though it would be funny to stick with the Perfect Strangers theme. I suspect "perfect strangers" may be a bit of a running theme for the entire season.

Claiming that he doesn't believe in the Sandy Hook conspiracy theory while simultaneously planting to seeds in his listeners as to why they should was the same deal he pulled with Pizzagate. For someone so apparently unhinged, that is a very legally terrified approach.

Every season of this show has been great so far, but I'm kinda worried it's getting a bit too repetitive. Even Russ's appearance on this episode was kind of disappointing. I think they need some really strong new characters besides the Pied Piper guys. Some new villains would be great. I'm just worried that the show's

All-time fave is SST. Black Flag, Descendents, Dinosaur Jr, Husker Du, Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Sonic Youth, Meat Puppets, Sacharine Trust and all the odder bands like Bl'ast and Slovenly. Honorable mention goes to Merge, Sub-Pop and Matador. They were all excellent over the years. Darkhorse selection is Popllama. Cool

Portlandia?

I liked it when Gronk opened the door to the White House's equipment room to deflate some footballs. Only problem was that it was actually the White House press room. He then had a jovial exchange with Spicer that obviously wasn't staged at all.

Fox News would probably get better ratings if they ran late 90s reruns of CNN's Crossfire in that time slot.

Is the network just trying to fast-track themselves to unemployment checks by putting Tucker in his spot? That dude was like plan C back in his more popular bow tie wearin' CNN days.

Upperclass Twit of the Year.

Here's a fitting statement regarding this outcome and something that O'Reilly has probably never said in his life:

Those were some baaaaaad musical times going down in that photo there. Very, very, very bad. This is like the 1930s trying to bring back the dust bowl.

The joke in Cry Wilderness about learning to build a birdcage with a ceiling really killed me.

Beast of Hallow Mountain is my new all-time favorite MST3K episode. Just absolute perfection. The second half is just a marathon of laughs. Right when Pancho dies the monster appears. The main laughs literally switch out tag team style. So good.

Now that would've been a seriously old-school nod! I very much respect your opinion on this though. I would hate to see, say, Joel Hodgson or Seinfeld, go super-political at the moment. I think their strengths lie in something different. I think if Fallon was more naturally funny his act wouldn't grate on me so much.

Or the Trump/Obama phone calls. Some of the best political satire in ages.

I agree. It's really the saddest part of his recent ratings decline. It feels like Leno vs. Letterman all over again. One is absolutely authentic and has serious bite, the other just mutates into the form that the most people will tune into.

Some great observations here. I think the worst part might be that SNL really tried to run with a lot of the same concepts that Fallon had success with after he left. They really veered away from politics for a while and just stocked the show with tons of second-rate pop-culture parodies. So much of the show's recent

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