America wants Bread. And America. And Chicago.

I've been watching the show in order, and I'm really enjoying how things from one episode get incorporated in to the rest of the show. George occasionally talking about himself in the third person after The Jimmy is a perfect example of that.

I feel like the reason it was hard for the other actors to work with her is precisely what made it work in the show. She seems like the grounded, regular person in the midst of these flailing selfish lunatics. Plus, when she punched George for his obsession with Marisa Tomei, it was almost as good as watching Marisa…

I especially loved the 8-track tape robot because it's based on a toy that I had as a kid that I used to love. It was a robot called 2XL, and it was basically an 8-track with buttons that you could use to shift from one track to another. The tapes were all educational stuff, filled with multiple choice questions,…

*vomits*

It's at least as well thought out as a Saw movie.

Yet.

Is that really true about the suburbs? Rancho Cordova and Folsom both seem like very rich, white 'burbs.

Ah Tower Records. The only place I ever worked where half the staff would get drunk on their lunch break.

Part of that is some of the performances. "Blue Balls of the Heart" was a ridiculous line that was not done justice by Vaughn's dead (not deadpan) delivery. The jokes are just not landing as well this season.

I see that, but it still doesn't really resonate the way that it should (or it does only because Rachel McAdams does such a great job and not because of the script or story.) It's just a big missed opportunity to make the story connect to the other plots.

I don't think that it's that so much as the fact that the abuse doesn't really directly connect to the storyline. It's disappointing for the same reason that the end of the first season was disappointing. Here's all of this setup about her weird childhood at this institute with her cult leader dad, and that only…

Long drones with big, dissonant chords, over melodies that are slow moving. Not bouncy like Mozart or Haydn.

Wow! John Adams music I don't hate! Thanks!

Yeah, it was pretty much a rip on Bernard Hermann. Once the strings started playing whole tone scales right as she first started wandering around, I knew where things were headed both plot-wise, and musically. It was good, but a bit too on the nose, which is pretty much the positive thing that can be said about this…

*Salutes. Farts*

It is a reference to the fact that basketball is played with balls. You're welcome.

I remember the hamster hanging about for a while.

Rudd-cuddlin'

And instead of saying "You're fired," the loser is sucked into the vortex of the host's face.