If the X-Files is all in Tommy Westphall's head, and given that Mulder and Scully once appeared on Cops, a reality show (the X-Files episode "X Cops"), then in fact all of reality is also inside Tommy Westphall's head. Excuse me, I'm going out for a pack of Morleys and a fifth of McCutcheon.

If the X-Files is all in Tommy Westphall's head, and given that Mulder and Scully once appeared on Cops, a reality show (the X-Files episode "X Cops"), then in fact all of reality is also inside Tommy Westphall's head. Excuse me, I'm going out for a pack of Morleys and a fifth of McCutcheon.

SPORTS NIGHT! HUZZAH!

SPORTS NIGHT! HUZZAH!

That song by the Eels. Can't remember the title, but the chorus is "God damn right, it's a beautiful day."

That song by the Eels. Can't remember the title, but the chorus is "God damn right, it's a beautiful day."

Here's the thing about Abed: for a while, he wanted to be accepted by the group, so he made himself likeable. After a couple of years, when he felt that he had been accepted, he dropped the likeability and allowed his natural self-confidence to take center stage. But since Abed's confidence is not tempered by social…

Agreed. It's been used elsewhere, but nowhere better, IMHO, than in My Name is Earl.

A few months ago, before Community's hiatus had been announced, I wrote an email to the NBC head honchos begging them not to cancel. Now I'm going to send them a thank-you card in honor of the show's return, then adding a lengthy postscript that begs them to allow at least a fourth season (which would make sense,…

Re-watched Sherlock and Mad Men, listened to back episodes of The Nerdist.

Actually, the rapidity with which people succumbed to the flu is completely medically accurate. 

Oh, wow. I always forget that Robin Williams is in Dead Poet's Society.

The two-parter episode "Chicago Holiday" from the first season of Due South followed a matchbook through the Windy City.

Yeah, I wish we'd gotten a little more time with his daughter talking about what his deal was. I always felt so bad for Ruth.

Crazy like a Cromwell.

Right? Hard to imagine that situation now.

Yeah, good point. They can also be doofuses - see Hugh Laurie in Blackadder for examples.

Agreed. He's definitely one of those people who shows up and makes everything a little bit better. See also: Stephen Fry.

A neighbor who was practicing his guitar played Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' "You Don't Know How it Feels" for roughly a summer. I hated Tom Petty and all his stupid fucking Heartbreakers after a week, despite being a decent supporter of them the previous spring. Took me years to get over it. The truth is, a bad…

Is this movie at all related to slasher-camp-classics Don't Look in the Basement or Don't Open the Door?