One little nuanced obfuscation I noticed in the pilot of Girls: they make it a point to give the cab driver an accent (for realism's sake, I suppose), but they sort of go out of their way to avoid actually showing you the cab driver.

Th- thank you…

I fucking lost it during MacLachlan's sultry croon.

This is like when I realized there were two Eric Foremans on tv.

Sleigh Bells didn't have to suck, but the SNL stage has notoriously bad sound for the musical acts, and with their past-11 schtick they just sounded hilariously tinny.

I hate to say it but when I really do think about Weekend Update, I only remember the countless times Seth Meyers has totally garbled the lines. I hope the anchor of Update's next incarnation develops some kind of character.

REL, he'd have to just want to do it himself. Timberlake's always good for an appearance, but as a regular cast member? That might be a little much.

The minute she uttered that, I thought "Why didn't they get Fred Armisen to do Franzen?"

This show is really cannibalizing itself.

The Replacements's SNL performance is still hands-down the best.

I happened to be watching SNL when she performed, it was my first exposure to "Lana Del Ray" and she looked a bit like some kind of neo-Americana chanteuse. Of course then the now-infamous hilariously-catastrophic interestining-in-a-car-crash-way performance proceeded, but I just chalked it up to nerves or something,…

"…boopie-doopie doo…SEX" pretty much sums up the ethos of a lot of LDR's image.