In re: that last item on your list… They only got the rights to perform the song once. In all reruns (both syndicated and back when NBC still ran Scrubs reruns), on DVD, and on Netflix, it was replaced with Jan Stevens' incidental music which you've heard in at least 100 other episodes. Losing that musical cue pretty…

Yeah, after his horrible rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," he sits the rest of the episode out. I liked that they didn't oversell the joke.

What would it take to get Myles to do the Raising Hope reviews weekly, in place of Phil? This was a great write up.

I still sorely miss My Name Is Earl. This show is a good-enough replacement, but if someone offered Garcia a deal that he could make season 5 of Earl with the same cast and crew, but only if he ended Raising Hope, I would root for him to take the deal. Jason Lee > Lucas Neff, and Eddie Steeples > EVERYONE ELSE.

I liked the Leslie/Ben/Dave plot. Good to see Louis C.K. back. He gets a lot of flak for being a bad actor (a lot of it self-inflicted, actually), but you can see that he's actually playing Dave as a character, and imbuing him with a personality quite distinct from Louis himself. He's very well-written, and very…

A semi-serious list of possibilities, in what I feel to be descending order of likelihood:

I mentioned last week that this is my all-time favorite episode. That's almost entirely due to the guest stars (though it's nice to see Artie actually causing some of the chaos in addition to heroically resolving most of it). John Ritter and Gene Siskel were both game guests, and their animosity is so realistic that I…

I love that version of it - and in fact, my band in college did a pretty dang good version of it, if I say so myself… But is it a "cover," so to speak? I thought The Band co-wrote it with Dylan.

Yeah, it didn't immediately jump to mind when I was thinking of my favorite episodes a few weeks back, but this one definitely stands up to a close examination.

I dunno @avclub-383beaea4aa57dd8202dbff464fee3af:disqus , I think Hank may have been the winner of that particular transaction. Whether he realized it or not.

Still, we got a full episode of The Larry Sanders Show with not one, but two relatively unadorned and uninterrupted performances from Mr. Zevon, solo on his piano.

True, it didn't need to be Alex Trebek, and they really only get in one joke that couldn't have been told with anyone else ("Tell Vanna I said hi"). For me, it was one of those little details of verisimilitude - Trebek was exactly the kind of person a show like The Larry Sanders Show would get to do a stunt wedding…

Okay, I could get behind that interpretation. Maybe I need to rewatch the episodes in which she appears to get a better sense of her character arc.

Yeah, it's a tough call. If she just wanted to ditch him, any old excuse would do, but one that happens to be true would be especially convenient.

Well, it wasn't funny, but was it meant to be funny? I actually did get a little choked up when Hank couldn't read his vows aloud and had Larry do it for him. The scene is pregnant with subtext, but not laughworthy. I would argue that they weren't aiming for laughs with that scene, but rather for poignancy. And I…

I agree, the former seems plausible and preferable.

My god, I love this episode. The moral conflict of being supportive of your friend against being honest about the situation they're into is not new territory for a TV show, but it just slays me. And it's made all the more powerful (and relatable) by the fact that we - the audience - can't really get a good read on…

Wrong thread for a New Pornographers reference, brah.

When I heard the announcement, I seriously considered obtaining a ticket to this event, taking a couple of vacation days from work, and buying a round-trip ticket to NYC just to see the event. Sadly, my better judgment kicked in, and I realized how crazy expensive that would be, and how little money is in my bank…

Great. Now I'm crying at work.