What baffles me is that Lopez barely seems to be trying to be funny.  It's like he's taking the "host" part of the job REALLY seriously and forgetting that "comedian" is why he's there in the first place.  If you can't be funny, why host this show?

What baffles me is that Lopez barely seems to be trying to be funny.  It's like he's taking the "host" part of the job REALLY seriously and forgetting that "comedian" is why he's there in the first place.  If you can't be funny, why host this show?

Re: Fall Out Boy, isn't "Champagne for My Real Friends, Real Pain for My Sham Friends" a pop culture reference?  It's a line from 25th Hour.

Re: Fall Out Boy, isn't "Champagne for My Real Friends, Real Pain for My Sham Friends" a pop culture reference?  It's a line from 25th Hour.

Oh, come on, guys.  The UK version of Take Me Out is hilarious.  It knows EXACTLY what it is and doesn't try to hide behind "true love" like, say, The Bachelor, which when you get right down to it is basically an extended version of Take Me Out in which everyone gets to go to the Isle of Fernando's every week. …

Oh, come on, guys.  The UK version of Take Me Out is hilarious.  It knows EXACTLY what it is and doesn't try to hide behind "true love" like, say, The Bachelor, which when you get right down to it is basically an extended version of Take Me Out in which everyone gets to go to the Isle of Fernando's every week. …

This will make him much easier to ignore, so I approve.

It's a fair point.  Futurama has suffered from diminishing returns since coming back.  Family Guy went from being relatively amusing to being so disastrously unfunny that it rendered the initial run worse in hindsight.  We always want more, but it definitely often ends up a case of being careful what you wish for.

Big McLargeHuge.

I know the relationship is different, but am I the only one who almost immediately thought of Herb Powell?

Although it's hard to imagine a Snow Crash movie.  That book is so incredibly dense that any attempt to translate it to the screen seems like it could not help but yield a thoroughly pale imitation.  Maybe it's better to just have the book.

See every cop movie ever made for other examples of this!

Although it probably was product placement, that doesn't *necessarily* follow - you might want to change it just so these other audiences would get the joke.  If the joke is that the shittiest fast food place won, it's not going to be that funny to people who don't have that fast food place and have never heard of…

Glad to see the Essex Green get a mention.  Cannibal Sea is one of my very favorite albums of its decade.

There's a joke from one of the more recent episodes where, IIRC, Nelson tells Bart and Lisa to "get a room" or something like that.  When Lisa replies, annoyed, "We're brother and sister," Milhouse pipes up, "So are my parents… I think."

Despite the second sentence of the review, I found Elizabethtown quite easy to dislike.

Armond White, is that you???

This is kind of already what Studio 60 was.  Matthew Perry's character was, from what I remember, a pretty unsubtle fictionalization of Sorkin right down to the substance abuse and the "return in glory" to the network that had pushed him out years earlier.

Well, they did break up in the sense that Mercer apparently fired everyone else who *used* to be in the band, so if it was Jesse Sandoval's drumming that you really enjoyed, sorry. Mercer is the only original band member left at this point but he was also the face and main creative force of the band so it's not clear…

I can't believe
that Benedict Cumberbatch is a real dude and not a name made up by The Simpsons or Eddie Izzard.