The reason why I'm pissed off at him isn't because he made a metric shitload of money cycling, but because his cheating is making cycling look bad, and cycling is fucking excellent for numerous reasons: it makes people healthier, uses less fossil fuels, gets people out of their glass-and-steel cages for a little…

EbolaSARS is too much of a CancerAIDS wannabe; I'd vote for Ebolapolio, though.

@avclub-f80aa233184527ebd7b36f7a59cf2e4e:disqus : They're not that bad, but really nothing special. Dave's trying to compete directly with his former bandmates without sounding anything like them, and has to fall back on the videos because he's a clown much more than a musician.

Ditto. Really weird hearing DLR without most of his vocal tics, though.

Has anyone mentioned anti-comedian Neil Hamburger?

I enjoy my iPhone quite often, in ways that has Siri muttering darkly about restraining orders.

I hadn't seen that "One Shoe Emma" sketch, but it's pretty good, with Oprah Winfrey essentially making fun of her own short-lived acting career. Also, of course, because Robert Downey Jr. is playing one of the hicks. (And, you know, I have no love for the latter-day Dennis Miller, but boy does whoever wrote the review…

"Mr. Belvedere Fan Club" is great, because at first it just seems like just another (if somewhat unlikely) fandom gathering, but then the incomparable Phil Hartman takes it through a sharp left turn into Psycholand with his "exercise" that he does not want "to tear the flesh, to wear the flesh, to be born into new…

These group efforts inevitably display the results of at least one contributor not really being that familiar with the show, but wanting to pitch in something. IMO.

Odenkirk and Cross have been interviewed by the AV Club so often, together and separately, that the interviews put together may be longer than the collective transcript of all Mr. Show episodes.

John Colicos, aka Kor from Star Trek TOS, had no competition as the original Baltar from that weedy long-haired guy. The others, well…

"Bisected" is probably what he meant.

IKR? "Beat Hitler in the face with a Louisville Slugger or miss out on a delicious banana split." Sheesh, what a moral and ethical dilemma.

I want that movie so bad.

See, when you say Starbuck only Dirk Benedict comes to mind.

Honestly, it's not that Slott is the worst Spidey writer ever, but he's been given some unappealing editorial mandates (BND, Carlie Cooper as about the most blatant Canon Sue imaginable, etc.) and also been saddled with numerous gimmicks to drive up sales (new costumes, variant covers); on top of that, he's played the…

@avclub-9b60cf1b2106f886f17cba2b1a0359b9:disqus : I think that "Demon in a Bottle" holds up reasonably well. Not a lot had been done characterization-wise with Tony up to that point, IMO, and he really went through the wringer—besides the alcoholism, there was an attempted takeover of Stark by SHIELD (Nick Fury didn't…

The later alcoholism storyline was the work of Dennis O'Neil, best known for his work with Neil Adams in the late sixties. Although some people like his work in the eighties (particularly with the revised Question), I think that his glory days were well behind him by the time he got around to IM, and there's this air…

This. I don't think that the Cronenberg film was as well-known as the Sorkin TV series, but I used to wonder if people watching President Bartlet on the latter delivering a fine, Sorkin-crafted monologue would ever remember President Stillson telling the old guy that if he didn't unlock the nuclear launch codes, he'd…

I'd say that Leaving Las Vegas is, if anything, anti-romanticized, which is why Cage got an Oscar and Shue got nominated.