If I recall correctly (and it's been a long time), every piece of music in the movie is Queen — a car drives by, and it's playing something from the soundtrack, etc. It seems to take place in a world where there's only Queen. Because there can be only one.

No. Marcel is objectively awful.

I watched the last 20 minutes of an episode of this and . . . was amused. There, I said it. I was somewhat drunk.

I love fun and am quite sane. I've also generally enjoyed this show — I'm not one of those who's always complaining about how it has gone downhill, or always sucked, etc. (I loved last week — drunk Jim and Pam was awesome!) But Michael's bad movie was not funny bad, it was bad bad, boring bad. I felt like I was…

Yeah. I'm actually shocked at all the positive response here. That felt like the longest episode of The Office ever — longer than any of the hour-long ones.

Generally I find the range of personality types pretty interesting on the competitive reality shows, and try to take into account that the editing and the pressure they're under tends to accentuate everyone's irritating tendencies. But Marcel, . . . I guess the thing that really makes me see red is when, under fire,…

Loved this at age 8
I think I watched this in its original run, when I was a space-crazy 70s kid.

That's the finest thing I've heard in months.

Ken Marino
Ken "Ron Donald" Marino.

I've been saying for months that there should be a Party Down move in which the crew caters the premiere party for the new Judd Apatow movie from which Casey's scene was cut. Awkward! Apatow and all the actors he uses (aside from the ones who were actually in Party Down) could play themselves. They could probably rope…

Catered by Party Down
The film should center around a disastrous party Rudd and Mann throw catered by Henry, Ron, Roman, and the rest of the Party Down crew.

Milford. It's the sticks out here.

Some of this was filmed here in my town in Connecticut
They did a few days of filming at a local bar, and apparently Pacino ate dinner at the Italian place across the street. The local newspaper ran this banner headline on the first page: "Al Pacino pleased with local pasta dish."

I don't think it's been brought up. Does she still have Fauxlivia's implanted memories? I'd think that stuff would be important. Maybe it'll just get brought up again at some point if it comes in handy, plot-wise.

He looked like even more of a dirtball when he was a cop!

It's rare that a show can build an episode around such clear thematic parallels and not make it seem forced and artificial. I thought they did an amazing job. It all fits together like a well-designed puzzle AND it's revealing about the characters and their relationships. The "case of the week" ties in to Hank's…

Along with everything else that was so satisfying about this episode, Gustafson finally came alive. In the past he just seemed like kind of a dick, but now it's a bit more clear why he came off that way.

Well there you have it! I guess I could have recognized that, but the version knocking around in my head is the chunky Moog version from Switched-On Bach.

What I meant to say was, it sounded classical, not baroque.

Yeah, that bugged me. It was orchestral, not organ, probably from 80 or 100 years later. I'm no expert, but it sounded more like Mozart than Bach.