I'd go on a limb and say the Sopranos is much more of a dark comedy than a drama, anyway.

For me the Wire was a more solid experience overall (though it did have some awful mis-steps, especially when they made "ghetto superheroes" like Brother Mouzone or that lesbian biker out of a Tarantino film), but it never reached the artistic highs the Sopranos reached with some of its best episodes. "The Pine…

It's definitely, 100% a 90s thing. This is 1996 after all, a very awkward time when computers were still for office workers and nerds, right before everyone had to have an emachine and an AOL account of their very own. If you just would have said "solitaire" most viewers would have imagined Matthew spreading an…

It's a Google site. If there's a problem seeing it, it would have to be on your end. Maybe you live in China?

Cult=two drunk townies who saw the movie a couple of times on Starz and occasionally recite lines to each other, usually inaccurately.

They're almost impossible to read, but I think the nearly complete run is here:

Re. "Deep Thoughts for the Uninspired"
First, it's Jack Handey, not Handy. That's his real name, he's a pretty great writer and contributed "Deep Thoughts" to the legendary Army Man magazine long before they were on SNL.

No rape joke has ever topped that one line in Blazing Saddles.

Yeah, that Carrie is a horrible narrator and just an awful, awful columnist. I can't believe the New York Post or whoever was running it was (evidently, judging by her lifestyle) paying her seven figures to write that crap.

Also, regarding Annie Hall… I think it's more about the type of woman Duvall was playing. She was a vapid hipster quoting Dylan lyrics like they were profound poetry, which would be pretty commonplace at the time (and probably something that drove a guy like Allen up the wall.)

I don't remember the Goldfinger quote but… It was a 1964 movie, two years before Revolver and three before Sgt. Pepper. The Beatles were still a pop group who had yet to hit their peak and certainly not the deities and demigods they are today. And, despite being a drunken womanizer, Connery's Bond was a pretty…

My favorite use of a song in a commercial was "Fortunate Son", I think it was in an Abercrombie ad (or similar clothing line for asshole preppies.)

You could probably get Dame Judy Dench or some other old British woman to say she's Rod Stewart and no one would be the wiser.

SPOILERS!

I think the problem was they made a super-surreal show out of a comic strip that's basically about how mind-numbing and banal corporate culture is. (Yeah, there's flights of fancy in the strip, but that's all the show was. At least as far as I can remember, it's been a while.)

At least she doesn't have toe thumbs

Well, I'd say Southland had some roots in Hill Street Blues as well.

I've seen Justified mentioned twice now.. That ain't a "procedural." It's just a good old fashioned cop/detective show. It's got a lot more in common with Rockford Files or Hawaii Five O than L&O or CSI.

There's a reason "old people" like shows like L&O so much. They have a set pattern that they follow every week, they're self contained (so you can miss episodes), they're basically safe and not very challenging. Yes, that's not adventurous, but it's television for people who aren't seeking that. Watching a…

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Fuck, for the first time since I got that N64 to play Goldeneye, I got the urge to buy a console just so I can play this.