When I watched The Carol Burnett Show as a kid, The family sketches were some of my favorites and I thought they were really funny. Maybe I didn't put my finger on it at the time, but my reaction was probably due to how real it sounded to me coupled with the total lack of sentimentality. (As opposed to, say, The Brady…

"By the way, we have a tradition in my family where we let the child name itself."
"Oh, yeah, that's hippie nonsense."
"Absolutely not."
"Well, suit yourself, but my son Spider-Man turned out just fine."

Someone should raise David Seville from the dead so we can punch him in the face for creating the most obnoxious and earbleed inducing characters known to man, and somehow making them pop stars. Ugh.

Maybe a slight vibe, but the Little Britain guys seemed to really go in for grotesques a lot more than the Kids did.

Ah, I remember those days: when cassette was king and if you liked an album you just played the shit out of it from start to finish. Thank you Columbia House!

Yup. If we're eschewing best of's, Damn the Torpedoes and Hard Promises is a great one-two punch.

Cathy (Scott) and Kathie (Bruce).

Nah, to get this much attention she'd have to be palling around with- Oh, I don't know- the biggest actress in Hollywood or something.

What the hell is The Force supposed to be anyway? Some gigantic zen nudist colony?

If you type in that URL (I was bored, OK?) it redirects to the Amazon page for the season 2 DVD's. Please someone tell me I wasn't the only one who did this.

I enjoyed this episode very much. The A-story pleasantly surprised me, as it seemed kind of a hacky sitcom set-up, but they managed to hit some beats I did not expect. Gina and Amy are developing into a nice pair, and it was kind of cool that their friendship is to the point of them doing the presentation together…

NO BASS!

Hi, I'm Kevin McDonald. Or, as you might know me at home, "the Kid in the Hall we don't like.".

Agreed. For the most part, the Kids played their female characters sincerely and rarely camped it up while in drag. It was an amazingly bold approach to take when you think about it.

"Notice the mug to the audience. This indicates the punchline has been delivered…"

"Every time I come to this city, some guy picks me up at the bus station, takes me to a Leaf game, gets me pissed, then tries to blow me. Why can't people like me for me?"

"…when you rent a video, you enter into a sacred trust!"

SUUUUUUUUUUUCKS!!

The salty ham sketch is also one of my favorites. The astonishing thing about it is that it's about 7 minutes long, and Bruce and Scott actually create a convincing portrait of a long married couple. (They were recurring characters, but I believe "Salty Ham" was their first appearance.)

Not the memes! Not the memes!