The Jake the Snake segment from Beyond the Mat was pretty much the writing prompt that led to The Wrestler. If we're looking for something fresh and inventive, let's make a sequel to the remake of The Stepfather and integrate the Chris Benoit story! Our Lady Peace can arrange the score! It's Oscar bait if I've ever…

My favorite moment was seeing Jack Bauer hail a taxi. Every cabby in the city must have simultaneously felt their bowels quiver and the immediate need to pull over. Those little glimpses into how he goes about his everyday things really fill me in on how all of his untelevised days must play out—like "WAITRESS! I…

They couldn't save someone this week because it was the "Everyone else made it!" week for the tour. If this week they tell Mexican Gokey he's getting a regular paycheck for a year, but then they decide to save Paige, and then next week he tries to crap out "On Bended Knee" with an acoustic guitar and gets the…

Tim Urban sucks pretty hard, but you got to feel bad for a guy who probably realized very suddenly during the Top 24 that he was out of his league, and now thanks to some mischevious VFTW site he's made it to the top 12 and is forced to bomb at arena after arena for the next million years. Make him forget his pants…

"It just sucked … the air out of the room."

Simon
I think it's very possible that you and Simon were indeed sharing one brain tonight, judging by his moving pep talk at the beginning:

It's not porn, per se. Just eighty minutes (give or take) of ultimate intimacy.

Agreed. When bossman walked into the interrogation room I thought he was going to stumble onto a sleeping Sigourney Weaver.

The Barf Family
I can't get my head around that Cleveland Show gag. Was it one of those regular old gags where a tv character watches a tv show and it's supposed to be funny because the show-in-the-show is ridiculously one-note? Because if it WAS that kind of gag … do the makers of the Cleveland show realize that…

I'll have to rest assured that ESPN's Tilt has been saved for the Best Of. And that other one … the one where they must protect a house.

Oh dear god, yes. Abby Elliot is muh guhfrend.

Columbus Day Marathon
BBT wins the week for the Gremlins jokes alone. Hearing my favorite stuff being referenced in other things makes me giddy … but also kind of nervous, in that someone might try to make part 3 before I get a chance to.

The tragic part is, Johhny 5 will make his triumphant return and all anyone will say is that he's a WALL-E ripoff.

Tom Collinses are delicious! They put orange slices in them! Orange!

This should go over much better than that Ellen DeFenestrate fiasco.

Gaaaay, question maaaaark?
Anybody else look at the bearded dude at the dick-hugger table and think Jim Gaffigan got way too fat?

I'll second the Stepfather recommendation. Any movie that's got TOQ's wang in the first thirty seconds is worth a watch.