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I lived in NYC when the late-lamented Thalia Theatre would have weekly cartoon programs on Monday nights (programmed by Jerry Beck), and I'll never forget an entire auditorium shouting that "runabout" line at the tops of their demented minds. Me too.

Man, even reading everyone's REACTIONS to this is cracking me up…

This may indeed be The Greatest Looney Toon Ever Made, but if I'm picking The Funniest, it's gotta go to Freleng's "Little Red Riding Rabbit." The pace, the absurdity of the gags, the voice work ("Oh yeah? Yeah! Cut that out! Put on your old grey bonnet…" "— TA HAVE!") - it dissolves me, every time.

Didn't you post the exact same comment on Indiewire, with emojis?

I imagine so, considering she's not the captain of the ship in the title of the show.

So how much time DOES Michelle Yeoh get in this show?

I'm not familiar with her work, so when I first heard her name my ridiculous mind leapt to the old sitcom "Family Affair," where a child actor named Johnnie Whittaker played a character named Jody. Amazing that I can remember crap like that when I can't recall the date of my parents' anniversary.

Still pulling for Dev Patel. Dashing, funny, intense, charismatic, and not white.

And the amazing thing is, if you turn the cover over there's still a pricetag sticker from Spencer Gifts.

This movie was such a pleasant surprise. I liked the idea that the partnership was reluctant, and they were always trying to outdo one another. So I do hope they do another, but they jump ahead a few years so the U.N.C.L.E.-ness of it is more prominent (maybe even have HQ still under construction, and they're

The one that got me was the extreme wide shot of Mike waiting by his car on the right, an open warehouse building filling up the frame on the left, and then, after a long pause, the faintest glimmer of headlights reflected in the windows. That, and the multiple layers of image, focus, and reflection as Mike was

I do understand that Chuck wanted Ernesto to hear the tape - devious smile and all - but honestly, how could he guarantee that the "play" button would be accidentally engaged?

I just got the sense that he drove directly to the junkyard from the desert. I suppose he could have gone home first and put the rifle away, but the timeline seemed more urgent than that.

What happened to Mike's rifle in the back of the Caprice?

Forgive me if I don't look through the 521 comments below to see if someone else said this, but damn, props to the new cinematographer and the several truly glorious shots that he and Gilligan staged in this episode. Nobody on television does extreme wide shots better.

I half-expected Scarlett Johansson to show up in the "Sectional Sofas" sketch - "Look at these, are you kidding? Take that one! Or that one! Or that one! Or that one!"

Which touches on my irritation when the show fades in to roaring applause for no reason. Bobby Moynihan stands behind a podium and gets a whooping ovation before the sketch even starts.

I'll never forget this appreciation of him, and I wish I could attribute it: "the greatest actor of his peers to have NEVER received an Oscar nomination."

I remember really loving "Without Limits," despite its forgettable title that must have been used because of the other Prefontaine movie - Crudup's magnetic, but Donald Sutherland is almost as good as he was in "Ordinary People."

I don't know if anyone else remembers this, but when I was a kid there were live-action segments with Walter Lantz during "The Woody Woodpecker Show," as he explained fundamentals of animation. And this issue came up. "Cartoon characters have four fingers. Why? I don't know." Points for honesty, Walt.