It does feel a lot like the same shtick as latter-day Jon Stewart Daily Show episodes: direct quote followed by hamming to the camera. Definitely not on the level of Full Frontal. More like Satire Lite.

Does anyone else think Baldwin's impression is terrible? It checks the "WHOOO OMG it's movie star Alec Baldwin doing an impression" box but aside from being kind of pandering it's not particularly accurate or funny.

I haven't re-watched this episode in a long time so I'm sure it doesn't compare to the depths of depravity the characters eventually sink to but as someone who watched the show from almost the beginning, I think The Gang Gets Racist is a pretty perfect intro into the world of Sunny.

You think Tarheels invented Pee Dee-style vinegar BBQ sauce?

Serious answer: my friend was in this episode. The show sent out a press release to some of the local Charleston media asking for audience members for episodes and she literally just sent them an email. That's how she became a "Top Chef Superfan"!

Speaking as a former law school student, law school students are the worst.

While reading this review I was reminded of the line from (living) Spinal Tap drummer Mick Shrimpton: "As long as there's, you know, sex and drugs, I can do without the rock and roll."

Holy shit! I had completely forgotten this movie existed until just now. Having some jarring flashbacks to a Friday night trip to Blockbuster video followed by my group of friends' brief infatuation with the song Barbra Ann.

Steely Dan is one of my favorite bands of all time but I also can totally understand why someone would hate them.

I saw The Sixth Sense in theaters as a sixth grader and I can honestly say it's one of the few movies I've seen that absolutely terrified me. I was sitting near the very front of the theater on the end of the aisle and as the dread slowly built in the movie I felt more and more exposed.

I also was going to point out how that scene and Fleischer's performance works on a Usual Suspects-type rewatch level—when you see it a second time he really does come across as simultaneously ominous and benign.

You should power through the first few episodes because it's a great show.

Same with me. I had set the bar very low and the first half of the movie was pretty middling talking head stuff with a few chuckles here and there (Fred Willard interrogating the small person mascot) but when they started doing all the mascot routines in the competition I was consistently cracking up!

This was actually pretty amazing!! The awkwardness is palpable even in transcript-form! Any other than Weird Al would've probably had no patience for this kid but he was able to still make the interview pretty funny. Everything I read about Al makes me think he might be the nicest most well-adjusted guy in showbiz.

I submitted this question and that was actually my choice too! Probably good they cut out my long-winded explanation of the scene and the song's effectiveness…

You should give it another try.

Those were my favorite episodes as well.

I logged in just to defend Conrad L. Hall as well!

One of my best friends and I ate a shit-ton of Cinnamon Toast Crunch one Summer and saved up enough box tops to get awesome glow-in-the-dark Johnny Quest t-shirts! I had literally forgotten about that until I read this!

But Heisenberg wears a hat and sunglasses and Mr. White doesn't…. Oh shit!! You're right!!