I just read "Franny & Zooey" (I'm 22), and found that it tapped into everything I USED to be, just a couple years ago. If I had discovered it at 19, I'm sure it would have changed my life, but now it just sounds like Franny's working through issues I'd already navigated on my own.

I'm happy to see some love for "Finding Nemo." I think it's Pixar's funniest, most honest, most heartwarming film — and every single frame is absolutely gorgeous — but I can never seem to find anyone who agrees.

@Last!

Yeah, I remember reading that one of the most heartbreaking storylines in the whole series—when Neil tests the garage-door opener around his neighborhood to uncover his dad's adultery—actually happened to Feig. I guess you really can't write that.

Freaks and Geeks is a masterpiece of television, period.

Martin Starr was brilliant on that show.

Honestly, as much as I love hearing about comedians' creative processes and points of view and all that, what really got me in this interview was his insistence on raising his children, priority numero uno, above even a chance to make himself a star. Definitely a class act, "cunt"s be damned.

I think I counted three different times that I couldn't believe I was still reading.

@elim The first time that Homer was smarter than in the previous season? What, as a counter to the fan theory, proven in "138th Episode Spectacular," that Homer gets dumber every season?

Haha, yeah, he's Mr. Feeny. For some reason, I find it less surreal to see Mr. Feeny as John Adams than it is to see Mr. Feeny as Benjamin's dad in "The Graduate."

1776
Nice to see "1776" in here. It's my favorite musical, if only because it manages to incorporate American History into one of the most tongue-in-cheek and yet unabashedly traditional musicals ever, and I always use it as an example of musical theatre at its most accessible.

Sounds like a good read, but…
Does every great comedian have to have a quirky, messed-up childhood? I should just give up my own hopes of a career, as my memoir would mostly just be about how I took a nap every day after school and played too many videogames.

But that whole season was all about how they WEREN'T just two coworkers hooking up. Casey might have felt that way, but Henry was pretty insistent on his building feelings for her.

Are you all crazy?
I found a copy of Andy Rooney's "Common Nonsense" at a local book sale for $4, and it is by far the best purchase I have ever made. As the man gets older, he just gets funnier and funnier. I suppose it's mostly unintentional, but some of the things he writes is the most hysterically mundane bullshit…

Yeah, the movie sounds hysterical. Little Austria—oh, man.

"Well, people kept ringing the bell!"

Watching him with those eyes…
I would personally submit Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl"

Great catch on the funeral pyres!

"And my axe!"
Hey, was anyone else hoping that all FOUR of the castaways would have chosen to protect the island, together? Live together, die alone…

One-Season Story
I'm intrigued, Noel, by your question "Why'd the story have to play out this way?"