I laughed many times during tonight's episode. It's a different laugh than I'm used to in most comedies, though. When Pamela confessed her fantasy of hitting her child, I laughed, but not because it was a funny joke — rather because it was surprising and yet somehow so organic that I couldn't help but be delighted by…

Is it too late to mention how "Watch Us Have Sex" is the sketch I've always been thinking of whenever Leonard praises Mr. Show's particular brand of comic escalation? That sketch starts out relatively tame but somehow finds its way to Bob's exquisite "It's not FOR YOU," which wraps everything together in perfect,…

Oh mercy me, how embarrassed am I.

No, no, no, that was shite! Pure shite!

Genius
Fuzz: The Musical episode has the (second) most-quoted moment among me and my friends:

That "fart gun" gag in the trailer pretty much convinced me not to see the movie, but then again it IS a kids' movie and farts are still new and exciting to them.

Shouts & Murmurs is atrocious.

I can't recall a movie in recent memory that insulted my intelligence as an audience member more than Avatar.

Yeah, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who doesn't consider "Jurassic Bark" a landmark episode of Futurama.

Again Swartzwelder's knack for defying expectations, having a military memorabilia salesman have lost his arm in such a non-military fashion.

"…President of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance, for some reason…"

I would imagine (though I have no real knowledge whatsoever) that the writing credit goes to the guy who pitched the idea, who then works on the script initially, workshops it with the staff, and comes up with the revisions.

My whole justification to myself was: try to figure out what the ending MEANS, not what you WANTED the ending to be. Interpret it for what it IS.

This is comforting. A bunch of my hipster friends swear by "McSweeney's," but every time I've tried to read it I've found it excruciating. Humor writing — and comedy in general, really — should not have to be high-concept.

I went with some friends to the second-run movie theatre in town, just because we were bored, and the only movie playing at the time was "Scary Movie 4." Tickets were $1.50. The box office girl shook her head and said, "Just pay a quarter." Oh, how she pitied us.

For a fun thought experiment, watch 2 1/2 Men sans laugh track!

Wow. I tried to hold back my opinion by calling it "lame" but no, you're pretty on the mark.

That reminds me: Recently, a group of friends and I wanted to go to the movies, and I desperately wanted to see "Toy Story 3," but I was outvoted, so we saw "Get Him to the Greek" instead.

Technical issues or no, I sort of agree that the oil scene was at least inspired enough to make it entertaining. Maybe it wasn't viscerally satisfying, but it was enough to make you say, "Cool!"

I remember practically falling in love with the cute Hawaiian girl who sat next to me in class. One fateful die I saw her on the bus back from the mall, and she looked so excited to get back home to watch the "Garden State" DVD she just bought.