My family had one of the first ones on the block in '83 or so… Beta! [cue sad trumpet].

I look at my boss and I'm like, Who. Would. Fuck. You!?

I only saw a brief piece on TV about Google several months ago, but it struck me that, rather than being a "paradise," it seemed the company was trying to blur the line between its workers' work lives and their personal lives.

Thanks for the responses. Yes, that pretty much reinforces what I thought.

If anyone cares to answer, gonna throw a question out to anyone who's worked in restaurants:

I thought much of "Waiting…" was crude and stupid, but it did really capture the daily life of a server.

I was roommates with a buddy who had a really sincere love for "A Christmas Story." We were watching during one of those marathons, and I mentioned how interesting a career the director had had (he was dead by then; a bit of outrage for Bill O'Reilly). My friend didn't follow such things; he just knew he really liked…

Now that's Pynchon-ian!

LIES! NO MORE LIES!

The dust-cleaner girl seems to be the one everyone remembers, but for sheer bat-shit I don't think you could beat the Asian woman who was addicted to prescription pain-killer lollipops and would lay on her lawn doing crotch crunches… She was so messed up that her drug addiction actually seemed like one of the more…

Picked up "Core" shortly after it was released (the much different "Sex Type Thing" was the only song released from it, at the time), and I was instantly enamored with the album from beginning to end. I became an advocate for the band, which I realized - the more the general music-going public became familiar with…

An English teacher looking down on "un-employeds"? That's rich.

See you next Wednesday at your manslaughter trial, Mr. Landis.

I'm not surprised by the "my job is to entertain people" line… It's just makes sense that if you would do something this fucking stupid and not see what the big deal is that you probably would have an inflated - nay, delusional - sense of self-importance.

I feel similarly (damn you, steady job!). For years I've sought out anything written about this episode, from Nathan Rabin to TIME's James Poniewozik.

Not only does this episode manage to be one of the funniest Simpsons while being so dark, but it really says something about American society (in this case a deserved statement).

Everyone (well, not literally everyone) is always commenting on the "classic" lineup of GBV, which I guess would be evidenced by "Bee Thousand," "Alien Lanes," etc.

That intro shows how the '90s was - weird as they were - a more innocent time.

"The Hunt" is a rather flawed episode (Zicree's book does a good job of explaining how even many of the show's insiders thought so). However, as a dog lover, it'll always have a place in my heart. Just a week ago I was watching YouTube clips of the Aw-shucks revelation (i.e., "A man will walk into Hell with both eyes…

Good points one and all… but I bet they had to winnow it down a lot.