Personally I think Griffin lucked out on Peacecraft that so many people wanted to pitch in that it became a weird exercise in team management.

I suspect it's that Seeso found the AV Club's favourite two dozen comedians and podcasters and gave them all TV shows.

That's true though it's not really the character's fault. She has the same burden as Futurama's Leela, that of being the hyper-competent woman being surrounded by idiot goofballs. In something resembling the real world that'd make her the only character worth caring about, but in a comedy that too often means that…

It's fascinating to go back and watch the first handful of episodes.

IIRC, Barry was an uptight, slightly prickish straight man when he was first introduced. Only the infrequent references to "Other Barry" hinted at the chaos beneath that calm facade.

I enjoy the running gag—or maybe just the regrettable reality—that all the female characters are perfectly aware that he's a puerile manchild, but he's just so goddamn handsome and occasionally badass that they still reluctantly want to fuck him.

*On the telephone

"Go fuck yourself!"
"Hmm. 'Go fuck yourself'. Well, you never know what's going to be up on the big board! Let's see, 'Go fuck yourself!'"
[BLAM]

I'm okay with this. The first movie was middling, the second was somewhat better. Incredible production design was consistently let down by weak dialogue and uninteresting plots.

Archer's spontaneous "Family Feud"-themed interrogation of the Irish gangsters (as well as the Honduran janitorial staff) is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Yeah, Pam's cocaine addiction got very old, very quickly. Also, when the running gag is the gang losing more and more of the cocaine with every episode, what little narrative tension there is gets deflated fast.

I wish they'd committed to the "Vice" thing, really. All the promo stuff suggested that it would be a full Miami makeover. It wouldn't surprise me if the "1947 private eye" thing they're doing now is half-based on the realization that they missed an opportunity there.

Respectfully, to me it's ridiculous to assert that Bob sounds almost nothing like Archer. They sound almost exactly alike, the energy level is just a little different.

Yep. I've been told by straight-faced midwesterners that "people always focus on the bad parts of slavery."

Yep. I've been told by straight-faced midwesterners that "people always focus on the bad parts of slavery."

Say what you will about Hitchens, but he would have reduced Milo to a smear of greasy ash on the wall.

I think he wanted to turn them into gold, for whatever reason.

Ah, the Gish Gallop. "I made fourteen assertions and you only refuted five of them! I win 14-5!"

Prophetically, Paul Anka's guarantee was void in Tennessee.

As a Packers fan who still bears the scars of the 2014 NFC Championship game, I feel for you. Watching a series of one- and two-percent chances all happen, one after another, to strip away a victory that was so close you could taste it, well … the pain never completely goes away. But it fades.