I feel like the twins' names are a carryover from one of the original through-lines of the show, which has only been intermittently explored — Dre's sense that his family life has brought him too far from what it means to be "truly black." (I.e. how can he pretend to be a hard-core Stokely Carmichael type when he has…

I can think of at least half a dozen shows that hooked me with the pilot. Farscape, Don't Trust the Bitch in Apt. 23, The Middleman, Better Off Ted, Deadwood, Terriers, Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law, etc. etc.

I honestly don't understand why people don't like Marco Polo. I liked it just fine. I'm excited for more.

Poor, poor Michael Roffman. I warned him that if Metalocalypse could somehow generate 61 episodes, this show could muster at least half that many — leaving out difficult-to-copy plotlines such as the band reviving a hideous lake troll in Finland or double-booking gigs in Israel and Syria and bringing the countries to…

Didn't like the improv bits in Rixty Minutes, didn't like the improv bits here. Did like Morty's rant about how society would be better off if, rather than tearing down the work of creative people who don't cater to our particular sensibilities, we all took some goddamn responsibility for our own emotions and just…

I am 100% on board with the Fred Melamed resurgence. His bearish physique and resonant voice always bring the funny. In a different world where Daredevil is a Broadway musical, he's my choice to play the Kingpin.

Not to crush your dreams, but Algernon was the mouse. (He died.) Nat Faxon could be Charly, if that's OK.

My caption on that Vikings 'gram is: "The first string is inconsolable after new equipment manager Jim "Goofy" VanDenGoof's last-minute decision to switch laundry detergents shrank their favorite white jerseys. Oh, Goofy…"

Steve Rannazzisi is a pretty lucky guy. First he survives the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in dramatic fashion, then the news about how that story was all a lie manages to drop on the same day a stupid school administrator in Texas humiliates a young Muslim boy out of sheer racism, more or less. We all…

And if there's one company I count on to be a moral pole star in this benighted universe of solipsistic hedonism, it's the good people of Buffalo Wild Wings.

That's actually Comedy Central's sweet spot for new stand-up specials. Saturday is their "go cheap or go home" night.

Jersey (football, not New) Nerd says:

"Reach Down" is my least favorite, but still quite listenable. That whole album is a masterpiece of first-generation grunge.

It's pretty damn good, all right. And the more I listen to "Live To Rise", the more I like that one as well.

He's spoken about it before; there's actually a fairly detailed Wikipedia article about the song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

I always found Soundgarden songs really frustrating as a journeyman rock 'n roll rhythm guitar/vocalist because you really had to practice them — a lot — to sound acceptable. I could fumble my way through 3-4 Ozzy or Dio or AC/DC tracks in the same amount of time it took to learn how to play and sing "Outshined" or…

I have trouble picking a favorite, but if pressed I'll usually go for "Tighter and Tighter", partly because it's the only Soundgarden song I can think of that ends with that very rock 'n roll-type ending, where they just hammer away on the final note for 4-5 seconds and let it drop with a thud.

"4th of July" and "Jesus Christ Pose" trade off days as my favorite Soundgarden song of all time.

The whole thing is a metaphor for teachers being unable to protect their charges by providing real, fact-based sex education rather than abstinence-only crap promoted by prudish school boards and the right-wing huckster-education complex, right?

Having been mugged by nostalgia, I recently bought the complete series of Wizards and Warriors on DVD, and one of that show's cheesier gimmicks is to go to each commercial break on a freeze-frame that turns into a comic-book-style illustration.