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The best thing about Elizabethtown was the festival poster Paul Schneider's character is proudly displaying. I named my first iPod after "A Reggae Tribute to Tom Petty."

I was waiting for "YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY SIR!"

I was waiting for "YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY SIR!"

Chevy as Pierce < Patrick Stewart as Pierce < Patrick Stewart stealing the cast and making the show he pitched on "Extras."

Chevy as Pierce < Patrick Stewart as Pierce < Patrick Stewart stealing the cast and making the show he pitched on "Extras."

I hear the new show takes place in the "Freaks & Geeks" universe and is filled with flashbacks to the episodes they kept secretly filming throughout the 2000s. I just hope they skip all the terrible Marti Noxon episodes from season 8. Millie's volunteer work with the Pat Robertson campaign just wasn't interesting.

I hear the new show takes place in the "Freaks & Geeks" universe and is filled with flashbacks to the episodes they kept secretly filming throughout the 2000s. I just hope they skip all the terrible Marti Noxon episodes from season 8. Millie's volunteer work with the Pat Robertson campaign just wasn't interesting.

In retaliation, the next Tim Burton movie will have Kumar Pallana and both Wilson brothers.

In retaliation, the next Tim Burton movie will have Kumar Pallana and both Wilson brothers.

So season 4 of "Community" is New Order? I can live with that.

So season 4 of "Community" is New Order? I can live with that.

The Downey/Cusack scene was from the Francis Ford Coppola show, which deserves to be featured in A Very Special Episode sometime. SNL got a lot better almost immediately, but that was really the show's last gasp of experimentalism.

The Downey/Cusack scene was from the Francis Ford Coppola show, which deserves to be featured in A Very Special Episode sometime. SNL got a lot better almost immediately, but that was really the show's last gasp of experimentalism.

His Ad-Rock was uncanny, which was shocking.

His Ad-Rock was uncanny, which was shocking.

I just hope I can afford those and Ten The Hard Way.

I just hope I can afford those and Ten The Hard Way.

There was a dip in Season 4 (those hour-longs to start off the season are brutal), but the fifth season might be my favorite stretch of the series.

There was a dip in Season 4 (those hour-longs to start off the season are brutal), but the fifth season might be my favorite stretch of the series.

I can't think of anyone else in SNL's history who's followed Kristin Wiig's path: Dominate the show with one-note, unfunny mugging, then become an even bigger star in the movies by doing the opposite.