"she wasn’t just in it for the snark. As she explained in an episode of the podcast 99% Invisible, the blog is primarily a means for her, a student of architecture, to demonstrate the un-sustainability of such garishness. McMansions are often built with aesthetics in mind, with little thought given to the functional…

More likely it's his way of saying, 'Remember how some of Han's more memorable lines in the original films were improvised?" as a retort to anti-improv directives reportedly contributing to his and Lord's departure from the current project.

I'll not sit by idly while you slander snicker doodles, sir.

I don't think the intended meaning there is that teenagers can't be clever, but that the bar for "cited by the president as a source of political commentary" should be higher.

Fuck you and your brand, kid.

I think there are cases where "weird" can be useful in setting up the conversation. Like pretty much any other qualitative judgment though, people too often throw it out there as the whole of the conversation.

Maher's show would improve drastically if it would dispense with the comedy bits and stick to just interview and panel discussion. I'm sure Maher would still manage to be a douche from time to time, but he wouldn't have the opportunity to wallow in it as much.

See my reply to Adam Bernstein. First pass didn't turn up anything confirming Berg as a showrunner, so I went the comparison route among the EPs. Searching again before responding to AB turned up the article you just linked.

"completely debunked" might be overstating: they got a day pass, not a full-time press credential. Jones left out the one-day restriction when talking about it, of course.

Erlich was such a consummate bullshit peddler that he even peddled bullshit to himself.

Animal sauce. If it can make In-N-Out's abysmal fries bearable, imagine what it could do with decent fries!

Ketchup is perfectly acceptable for use by adults. Just not on hot dogs.

Upon further digging, Alec Berg is a co-showrunner along with Judge, and Tarver is getting promoted to exec producer and co-showrunner for season 5 as both Judge and Berg are working on other projects.

I put my phone in my front pocket all the time.

Berg is one of a half dozen executive producers on the show with directing credit on 9 episodes and writing credit on 5. For comparison, Judge has directing credit on 15 eps, and Amy Aniobi has writing credit on 10 (Judge, Altschuler, and Krinsky get writing credits on all episodes as co-creators. Point being, Alec…

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I get the feeling that he and Middleditch have very different goals professionally and that could potentially be a source of friction, but he does mention that the two of them did a decade-long improv act and compares their relationship to a "big brother/little brother." But then he goes through the other main casts'…

The Robert Shaw Method.

Shit, that Eve Online comparison is apt and I'm going to steal it.

Bill Nighy as Viktor might as well be goddamn Shakespeare compared to Bill Nighy as Naberius in I, Frankenstein