This was, to me, the weakest episode of this season so far, but of course, that's just another way of saying it was fun, delightful, and made me laugh out loud only seven times instead of ten plus. (After the last three in a row it's only natural to have a perfectly good episode instead of a truly great one.) I also…

Sure, I bet they just ASSUMED that. If there's one thing Christopher Walken is known for, it's his incredibly standard speech patterns.

God I love that scene and it cannot be referenced enough.

And of course, lightning flashing crane shot over the top of an ornate gate. And for that matter the whole titles sequence, while not exactly a newsreel, is also a pretty obvious Kane homage in tone.

Totally with you. And of course your affection for the movie is understandable, because while it's unbelievably over-the-top, it's also very smart and is quoting and borrowing liberally from a lot of much better movies. My sibs and I regularly quote cheesy lines from "Dead Again":

Totally agree with this critique, but I just have to echo, having recently rewatched Henry V, holy shit that movie more than holds up. I do kind of wonder though if there's just a gendered dimension to how Branagh directed that whole movie. There's just scene after scene of male posturing and avowing and then…

The best worst American accent is Tom Wilkinson. Hands down. Falcone in Batman Begins truly is Bugs Bunny, while Dr. Mierzwiek in Eternal Sunshine sounds like an avuncular old cowboy who is recovering from a stroke.

I love how this movie is just larded with homages to Hitchcock and Welles. I remember when I finally did see "Citizen Kane" after obsessively watching "Dead Again" on VHS, those scenes with Cotten in the nursing home immediately rang a very loud bell for me.

Except there was a preponderance of physical and circumstantial evidence indicating OJ did it, and he later confessed that he did it in a book. I get your point, but maybe the OJ case isn't the best example of what you're saying. What makes the murder in Serial so intriguing is that it has very little hard or…

Go rewatch that scene. His only reasons were repeating the brand name, citing its cost, citing the specialness of his butthole, and talking about its "natural ingredients." He did not mention the actual legitimate issues with cheap sex toys. (And an $80 toy is probably a pretty good one, as Abbi points out!) His only…

Yeah, I'm not against conscious consumption per se. It's when it's taken to an extreme, and when a well-off person claims the thing they bought at three times the price was special and magic and thus they are special and magic for having it, while everyone else is just buying cheap crap. I'll confess that I have…

I feel like this was actually a great character episode. Sure, there were big laughs, but I loved it because it showed Abbi getting more sexually confident and it unveiled Ilana's family in all their glory. I also loved Nicole showing up in the sex store, as it was a nice rounding-out of the Broad City world, make it…

The idea of a custom-built dildo made one's own anus is JOKE, meant to satirize the preciousness of Jeremy. I'm amazed that there are people who think Jeremy's obsession with the dildo is worth defending. The point was he was a dick to a woman he just asked to indulge a varsity-level kink on the first date! And who…

I think the show's ultimate point was that 20-something Oprah-and-Gaga-loving Abbi who's pretty reserved about sex, and still feels she wants to master "regular sex," ultimately wasn't the greatest match for 30-something beer-making carpenter dude who is buying custom Japanese dildos. Different interests, life stages,…

I think the show is perfectly cool with the sex positive side of Jeremy, and critical of his bespoke preciousness. Because seriously, the dudes who are all into their home-made beer, and are endlessly rebuilding their bikes, and buying kimonos, fuck those guys. Getting obsessed with having the most elite artisinal…

Fair enough! No use arguing about taste. I'm a lot more forgiving if the song is good enough to make me want to rewatch it.

Though "Modern Seinfeld" on Twitter has it nailed. And 18th Century Seinfeld is pretty good too: "Jerry runs afoul of a malevolent butler. George goes wigless."

It didn't annoy you that "Snow Day" was almost exactly the same joke as "Christmas Office Party," only with a less catchy song? Or that both songs are basically the same joke ("juxtaposing street culture and rapping with middle class personalities and settings!") as "Lazy Sunday," a song-sketch that is now ten years…

You actually liked the Jebediah Atkinson jokes? Maybe it's just me, but I thought the whole humor of that character was that his jokes were hacky/obvious and it was more that a foppish anachronistic Victorian hater of popular culture was just a funny premise?

Unfortunately neither the cooked peanut butter or weed actually tastes that great—but it's not exactly bad either. However, plain good peanut butter + Ak-Mak crackers = Hell Yess.