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Greg Pikitis
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Is there an official concensus on how to spell Phoebe's nickname? This article goes with "Phebes," but I've also seen "Phoebes." Nothing looks right. "Pheebs," maybe? "Feebs?" Anyone seen a script (they published a book of those at some point, right)?

That's one thing they did well in both the original, and especially the Geoffery Rush remake—right from the start, each guest is given a .45 caliber pistol so it really ups the stakes: even if there turn out to be no ghosts, you know some of those dudes are just going to end up shooting each other accidentally.

I'm not normally one who cares about this kind of thing, but I'd love to know how it earned an R rating, especially considering that the target audience doesn't usually go in for that as much. Did they put a lot of F-bombs in there so it'll look less like a made-for-TV disaster?

I haven't but I'll be sure to check 'em out. So far I've just read the Easy Rawlins and the Fearless Jones ones. I've tried a couple of Mosely's one-off novels, though, and didn't really care for them, which kind of scared me off venturing too far from the Easy Rawlins universe.

Just got Little Green, the new Easy Rawlins book by Walter Mosely.

Probably the Dave Foley/Sean Hayes-voiced two-headed monster.

This is all true in the long run, but at this point in the series—the fifth episode—it's not entirely clear what Michael is capable of, which is what makes him seem like such a bully during the basketball game.

My favorite moment in "Hot Girl" is when Michael's trying to get some alone time with Amy Adams, and he says to Pam, "Is this your lunch, or was that earlier, when you were eating in the kitchen with those guys?" Such a dick move, and it was early enough in the show's run that Pam's look to the camera indicates that

Yeah, he's a 10-year-old boy, but he wields real power within the office. You can easily see him firing someone or forcing the warehouse staff to work on Saturday just because of a tantrum. He's the scary "wish it to the cornfield" kid from the "It's a Good Life" episode of the Twilight Zone.

I got a "Scrubs" notification for this? No, wait—I didn't.

"Okay, now I get it. It's 'www PERIOD google PERIOD com.'"

And Mountain Dew.

Oh, man, those two! Did the show ever address their "interloper" status, though? I feel like that season just started and everyone acted like Coy and Vance had been the stars all along.

Just thought of another—the charisma-free dude they brought on to replace Topher Grace on "That 70s Show."

I feel like a good take on this concept would be any time a series introduced a new character or set of characters in order to replace cast members who were leaving the show, and you were expected to like the new guys but instead you felt like "whoa, who are these interlopers." What's a great example of a show that

My friend's parents, who are both Chinese immigrants in their late sixties, love this show despite barely understanding it.

There's a Kang and Kodos carnival spinner-type ride on the left hand side of the art.

The problem with any show that has a rhetorical question for it's title is that critics will inevitably answer that question for all of us: "Does Someone Have to Go? Maybe, but the people who made this show are horrible dumb assholes."

The joke is that they didn't cast a bunch of sleazeball-looking actors to play the lowlife characters (pot dealer, stripper, street rat) who then masquerade as a typical American family; rather, they cast wholesome-looking typical American family-types and sleazed them up for the pre-masquerade part. Sudekis looks

Yeah, one of the clips he released via his podcast a long time ago was basically this retarded character talking at length about his deep religious faith.