Also, the idea that there's some land in the middle of Indiana that's somehow remarkable enough to qualify for National Park status is kind of stretching it a little. A National Preserve or Lakeshore, maybe, but come on.

So much of real life is about adjusting your expectations and learning to be happy with what life gives you, that I found it a little disappointing that every character in the show basically just succeeded beyond their wildest dreams—lucking into their dream jobs, getting crazy rich, finding eternal domestic bliss…

Yeah…I was glad to see all the characters wound up happy, but that show has a pretty narrow definition of what a successful life entails. Pretty much everyone got married, had kids, found their dream job, got rich. Even Donna, who supposedly discovered the joys of living a more selfless life, still had enough cash to…

Please 'do.

I agree. I think the tipping point of a show is when the behind-the-scenes machinations of the writers start to become obvious, whether it's adjusting for cast members leaving, as mentioned in the article, or just struggling to find new ways to keep all the characters involved in the plots, no matter how much that…

Sounds like the writers of that show don't realize that "Aboriginal" means "indigenous person" and not "thawed-out caveman."

Kinda surprising the Dan Savage show isn't going to be based on his adult life: "successful advice columnist and his husband adopt a kid" seems like the kind of premise networks would love. The one they're going with actually sounds somewhat better to me, though.

"Butthurt." Ha!

I don't even need to see him being FUNNY—just…doing something. Hell, he could have come out and sang "Party All the Time" and I would have loved it.

I'm kind of glad they didn't spend too much time on old sketches. Those are time-consuming and fairly easily accessible elsewhere (probably especially so with whatever new SNL app they were hawking).

The first Nutty Professor wasn't a great movie by any stretch, but at least you could feel some energy in Eddie Murphy's performance for a change. He seemed to genuinely enjoy playing a range of characters rather than just "bland leading man."

Agreed! I think his career plan has always been to squander his talent for ten years at a stretch, then turn in one great performance so everyone can be like "Eddie Murphy is BACK!" and then go back to making brainless dreck for another decade.

I think there's a part in one of the present-day sequences where the main character either uses a phone book or calls directory assistance to get somebody's phone number.

I hope "Oh balls, I maked a whoopsie" winds up being the phrase that Stephen King repeats over and over ad nauseum in his next book.

Well, it made ME want to watch this.

They totally did Bound! …maybe not the one you're thinking of, though.

I read a lot of Emily's responses in Kumail's voice for some reason. I also read Kumail's responses in Kumail's voice, though. Maybe he should just be married to himself?

"Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting" sounds like a breakfast cereal.

I think that character also appeared on Weekend Update as a rejected X-Men mutant, and possibly the illegitimate child of Angelina Jolie and her brother after they made out on the Oscars that one time.

Yeah, I knew Paul Winfield famously played MLK so I assumed that was a theatrical movie; turns out it was a miniseries.