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Lone Scherfig
Good, I hate it when Scherfigs team up.

Re-neducation?

They keep mentioning Birkitt because she was an intern on the Late Show (who Letterman also had on-air for some bits and stuff), and she later lived with Halderman…so the implication is that she was Halderman's source of info.

Robert Halderman
At first I thought they were talking about Nixon's chief of staff…but that was Robert HaldEman (no R)…

^2nd what the dearly departed Mr. Dent said…from beyond the grave…God rest his soul.

I thought it was pretty cheap the way they cribbed Chenowith's character straight from Jerri Blank. In the scene at the bowling alley where Will has his mini-intervention with her, I half-expected him to say: "April, you're a boozer, a user, and a three time loser. Meet me in Principal Blackman's office tomorrow

Unpleasant - Gas Bag doesn't see what you did there.

I kept looking for a credit for Principal Skinner as "Skinny Boy."

Now I'm picturing Kearney from the Simpsons playing the Neo part…and it really kinda works!

Clint Eastwood
The, uhm, entry above reminded me of another distrubing scene with Clint. Toward the end of The Rookie (1990, costaring Charlie Sheen of all people), Sonia Braga cuts and then "rapes" ole' Clint, who is tied to an office chair, all the while warning him "don't lose it." Presumably the "it" in

Heh. 'Loads.'

MPBC - I'd watch it all right, provided:

Yeah, but at least now you can feel superior to those whackjobs, right?

Is that your [dramatic pause] final answer?!?

Well done.

I'm pretty sure it was him, Marwood. Good to see him getting a higher-profile part…I think he's a gifted comedian, and underused.

Hey, I'm not glad the dude's dead or anything. I'm just saying that I can see how someone motivated to do so (agent) could say with a straight face that that was 'natural causes'.

"Natural causes"
Rope (possibly made of natural hemp fibers) goes around neck. Body is supended from said rope. Force of gravity pulls body down, snapping neck and/or stopping oxygenation of the brain. Death.

I tried to do my Meatwad impression but I got stuck in the shape of samurai Lincoln.

His "WHAT THE FUCK?!?" ain't too shabby, either.