People who just saw this episode for the first time this week don't really count, what with their bullshit about how cool Bart is.

Vertigo:  saw it as a teenage film nerd who loved Hitchcock thrillers, and was put off by the slowness.  Watched it again a few years later and was blown away.

Kramer is the only character who doesn't act out of utter self-interest 100 percent of the time.  Elaine was kind of a do-gooder softie in the early seasons, but she became as snarky as hell as the show went on.

Like, recently?

"Unfortunately, “The Puerto Rican Day” lacks the sense of brilliant plotting that pervades the previously referenced episodes. The parade is just a backdrop for a bunch of silly goings-on"

See?  That makes everything funnier.

I like to think that in that picture, they're all looking in disgust at a comment about how cool Omar is.

I'll start:

Remember when Jesse kept dialing her number over and over, just to hear her voice for the message…and then the battery runs out?  It was like she died again.  Sad shit.

The animatronics used for E.T.'s expressions were state-of-the-art and went way beyond Japanese kaiju rubber suit stuff.  I agree though that Blade Runner and Poltergeist (the other Oscar FX nominee that year) had more "razzle-dazzle."

Wow…looks even worse than Atari's Gremlins.

Didn't that happen to Beavis and Butthead?

COPS , look, Fox doesn't want you visiting its house anymore.  I'm going to have to ask you to leave.

It's legit.

I don't precisely know why, but "Beat-aping" is cracking me up here.

I heard he's joined the "legalize it!" crowd lately.  Maybe these are the end times.

Why is he always compared to Normal Rockwell?  I suppose it's because they are both associated with homespun Americana, but  Rockwell's work was simple, clean, and personal.  Kinkade's dreck was suffused with brackish, overlit reflections.  The stylistic difference is huge, and that comparison always irritated me.

This phenemenon isn't exclusive to The Wire either.  It's like listening to sheltered, middle class meatheads going on about how cool Michael Corleone or Tony Montana are.

Ziggy had a fascinating character arc, but he was so damn aggresively stupid.

"Most of these guys haven't had a pillow fight in years!"