Up All Night is far from the worst. I love Community, but every show doesn't have to be Community. It's moderately-paced, charming, and funny. Definitely not all-caps-screed-worthy. Besides that's not what's keeping Community off the air (or in general making NBC's Thursday night a ratings graveyard), it's Big Bang…

Just put your load in the laundry and set it to fuggedaboutit.

I was very appreciative of the reference on WTF to Andy Kindler's joke about B.J. Novak "BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and
being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles." Definitely the best joke about B.J. Novak there ever will be.

Wow, the youtube clips were taken down hard. CBS had to take it down 3 times. Also, wasn't this show on NBC?:

I actually came to terms with "Playboy Mansion", it was in the vein of "commercialization/mass media is crazy, man" songs on the 90s. It was a bit pat, but still clever for what it was.

This is so great to hear. I absolutely love Pop and I think it's the last album of them trying. Before they went about "reapplying for the job of the best band in the world". "Wake Up Dead Man" is an immense closing song and got me to check out Lisa Germano. I still like some singles after Pop, but they are just…

I think it's a decent listen. "Wear Me Down" is great. "Sing" is a classic song from that album. Though it wasn't on the US version of Leisure, it was on the Trainspotting soundtrack here.

Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) produced "Crazy Beat". It was probably on the radio for a second.

William Orbit produced 13 and it did have two minor hits here in the US (meaning they played it on commercial rock radio) with "Tender" and "Coffee & TV" (which had the video with the milk carton character).

Youth is the one thing that makes me wince about this show. John Stossel should introduce these concepts every week in a patronizing tone. At least the daughter wasn't really involved this week. She's the worst blank-slate daughter on tv since Meadow Soprano.

Sadly, I was introduced to these films by Italian Spiderman. Actually, I'm not sad.

I've been enjoying that when Ruxin is hilarious when he loses. The slickness he displays when winning fades and he's left recounting what just happened: "Eye contact? And a half-chub? Blech!"

Wow, and she grew up in a muslim family from Stone Mountain, Georgia. That must have been interesting (as a christian Indian who encountered plenty of racist crap growing up in NJ, this is crazy to me). AND she's married to Buffalo/Team USA goalie Ryan Miller?! That is some crazy bio.

Who broke them?

One $4 book purchase later, I found out that it's not in "Lost Joy". So I implore you internet of the future with knowledge of zines distributed in Cambridge MA in 1998-9, help me find this long-lost ultimate proselytizing device for Dragnet.

For me, the crappy (but perfectly tolerable, it does not obscure with levels in the red) production right down to the sleeve artwork helps create the bleak world of Dragnet.

Dragnet!
It's been great to get absorbed into Fall fandom. I bought a zine from a temporary vending machine (Cambridge MA city hall) which detailed a post-apocalyptic world where the kids had taken arms against their parents and one kid bunkered-down with a copy of Dragnet and an infinite supply of Atomic Fireballs or…

Also, the response to the mentioned "They're not shut-ins, they just like to stay inside. … All the time."

"Well that went better than I possibly could've imagined."
LZBS-
The wonderfully succinct explanation of Bill's behavior to Matthew has been recycled by me many times in life:
Dave: "Bill. Tells you lies. Because he thinks that's funny."
Matthew: "I don't see what's funny about that."
Dave: "That's kinda the point."