Ooh! Wait until I confront them all down at the club for their constant attempts to mislead me into using more of the jive-talk. Thank you for showing me the light, for you are a true friend.

His accent in that movie is really something special. "WHARS MAH WHIFE"

"Beautiful Dreamer" isn't that hard to get. The DVD version by US Manga Corps is new on Amazon for like $15.

"A lot of people consider Jurassic Bark a pointlessly cruel exercise in viewer manipulation and treacly sentiment. Really, it's not just me."

Much as I can't imagine not liking Buster Keaton, I wouldn't say your lack of response to him, Chaplin, and L&H would necessarily preclude you from liking the Marx Bros. For one thing, physical comedy was only one of many tools in their arsenal: they also used dumb puns, elaborate situational set-ups, surrealist…

Shaney McShane — you should read the actual comic. If anything, it's even more racist than it appears. Abdul Smith is basically treated like an EOE hire, and considering that his dialogue was being written by a 65-year-old Jewish guy from upstate New York, you can imagine how bad his "street" lingo was.

"What more can a movie do than be exactly what you expect it to be?"

How quickly we forget:

Man, "outrageously outsized" is right! Three whole months for drug charges and breaking probation? You'd think she was black or something!

What I said was it wasn't crammed full of CURRENT pop culture references, and what I meant was, the premise of the episode wasn't based on some YouTube meme.

Sure. I'm not arguing that they're meant to be genuinely moving — just that unlike the examples from other shows I cited. where the emotional content gets in the way of the jokes, "Mr. Show" manages to turn the emotional content INTO the joke.

What I'm saying is that episode relies on emotional moments and scenes of pathos — albeit contrived and certainly insincere ones — to sell a number of its jokes: the developmental regression of the defeated Indiana Basin Silt recruiter, the fall from stardom of the painfully sincere Fartin' Gary, the crestfallen…

The closed captions say it is indeed "Edsel woman", and a little anachronism would be in keeping with the joke. But then, I have argued that the closed captions have been wrong before, and I will again — see below.

I'm so pure, it hurts me!

I don't remember if it's in the audio commentary or the book, but it was mentioned that those contacts cost more than anything else they'd done on the show to that point.

Yes, there is. Back in the '90s, there was an excellent 'zine by Paul Hoff called "Thrift Score" about thrift store shopping, and elderly folk like myself still use the phrase "thrift score" to describe an exceptional find at a second-hand shop.

Edsel Woman, I think.

Tch, you're right. Fixed.

There were a lot of folks, especially when it first came out but still to be found today, who didn't think Gibbons was a good fit for "Watchmen". He's a pretty standard Silver-Age style superhero artist — not that there's anything wrong with that, but some folks felt like a book with writing as daring as "Watchmen"…

Well, if I were reviewing the entire Alan Moore run on "Swamp Thing", I would give it an A. But I was just reviewing the third volume, which I think isn't as strong as some of the other collections. Hence a B+, which is still the third-highest grade we can give.