I know these people are supposed to be impervious to fear and pain and slicing their fingernails off or whatever, but those bees would have shut me down completely.  *shiver*

I know!  That was gobsmacking.  Chicken salad at a block party?!?  What next?  Hot dogs at a Fourth of July BBQ?

Nathan Ford's Evil Twin's Acquaintances:  "Ooh, another episode with Maya and Alexander wandering through the desert doing absolutely nothing!  Yay!"

Yeah, Drive probably would have been the tenth.  Personally, I'd go with Contagion, which was better than half the movies that actually did get nominated.

Gypsy or GTFO.

Gay Guys Talking About Straight Guys Talking About Downton Abbey:  So I like to look up the actors to see what their 2012 selves look like.  Amy Nuttall really is Ethel for the modern era.  Yowsa.

Between this and defending Aziz Ansari to a bunch of people who just weren't having it, are we suddenly in some sort of society in which Cuba Gooding Jr. explains all celebrity behavior to the rest of us?  Because no thanks.

I feel like it's a little disingenuous to use the words-taken-out-of-context argument, as people did with Tracy Morgan as well.  I suppose it's possible that that's what happened, but Cook and Morgan are not performers that fine tune a joke to subvert audience expectations, like CK or Silverman or Jeselnik.  They're…

Counterpoint:  I've never seen a single episode of Deadwood, and think JFC is the worst show ever made.  Fuck it forever and a day.

Sarah is far from the only one guilty of this, but still:

I, for one, refuse to believe that Cuba Gooding, Jr. would appear in a substandard film.

DON'T DATE ROBOTS!

How can you not like her?  She's a cop that plays by her own rules!

Boy, really festive colors for a Mardi Gras: Brown and yellow.

I'm going to assume everyone's just plain forgotten about the one where Bender becomes pharaoh, which is as it should be.

My next band shall be called Scully and the Hesses.

We're through the looking glass here, people.

Is "Fool's Luck" the one with Livia's confession?  Because if so, then yeah, that was the most amazing episode.

The most recent episode of RadioLab, called "The Bad Show", is the best one they've done in a long while.

It'll be tough to pick between watching this and its timeslot competition: