This show is like Ass Dan
It's been dead for years, but is afraid to admit it. I kid, but seriously, Tina Fey and Justin Timberlake have been consistently funny as hosts, and Ed Helms has always charmed the fuck out of me, so hopefully they can pack a season's worth of quality into three episodes, because this season…

6 ft under
The last two seasons are uneven, but many of the developments (George's environmental rhetoric, David and Keith's adoption, Nate's death) are pretty essential. I didn't like some of the character derailment (George becoming a headcase in particular was an abominable move that turned one of the show's best…

@Comedy Heretic…"untethered"? Is that a Primer reference? I always thought it would be funny if the movie Primer was done in the style of Seinfeld…

I've also noticed something about the changes in direction from season to season - The early seasons have lots of wide, long shots of Jerry's apartment with the characters' conversations playing out slowly and gently building to a comic payoff. In the later seasons, there's a herky jerky quality to the editing, with…

To clarify, I love every season of Seinfeld, but like the Superman mythology that the show often references, there's a "golden age" and a "silver age." The first five seasons are typified by stories that are comically absurd but mostly rooted in an emotional reality - The show would take an idea that is relatable to…

The end of an era
The Opposite has long been one of my top five episodes. When I first saw it, I knew the show (and tv in general) had hit a high water mark, along with season 5, that would be hard to follow up. After reading about the staff changes during the summer, I expected a downturn in quality the next season,…

My dingaling, my dingaling…
I want you to play with my dingaling!

Yeah, there's the sign, but, let's face it, these days television is so dumbed down that every little detail is explained in dialogue and nothing is layed out through body english or subtext. Seinfeld in its prime was great at using minimalist dialogue or facial expressions to tell a story, and the acting is the real…

"When he came out of the bathroom and he was kneading that dough… it was a wild scene."

"He took…
*blows on glasses*

I went into last night expecting the usual
Mind numbing disappointment that is. But I was pleasantly surprised!

Death Punch…
…was my favorite episode so far because it mostly focused on Chris doing silly Get a Life style comedy and ignored the supporting cast, who have mostly been deadweight. Not due to any fault of their own, but due to the format of the show, which favors the over-the-top exploits of the titular character and…

I'll be dead by the end of the month
Simpsons - This episode was co-written by Ian Maxtone-Graham, a man I credit with destroying the quality of both SNL and the Simpsons in the mid-90's, so I expected to hate it. It was typical latter-day Simpsons mediocrity: A few decent gags here and there, but the story isn't…

Boo.

Somebody didn't watch Back to the Future
Not only are the plot details wrong, but the future in BTTF is hardly what I would call a dystopia, more like an 80's idea of paradise: tacky and loaded with cool, impractical technology. The abolishing of legal counsel might be considered a step towards fascism, and people…

Bad Days by the Flaming Lips
It's funny, has a sense of finality to it, and there's a promise of peace at the end of a life full of suffering.

Has everyone forgotten
my pick for best album of 1997, the Flaming Lips truly mind-expanding masterpiece Zaireeka? Conceptually brilliant, flawlessly executed (especially considering nothing like this had ever been done before), and more sonically cathartic than Radiohead and Spiritualized put together, it's truly a…

Herbert
I remember a creepy old guy or two like him from when I was a kid… A strange man at the mall sat down next to me on a bench and said "What'choo readin' there?" and obviously I made an excuse to leave. The fact is that weird old guys like Herbert exist, and that's why he's funny in small doses - He's just…

lowest common denominator stuff?
That has to be the most reductive analysis of the Adult Swim aesthetic ever, which the writer goes on to contradict in the same sentence by saying that recent AS shows are intentionally designed to alienate their audience.

It's hi-def, y'all.
It occurred to me that this video is in hi-def, and Mac and Me looks pretty decent from a picture quality standpoint in 720p. Could a Criterion Collection edition be forthcoming?