My in-bed companion is a small terrier whose mission in life is to prevent my wife and I from ever having sex, so a creepy stuffed animal would be a big step up.

I wasn't aware that there was a Lego monorail, but I made my own. I worked out a way to put the one-dot-wide pieces upside-down, and built the track out of them. (alternately, you could use the smooth cover pieces, but who had more than like four of those?) It didn't need wheels - it was just smooth…

My rental car broke down in D.C., and I heard gunshots when I got out. A bunch of middle-school-age kids walked by a minute later, and I'm pretty sure they were the source of the gunshots. I kept thinking of that Dave Chapelle routine where the baby's on the corner selling weed.

I have no idea what you ^^^ are talking about. I will say this, though. While the UK Office is better from an artistic standpoint, writing, acting, etc., the US Office is… what's that word… enjoyable! I thought the UK Office was great, but so much of it was so painful to watch that I'm not in a hurry to see it…

Good point. And how many actors give a shout-out to the editors?

(appraisal of the hotness of some woman tangentially connected to the article, in this case probably Mindy Kaling, but possibly Jenna Fischer, Meg White (boobs only), or Phel) Or has Riff taken the "only girl on AVClub" crown from Phel?

Yeah, I have to reluctantly agree. Not with the pansies part, but with the heh, liberal arts part. I switched from a useful major (computer science) to a useless one (English), and although I love my current job in publishing, it would have been nice to have ended up in a higher-paying field. As an English major, I…

(defending mbs from ad hominem attacks)

JVS, my school had a radio station not affiliated with any department, a media study department that did film/video, so communications was kind of a joke. The running gag was that the whole basketball team were communications majors - it was basically the equivalent of basket-weaving. So I'm curious about schools…

The problem is, Ghostbusters isn't a series. It's one great movie, and an unnecessary sequel based more on the Saturday-morning cartoon than the original film. It's not something like Trek, where there's a wealth of backstory to draw from. I'll grant you, the general idea of ghostbusting is a pretty good one, as…

Interesting. I'm still skeptical, though.

(quote from the Simpsons or Arrested Developement. If the latter, followed by "Come on!")

I've always been curious. What do communications majors actually study? That's not snark; I've never been clear on what communications entailed.

IMDB says someone's working on a script for it. That doesn't mean it's gonna get made. Ghostbusters is one of my all-time favorites, and I'm of the opinion that we not only don't need anyone making a Ghostbusters 3, we need to go back in time and un-make Ghostbusters 2.

That's a great point. And I think he'll pull it off. As someone who used to stay up past his bedtime to watch Carson, I'm glad the Tonight Show is funny again.

Okay, here's a question that's somewhat on-topic. How come when Letterman runs a joke into the ground, it goes from being funny, to unfunny, to painful, to hilarious. But Tarkovsky's joke persona just bounces between unfunny and painful?

A.D. Miles is hilarious. I was happy to see him turn up in Role Models, and had a smidgen of hope for Fallon when he signed on as head writer. Honestly, Jimmy Fallon is far and away the weakest link on that show. A.D. Miles and ex-Onion people as a writing staff and the Roots as a house band? You could plug in…

^^^ What about Bill Murray? Obviously, he's done a lot of work that's beneath him, but has he ever turned in a boring performance? Apart from Broken Flowers, which was supposed to be boring, as far as I can tell?

Letterman has better sound because someone on the show (probably Paul Schaeffer) insists that all the musical acts play live, therefore they put some effort into mic-ing the room. Most of SNL's musical guests are playing along with a tape, so they don't care that the few that don't have shitty sound.

Ejecta, to quote the man himself, I did not know that. That's wild stuff. I somehow feel better knowing that Carson's old set is being rescued from a dumpster and being installed in Kramer's apartment than housing the Jay Leno Show.