Leno also mugged hideously in American Hot Wax, I believe

Interesting Don Draper/Michael Steadman comparison:

So many of my friends love this band…it really is one of the great mysteries of my life.  I mean no offense, but rush's music is, to my ears, the absolute worst, most infuriating and grating noise I have ever heard.  I know they are all technically accomplished, but…those songs, that voice, the wankery…I feel…

They openly refered to their son as a halfwit, so maybe the Petries not so much.

But life with the Taylors would mean mandatory attendance at church and thousands of football games, so NO DICE.

I'm surprised by the measured and mixed reactions…I thought this was hands down the funniest, most consistently laugh out loud episode the show has ever done.  Poehler and Scott were just sublime, and there were so so many amazing lines.

I attended St. John's Military Academy, where Up the Academy was filmed.  Our Commandant was injured during the shoot and given a golf cart he was still driving around campus when I got there.

I love her and always wish she got more work.  She was actually on a Party Down episode…organizing a pre-school charity auction.

I always wondered why the machines, after drilling into the human bunker, didn't just drop some bombs down there.  Fight over.

I review books for one of the major monthly journals…I got this manuscript in the mail and stared at it, dumbfounded that anyone would think this would be of any interest to anybody anywhere.

It's casual!

"This is evidently a show that wants to have its cake—goofy, campy moments mixed with big scares—and eat it too—by taking these characters dramatically seriously—but it has essentially no idea how to shift gears between those tones."
 
This is the defining characteristic of all of Ryan Murphy's shows.

Rumors, my friends, Rumors.

Damn.  The one new sitcom I sorta liked, so of course.

I submit the pilot of Cheers as pretty perfect.

Yes, but does he heal with his steel?

She fucked up Jerry's taxes and went insane on Seinfeld, I think?

This all seems so familiar:

It's informative in many ways:  If you drop a brick on a dead cat, it will not shit.

Must have read Danse Macabre a thousand times.  Which makes his cringingly bad work in his columns all the more disappointing.