as above…I kept thinking of Scott Adsit from 30 Rock

I can't be the only one who also kept thinking of him as the character Scott Adsit played on 30 Rock.

Did Rip Torn die?

It's not superfluous. It's just misplaced.

Never Be Closing

The problem isn't advocacy. The problem is that the movie was pretty unambiguous in its position that torture was instrumental in finding Bin Laden. How it felt about torture generally may be a little ambiguous, but its depiction of torture's role is not. And the facts strongly suggest that depiction is wrong.

Just watched the blu-ray of that a couple months ago. It's…good. Best movie ever?

Sounds like my first two marriages.

Didn't Bill Cosby say that that conversation didn't actually happen?

I remember reading This Appointment etc too, and liking it. Didn't get what "stylish and hollow" means here…but hey, kudos for "the urgency of people being dragged offstage by a sideshow hook."

It's between him and the guy named Ramsay he poisoned. Hence the sorriness.

Good Show does not automatically equal Easy Sell/Good Ratings. You'd know more about the show than I do, obviously, but if it's more 30 Rock or Community than Big Bang Theory, I can see where it's not (business) incompetence to go looking for another Big Bang Theory instead.

I suspect part of the problem was, criticizing this show, on this site, probably felt like opposing the Iraq War on Fox News in 2003. So there's a lot of hands-up, palms-out, now-I'm-not-saying…but it's good to see that the comments here are not the same as the comments on the episode reviews…

I'll stick up for Brandanowitz too. His explanation to them on how to win the public art contest (or whatever that was) was a fantastic moment. The ending in which they opted for let's-show-our-true-selves-and-love-each-other was fine at the time, but in retrospect it seems a little…well, "ominous" is a little much,…

I agree…though I admit, I kinda got distracted at the sentence with "sperm" and "grasping" and "soapy."

btw, I don't understand how they could have missed the chance to have Newt Gingrich just say "Shut up, Jerry" during the restaurant misunderstanding.

But it'll be set in Muncie, to which he will have retired so as to live there year round with Christie Brinkley. I think only those who know Muncie, Indiana, understand how delightful that particular joke about the time-share was. (Same goes for Hudsucker Proxy's Muncie ref's.)

I never warmed up to Six Feet Under, but I have to say, that dream sequence was really well done. I don't know how dream-y it really was, but it was a cool way to pull off what they did in that episode.

Also, it's overrated. Never understood the love.

Your dad wants you to know, he's really fuckin' glad he went to all that work for you.