"why the fuck would you bring in Will Ferrell to play a shitty character and tease that he would replace Michael but then essentially kill him off and spend five fucking episodes looking for replacements that were just cameo actors playing lunatics and then decide on California—which I thought was a good idea—and then…

Please, don't disabuse me of the wonderful notion of Chevy Chase calling in the heavy political hitters to put horseheads in beds so he can keep his supporting role on a low-rated sitcom.

Isn't Carell's movie career already giving indications that having him back isn't a surefire way of breathlessly attracting millions of people?

It's sort of like BB King on When Loves Comes to Town…the guy who's brought in to sing it gives it a believability it didn't quite have in the voice of the guy who actually wrote it. (And in some ways, the case of the Ramones cover above fits too.)

Well, Montypark, you miss the last few minutes of the last episode, see below.

I regret that I have but one like to give. Yes.

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I know, I know…he (she?) didn't handle it well when someone simply stated a contrary opinion, which wasn't all that contrary if I remember correctly. So yes, douchebag, etc. But the original critique wasn't badly stated, and it may have even been right. Shame about the subsequent exchange, I guess.

"the gleefully lurid Wild Things leaves…blow-up doll come."—Sam Adams, AV Club

Do it if you want…but don't forget, that original guy had a point.

Although…wasn't Tom Sawyer already gone wrong? I remember his "appearance" in Huck Finn better than in his own book, so maybe that's my problem (re-read HF a couple years ago, not TS since college), or maybe Twain just thought Tom was more charming a rogue than I did, but my memory is that he was a sort of malign…

Big Thomson fan, always wanted to read that book. I may not be understanding how it works, but I can say that it reminds me of the time several years ago when I watched The Searchers and Rio Bravo in a weekend…and ever since, can't think of one without the other, imagining that Ethan Edwards walked out of that doorway…

True enough…although I think his main purpose was just to step in and rescue Geoffrey.

I watched it recently. It's pretty good. The one I'd try to get, though it may look a bit VHS-tapey, is the BBC one with Michael Hordern as Lear. Late 70s/early 80s, I think. Always loved that (at least since I first saw it 10-12 years ago). Interestingly, takes the bare-bones, no-scenery approach a la S+A's…

Cheaper to buy a slide whistle.

Gordon's the younger guy?

Geth, you don't understand. This is about Amy Poehler's (poorly articulated) feelings and her chance to sigh and show us she cares. If she can't do that, what was feminism for—engaging with the world or something? Please…she's hip, she's spoken, and therefore we melt with admiration. That's all ye know and all ye need…

An ironic phrase in a question that leads to a three and a half minute video whose key conclusion is "I don't know" and leaves us all with the important message that Amy Poehler is feeling pensive. In a world where people live under the threat of getting the shit bombed out of their neighborhoods, workplaces, etc,…

The rest is silence.

You mean a WOMAN considered for one those jobs?!? Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!Ha!
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