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The weird thing about this show is that it's always funnier the second time I watch it, probably because the jokes just fly by in the 11 minute format and you can't help but miss a few.

"Daddy? If Cain and Abel were Adam and Eve's only children, did they make babies with their mother or with each other?"

Saying FW is "darker now" is like saying the ocean "gets deeper" out beyond the sandbar.

"Funky Winkerbean"officially died when the Les character met Lisa, his nerdy muse. Turned out she was pregnant (date-raped in the back of a van by a guy from a few towns over). She placed the baby for adoption and eventually reunited with him many years later as she was sick in bed dying of cancer. I know, hilarious,

Remember, nickels are money too, people.

Toki also "played" Skwisgar in the Dethklok tribute band, Thunderhorse.

This is pretty good but Floor was totally awesome. Thunder-pop rules.

The entire volunteer fire department industry is gay. And the railroads.

Kurt wrote the songs on "Live Through This". He may not have been credited but it was pretty obvious. I don't think it was a coincidence that after he died the "quality" of her "music" went downhill faster than her IQ.

If, after all these years, people would simply ignore her, she'd eventually go away, sort of like what happened to her terrible, terrible band. 

As silly as Axl is, you gotta hand it to the guy. He's a phone call away from going on what would be a very lucrative reunion tour yet he just refuses to budge on it. It's actually quite a "punk rock" move if you really think about it.

Dave richly deserved to get canned back then. It wasn't simply the excessive drinking (and I met Mustaine way back then and he was indeed a terrible drunk), he was also a difficult, obnoxious prick too. The band's manager at that time had mortgaged everything to get their first album recorded and Dave was standing in

Cliff was by far the most "musically inclined" and inventive guy in the band. He introduced them to a ton of influences they might never have had otherwise. They never really replaced him in that way nor did anyone else in the band really step up and fill that role. Jason was good and seemed like a good guy, but they

Lars (& the rest of the band) stopped pushing themselves musically after "Justice" and were content to bang out simple "stadium" rock instead. Believe it or not there was a time, long, long ago, when Lars was considered one of metal's "up & coming" drummers. But now he doesn't even try.

The riff at the end of "Thing" crushes all that cower. I miss Cliff Burton.

I likewise find it amazing that every one of those bands (among others) has more "headbanger cred" than Metallica does now, which would have been unthinkable in, say, 1988 or so.

They weren't particularly divisive at first, in fact between "KEA" & "Justice" they were on their own level within the metal "underground". There was Metallica and then everyone else. "Black" was really the first Metallica album that prompted any serious "backlash", but most die-hard fans gave them a "pass" on that

The most amazing thing about Metallica's career is that they managed to release their first four albums (plus $5.98 EP) in a mere five years. Since 1988 they've released five albums total (and one of those was "Re-Load"). Oh yes, and "Lulu". That is a band that's plumb out of ideas.

Lars has badly deteriorated through the years, now he's basically Alex Van Halen-like. Sure, he can do the "stadium rock" thing as well as anyone, but there are hundreds of metal drummers that could play circles around Lars right now.

There was simply no excuse for a band of Metallica's stature and resources to release an album that sounded that terrible. One-man death-grind acts release albums with better production values than "St. Anguish". It sounds exactly like what it is: a mish-mash of half-assed ideas centered around what Lars & James