Carl is the most dis-likeable TV character since Phil Leotardo's wife.

I vividly remember buying "Ace Of Spades" at the old Crazy's Eddie chain. They actually had a fantastic record department, believe it or not, loads and loads of imports. It got a rave review in "Creem" magazine which was good enough for me. After one spin I was hooked, I suddenly realized that my pathetic attempts to…

No.

Totally "meh". M-E-H….meh. I felt neither highs nor lows during this episode.

"The Downward Spiral" is about sex, "The Fragile" is about love. That's how I always saw it.

That Tito Puente tune is fucking awesome.

Chris Elliot.

It's so easily ignored if one chooses to do so, it isn't like it's some ubiquitous pop-culture thing you can't escape.

Meh, I've seen better and I've seen way, way worse. A C sounds about right.

Artie is so much funnier when he's passionate and/or focused about or on something specific, as opposed to when he's just crudely riffing and pretending to be pretending to not give a shit.

It was so much better than "Live Evil". No one wanted to hear Dio doing Ozzy tunes and he only had two album's worth of Sabbath tunes to work with. 'SOTD' has real energy to it, "LE" is so lifeless.

I love how that asshole Gene Simmons is trying to revise history and pretend that was his thing, what a dick.

IDK if that's necessarily true. Dio kind of fell from favor mostly because his stuff was always so samey all the time, while Ozzy more eagerly embraced the 80s hair metal fashion.

Because he had a very strict formula that he never deviated from, ever.

Dio will always be fondly remembered for his fantastic stuff with Rainbow, the way he rescued and revitalized Black Sabbath and of course for "Holy Diver", a seminal album of the era. I saw him with Sabbath in 2007 and good Lord was he amazing. The dude has some serious, serious pipes and he is very sorely missed.

I've been reading a lot about Pete's "happy ending" but does anyone else see a plane crash in his future?

Kenny Powers. He's obnoxious, crude, rude and decidedly un-PC, yet he's just so damned lovable.

I think a B-minus is fair for this one. Like a nice familiar sofa, if you came across a rerun of this one you'd say "meh" and not grab for the remote right away.

I have all the DVD sets and a digital copy of all the rest of them. Every episode ever.

Yes, including the episodes that set the whole tone of the show going forward. It was his eye that made it all work.