I gave this one a B. I pretty much agreed with David Sims down the line, though I did chuckle a few times at the writing for the Obama cold open in spite of Armisen's bizarrely flat delivery. Here's hoping that Pharaoh or someone can take over that role in the event of Obama's reelection.

Yeah, I haven't seen Portlandia, so I can't comment to that. But I guess I don't see what you see with his SNL work. I've been catching myself sighing and going "Ah, geez…" whenever one of his sketches starts.

I liked the physical side of Armisen's George Lopez, which he nailed, but the voice was just your standard "Fred Armisen playing someone 'ethnic'" thing that he goes to the well with at least once per episode. And that Massachusetts song bit was his standard "Fred Armisen plays a lame musician" bit. And the…

He'd certainly have been a better Soultaker than Joe Estevez, you've got to give me that!

The single most unsettling thing about Unsolved Mysteries was how the host segments always seemed to feature Robert Stack—gravely intoning as he walked towards the camera—in the middle of some dark, foggy road with the reflections of distant ambulance and police car lights periodically flashing in the fog.

Oh man… the scene that stands out for me is one that YEARS of eye-covering turned into so deep a complex that I still have a hard time looking…

"Brilliant, Andy! Qwikster it is! And here's a reward for your creativity: How'd you like to be the CEO?"

I left a comment on the original post to much the same effect, but it basically boggles my brain to think that a company which, only a year ago, had so much of my confidence that I constantly evangelized it to everyone I know, could reach a point where I have absolutely no confidence left in them in only a year's time.