True Story: One time my family and I were eating a spaghetti dinner on a weeknight, and in the middle of it our son told us that they'd had spaghetti for lunch at school that day, and I burst out laughing.

I think the reason we have so many great films about crime and criminals is because it forces narrative movement that can serve as the spine of the movie you actually want to tell. Crime inherently has high stakes and generates interpersonal conflict.

See, I really really really like Star Wars, but my investment is just in those original three movies. Like, all the Star Wars I want and will ever want is contained there.

The phrase "Mad as a Hatter" comes from Victorian London, where people who sold hats tried to sweeten the deal by offering their customers a teacup full of delicious mercury.

Cadmium, Myself & Irene

Of course protesting pays. I have it from a reliable source that all the protesters are on George Soros' payroll. Probably also the same guy paying the AV Club to give good reviews to Marvel movies!

The whole reason I started watching the show is because I saw the PBS listings in the local TV section of the newspaper, and the description of one episode was "The Cat dances. Lister thinks he is pregnant." And I decided I needed to check out whatever that was.

The very name of the show is a challenge! It's like if someone asked you whether the new guy playing Spider-Man is good, and you reply, "Actually, 'Spider-Man' is just the name of the comic book. The character is actually 'The Spider'."

I try to explain my love of late 90s pop rock (your Semisonics, your Fastballs, that Sister Hazel song) by saying "It's the AM Gold of the 90s!"

It would be interesting if some of the backlash this is getting would prompt her to do an interview teasing this stuff out a bit more.

This used to be one of my core beliefs, and it has really been upended by the past year or so.

I WILL NEVER FORGET THE AV CLUB!

"No, it's Frajer, and I should know: I'm Frajer."

1.) Somebody says something.
2.) People on Twitter get kind of mad.
3.) People here get REALLY mad because people on Twitter got kind of mad.

I do feel that Tina Fey tends to get scrutinized for this sort of thing harder than other comedians might. I've said this elsewhere (even on the very TV Club review for this episode), but people have what I think is a mistaken notion that Fey is some sort of spokesperson for liberalism or feminism or whatever. To be…

I said this during the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt reviews, but I think a big problem that Tina Fey has is that she has a reputation for being "political," but she really isn't. I mean, I assume she's vaguely liberal in her personal politics, but her comedy really isn't that purposeful in its politics. She was on…

I can't decide which I found more erotic: Tina Fey wolfing down half a sheetcake in a couple minutes, or Tina Fey calling Paul Ryan a pussy.

It's like he has no concept of "hills to die on." Every possible thing he perceives as a slight to himself is equally worth fighting for.

It'll be a short trip.

"The media thinks I need to make this shot? Fuck it, I REFUSE! Game over, I am the winner. How do you like them apples?"