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That's how Dana Plato died.

@Sentient Beard

If he's going to be so doggedly faithful to Suspiria…
…including using the original score, why is he even making it in the first place?

I'll jump on the "Other Guys is very appealing and funny" bandwagon. Perhaps the convoluted plot was also a joke, but I kind of doubt it. It was definitely neat to see a primer on the causes of the financial crisis in the credits. Oh, and Emperor Jim:

Likin' my beard: that's a paddlin'.

Mo Rocca is the poor, unfunny man's John Hodgman.

Sometimes I think about Sorry Wrong House Guy…out there constantly barging into the wrong houses, apologizing for his mistake, and leaving promptly…

Please slit your wrists to "Chase the Tear"

Third fucking rules and you are a horrible person.

OH. Jesus, I feel like an idiot for not getting that. Thanks, Nichael.

If it was just some random thing Roger observed while in the bad part of town, then that really would be pretty funny.

Ew, Homer, where did you get that ugly thing?
"Why at that little shop right over…there?! [swirling wind] Gasp! — Oh no wait it was over there."

I have similar issues with the movie version of a Good Life, but I still enjoy the surreal, blackly comic tone of it all. Most of the performances from Anthony's captives (except the teacher, and the less said about Anthony himself, the better) are sharp and inspired. But I do think that Dante let the style take

"We'll find your killer, Stu."
I only watch American Dad semi-regularly, so I was wondering if anyone could explain that reference to me. Did Roger kill "Stu" in an earlier episode?

The opening segment with Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd is always a pleasure to watch, and the rest of it, especially the "Good Life" 'and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" remakes, is really well done. The only real issue I have with it is the "Kick the Can" segment, which comes across as painfully dull and sappy to me.

@Too Much Time

I may lose all my punk cred here but I think it was just a pisstake of a bunch of different Clash songs. The nearest thing it comes to is "Career Opportunities."

I think "It's a Good Life" is the most unnerving episode of television I've ever seen.