I envy Springsteen only in that there's no possibility to ever measure up to the Boss' stature.

This.  All we're asking is you be a human about things.

This.  All we're asking is you be a human about things.

@avclub-620982009915db2a0b4a49e224bad30c:disqus we're trying to keep Hamm scandal-free, ok?

@avclub-620982009915db2a0b4a49e224bad30c:disqus we're trying to keep Hamm scandal-free, ok?

Shelley Fabares?

Shelley Fabares?

I love the guy despite getting the impression that's he's been a classic "dirty old man" since around 1975.

I love the guy despite getting the impression that's he's been a classic "dirty old man" since around 1975.

Nancy Cartwright's a Scientologist.  So, let's say MOST of the cast of the Simpsons.

Nancy Cartwright's a Scientologist.  So, let's say MOST of the cast of the Simpsons.

Everyone here just broke my heart by listing everyone I would have selected: Palin (one of my all-time heroes), Conan, Georgia & Ira, Jon Stewart, Louis CK, Bob Neuhart, et al…

Everyone here just broke my heart by listing everyone I would have selected: Palin (one of my all-time heroes), Conan, Georgia & Ira, Jon Stewart, Louis CK, Bob Neuhart, et al…

You get to a key point; every episode this season has indeed been a recycling episode, albeit in different matters, sometimes with narratives, characters, themes, or, in this case, style — the commercial, the show's approach to corporatism, deliberate mistaken identities, they're shaking up the recycling format.

You get to a key point; every episode this season has indeed been a recycling episode, albeit in different matters, sometimes with narratives, characters, themes, or, in this case, style — the commercial, the show's approach to corporatism, deliberate mistaken identities, they're shaking up the recycling format.

I loved how the commercial morphs as it goes on, combining previous phrases and ephemera that's gotten stuck in the characters' unconscious so it becomes even more incomprehensible.  Add in the egos and inability to properly use a Final Cut substitute correctly, and "Always Sunny" is a flagship example of tiny…

I loved how the commercial morphs as it goes on, combining previous phrases and ephemera that's gotten stuck in the characters' unconscious so it becomes even more incomprehensible.  Add in the egos and inability to properly use a Final Cut substitute correctly, and "Always Sunny" is a flagship example of tiny…

@avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus I'd agree with you up until Unforgiven.  After that he gets incredibly lazy.  The majority of his shots and pacing the more he gets into the '00s gets really shoddy, even with the Eastwood films that I liked (Flags/Letters, Gran Torino); most of his stuff just feels…

@avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus I'd agree with you up until Unforgiven.  After that he gets incredibly lazy.  The majority of his shots and pacing the more he gets into the '00s gets really shoddy, even with the Eastwood films that I liked (Flags/Letters, Gran Torino); most of his stuff just feels…

"No Love Lost" indeed.