You know, part of me wonders if Sean O’Neal’s style still would have held up today. He was good, no doubt, but it’s a different era.

Mulaney is so good on SNL it almost feels like cheating. I also have to echo others that the most surprising guest has to be Garth Brooks, when he first hosted it was almost a guaranteed disaster and then we were all proven very wrong.

He looks like he bought the Variety Height Pack of white guys and is satisfied with his purchase

My parents love this movie and quoted it for a long time (the other Albert Brooks movie we owned was Defending Your Life, which I far preferred as a kid). It was only once I hit my 20s that I could rewatch it and discover how great it really was.

My favorite of these was Bill Hader on God of War. Just the two perfect ringers for a game so deeply macho.

I would have tapped waaaaaay out in Season 3 if it wasn’t for my wife. Seriously, that was your master fucking plan that had to be scored to “Burning Down the House”? Just get caught and glower again?

All of those are great, and let’s not forget Tom Breihan and Caroline Seide’s retrospective articles.

As a big TLJ defender I have to agree, TFA had a lot riding on it and had to please all sorts of people. There wasn’t a lot of room to break out from the meat-and-potatoes stuff it had to deliver, and it mostly kept things brisk and fun in that department without being too painful (save for the Starkiller Base shit,…

I half-interestedly read the first two books on a long car trip to Oregon one time, so I don’t feel like I’m quite the authority on whether the resulting movies are any good or not. They’re held quite dearly by the fanbase, so I think they’re all successes - and I think it’s funny that Boyhood got so much press and…

I think I remember an article from not too long ago, where someone either interviewed former contestants or the show’s producers, and it basically confirmed this. They filmed all the episodes of the show back-to-back, so the kids you were watching had never even seen this on TV before. And the countdown clock in a…

There’s a legend that still persists to this day, that the script for the cancelled Sprockets movie was actually fucking good, on a “true successor to Wayne’s World” level. I don’t even want to hunt it down and read it, just in case the legends are wrong.

Haha, I genuinely figured Pose was just going to not care about the dead body in the closet anymore. Just another “Whelp, that was a Ryan Murphy plot point everyone, we’re just gonna wash our hands and move on because we don’t know if we’re getting renewed.” Now I guess they have to care!

Joel must really not like it, since it never plays during any of the Turkey Day marathons and there is an ENTIRE RUNNING GAG about turkeys!

Good list, a whole lotta Sci-Fi Channel shows up for me too. Riding With Death is a must.

Musk is known for hating The Onion’s incisive headlines about him, and promoting The Babylon Bee’s intensely unfunny suck-up headlines instead. So I’m assuming we can expect sketches about how amazing Space X is, and how much of a rebel badass Elon is, and what it’s going to be like when he runs Mars. Very funny!

That was a highlight! Love me some butch walker.

I like to imagine The Masked Singer as mandatory state viewing, described as “doses” instead of “episodes,” and maybe instead of it being called The Masked Singer it’s called “Smileshine.” And when I come home for the holidays, my parents ask me if I’ve had my latest doses of Smileshine, and I have to pretend that I…

I’m an editor, so this is kind of a nerdy comment, but I fully agree about Syriana - I refer to it as a “B-C movie,” meaning if a scene is supposed to go A-B-C-D, telling you who these characters are, what they want, what’s in their way, and how they go about getting it, then Syriana completely cuts off the beginnings…

No question, without a moment’s hesitation, I know what it was:

I’m always the first to re-examine old opinions of mine, and on the whole I’m a big fan of the way modern criticism has turned towards finding the good in what was previously deemed bad (call it Poptimism if you must, though I think it’s a bit more nuanced than that label implies).