What's this about Gabbo?

Same troll as it ever was. You can tell by the way he occasionally targets one specific female poster here. It's a personal grudge of some kind, now expanded to the whole site and anyone who takes the bait.

Monday mornings seem particularly bad for that.

"But your honor, I wasn't masturbating to or at her, I was masturbating on her!"

It's the unexpected inclusion of "balding" that really makes this comment sing—as though ogling teenagers is perfectly fine, provided one has a full head of hair.

It's the only suit that goes with his human fly head! Though I admit that the battery acid that leaks out of the mouth when he slavers can be off-putting.

I don't know that it's all that different in terms of style from the rest of the album, but I've rarely been able to listen to the first track of Richard Buckner's "Since" album (the track is called "Believers"). It sounds off-key and off-putting. The rest of the album is so strong, I was always surprised he chose…

I tend to think of the decline as less of a function of who was there & more a function of who had left by the mid-teen seasons. By Season 15, there were only a couple of mail-in scripts from John Swartzwelder, George Meyer was around much less, and I think writers like Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, David Mirkin and…

Though Scully got the writing credit for "Behind the Laughter", I'm almost certain that lines like "ready-to-sting bees" and "firehoses of respect" are from George Meyer. I haven't listened to the commentary track, but having read bits of Army Man and Meyer's New Yorker piece on attending conferences the humor…

I'm going to allow this!

Yeah I'm nearly with you there—just swap out Leonard Cohen for Neil Young. I saw Neil Young do a solo show a couple of years ago and he was utterly fantastic, but I've never listened to him as much as the others (though Neil Young fits better with the other two, I'll admit).

It's not plagiarism, it's a reference! I didn't remember where it came from, so I probably should have changed it. I tried to indicate lack of ownership with the "etc.", but in retrospect that's a pretty thin indication of reference-ness. Sorry.

Yeah…you might be right. I have a bad habit of assuming other people are me and will therefore like what I like. Black Books is probably my favorite tv comedy ever, but I also have a soft spot for The League of Gentlemen.

Have you seen Spaced?

It is certainly a darker comedy than The IT Crowd.

Ooo, thanks! Hadn't heard of that one.

I'm on the west side of the Atlantic and I like it just fine.

The League of Gentlemen.

I dunno; I stopped watching after Jigsaw's grievances became more and more petty. "You thought that flossing your teeth after meals was just a big fucking joke…" etc. The comment is a reference to an old Canadian animated short called The Big Snit, in which sawing figures prominently.

Second only to Peter "The Dinklarge" Dinklage.