Serling liked to say that The Twilight Zone was 1/3 great, 1/3 good, 1/3 bad. And as you said, the “great” was SO great that even the “good” would be considered great by other shows’ standards.

Oh, man. Remember a few years ago when Deadspin posted that video of the matador getting killed in the ring? I won’t go so far as to say that watching someone die made me happy, but it was definitely satisfying.

Bullfighter = steaming pile of shit

I always thought it said something very clear about the city’s semi-segregated geography that when our hockey team wins the championship, everyone goes to Wrigleyville to celebrate.

I was a bouncer at a 4am bar near DePaul in Chicago during the early-mid ’00s. St Patrick’s Day was always the fucking worst. I don’t have any cool stories about the ones I worked; it was just all the bullshit that bar staff has to put up with most nights, only it’s every single person instead of just the standard one…

There’s a jump-cut from Grant panicking over Hepburn’s safety because she’s out with the dangerous leopard, straight to a shot of Hepburn stubbornly dragging said vicious beast down the street. It cracks me up just thinking about it. The writing, performances, direction, editing, etc... everything went just right.

I’m preeeeeeetty sure I saw a version with “funky,” but hell it’s been 25 years, so who knows. “Fuzzy” is pretty great too, especially if you imagine it in Neeson’s growling rage voice.

“Darkman” features one of my favorite pieces of dubbed-over-for-tv dialogue. In the original film, he yells, “take the fucking elephant!” On tv, he yells, “take the funky elephant!”

We only need two songs to convey “early 90s:” Under the Bridge and Give It Away. Any situation in a period movie would be able to use one of those two and it’d trigger the perfect nostalgia switch.

Didn’t an African American player make a similar post-playoff speech a few years ago that resulted in him getting blasted by the media/league/fans for acting like a brainless, violent “thug?”

Good taste be damned, this incident led to my all-time favorite “desd celebrity” joke:

Parks & Recreation is one of the few sitcoms - hell, maybe one of the few TV shows, period - that actively encouraged viewers to be better people. And it didn’t do so by demonstrating how easy it is for most fundamentally good people to still behave poorly or make bad decisions in the moment. I loved how none of the…

Mel Rojas!

It’s a lie that tells the truth.

“We’ve got a hundred million dollars laying around. It would make a pretty impressive tax write-off at the end of the year. I wonder how much good that kind of money would do in the Detroit or Chicago public school systems?”

[check skin color]

As a recovering fanboy, I can say that ”canon” carries a lot of weight at least in part because it’s solid. It’s reliable. It’s objective. Or at least it carries the illusion of all of those things, and there’s comfort in something so dependable, especially if your real life doesn’t offer much of it.

That guy is a master class in creating a sympathetic character with zero dialogue and less than a minute of screen time.

Once again, life imitates Chappelle Show.

This is the first time in years that I’ve laughed at a Leonard Pierce joke. Well played, sir or madam.