Based on the line “while promoting his snorefest The Irishman” alone,  Ray Greene may as well be a pseudonym for Sam Barsanti

While I’m currently personally in an “off” cycle of my in-and-off mild Taylor Swift fandom due to sheer overexposure, this kind of personalized, thoughtful coverage of a piece of pop-cultire is the kind of writing I miss from the AV Club of yore. Thank you for writing this Emma, and hoping for more of this kind…

AI, is that you?

Any or all of Brad Pitt, JK Simmons, George Clooney, Francis McDormand for Burn After Reading should make this list IMO.

Same. If I recall correctly, In Bruges was advertised explicitly as a comedy in TV previews and...was not exactly that. It was something much better IMO, but also walked in expecting a straight comedy caper.

“This is a garbage take about nothing”

If only! Worse than that, it would probably mean all content is directed by Taylor Swift, who is apparently a director now?

Ryan Gosling had a brief project as frontman for a fun little band called Dead Man’s Bones, which put out out an eponymous album sometime between when he was on the the Canadian tv show Breaker High but before The Notebook...and I will admit I listen to it all the time, do recommend. It won’t be for everyone, but if a…

My partner and I rewatched the whole thing during the early days of COVID, and just like any comedy other show from an era before the current one, the answer to that question (for me anyway) is both Yes and No. Most people f it still still made us laugh, but there was also a minimum of 1 or 2 lines and episode that…

The celebrity fundraiser song to get Milton Green his kidney randomly starts blasting in my head a few times a month, though my brain always skips over a line or two to the part where Cyndy Lauper says " I'm one of the drunk ones!" 

“It’s crazy how many words you used to say absolutely nothing”

In an episode full of nice touches and visual gags, the D&B prizes were my favourite

I’d watch a spin-off of Hank and Cristobal doing just about anything. Crime (committing and/or solving), starting a book club, travelling the world, taking over management of a Dave & Busters, you name it.

Or in the spirit of a current Stephen Root character, instead of taking a stand, we just take the stash house from right under 'em

“And am I Fuches in the NoHo Hank feature?”

This seems....very likely!

Godammit, I unfortunately would watch this, if only to see Snape (obviously not Alan Rickman, RIP) cast into the Mr. Belding role

Agreed - even if wanting to cash in on IP, there are so many “magical world” books aimed at the same (presumed) target demographic. I’d definitely check out a show based on an Ursela K Le Guin or Dianne Wynne Jones series. 

Parry Hotter and the Silosipher's Phone

If a unicorn vomits Pepto Bismol, would it not just be pink, as it would if anyone vomits Pepto Bismol? Or are you positing that - by virtue of having been partially digested by a unicorn - said vomit would be imbued with a variety of other pastel colours from the unicorns stomach as well?