It’s definitely my #1. Just a great show, funny and melancholy and brilliant, and one that doesn’t lose its glow with age.

I think I may have enjoyed Cartoon Planet even more than Space Ghost Coast to Coast, mostly because of Brak.

I saw a few episodes of Eagleheart back when, and I guess I need to finish it. I’ve been a Chris Elliott fan since the Get a Life days, and a Maria Thayer fan since the Strangers With Candy days.

I’ve been meaning to see it, but I’m not sure where I can find it now. But mostly I wanted to add that Mission Hill was created by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, who ran seasons 7 and 8 of The Simpsons.

Yeah, heh, if you were the right age to be a college stoner when adult swim premiered, you probably have a lot of fond memories of it. Sealab, Space Ghost, and Family Guy reruns for me mostly— I wasn’t into Aqua Teen at first but I eventually came around.

I wonder if there was a conscious decision not to include infomercials. I feel like Too Many Cooks, whether or not you like others more, blew up enough that it would’ve at least warranted mention.

Also, emphasis that it’s “Childrens,” not “Children’s” as this article cells it.

Even though I like a lot of the other stuff they’ve done, I couldn’t really get into their adult swim stuff. Maybe I need to give it another shot, but it always left me with the impression of being weird and random for weirdness’ and randomness’ sake.

I do think that’s kinda fair, honestly. It’s a lot harder to achieve A+-level comedy even if you stumble later than it is to make solid Bs. (Also why I have a hard time rating, say, 30 Rock or It’s Always Sunny vs. Arrested Development— those other two were great for so long and some of the funniest shows on air, but A…

That bad? I thought it was fine. Nothing to write home about— and if we’re lucky the show approaches its peak levels maybe once a season— but I had a few good laughs and the story held some interest for me. Maybe I’ve just lowered my standards so that any episode that doesn’t involve a)incest or b)“Rick is secretly…

I don’t even know what I’d call the funniest scene in Home Movies, but I’d bet of my list, Coach McGuirk is responsible for roughly 100% of them.

Yeah, I believe that.

As soon as someone says something along the lines of “Scorsese only makes mob films about toxic white guys,” I know I can ignore them immediately, because that only describes, what, four of his twenty-six films, and it ignores all his efforts to promote and preserve world cinema.

You just made up a version of that comment to snark at.

That’s what drives me crazy about those nerds you describe. They won! They get to see tons of the big-budget comic book films they’ve always wanted, all the time, forever and ever. That’s not good enough for them, though. It’s not enough that the film industry is giving them everything they want, they also need to be…

When Marty is gone, and an entire body of work steeped in the belief that toxic masculinity is the organizing principle of the cosmos is reassessed, it will be interesting to see if his highly personal oeuvre can stake the same claim.

Too cool, I guess? Who has time for actual sitcoms, when there's imitation prestige drama product, the latest series from various IPs, or prestige "comedies" that aren't funny to watch?

Yeah, CBS and Chuck Lorre continue to crank them out, it seems, although I’m less sure if any of them are any good. I am surprised to hear the Night Court revival was a big hit, but I also haven’t watched it so I have no idea how good it actually is.

American Auto, Grand Crew, Home Economics, Kenan, Pivoting all come to mind as recent network sitcoms that got cancelled in the last year or two. They ranged from “perfectly pleasant” to “often very funny” (American Auto season 2 is the real standout in this regard), but none of them deserved to be ignored to the…

Yes, I definitely don’t consider it “great.” Chuck Lorre does seem to be able to generate multi-cam hits about as easily as breathing, so I know the style hasn’t died, but I also don’t think I would consider any of his shows actually good.