That’s interesting, thanks! I can see how, since most of the episodes are one-off stories, they don’t need Reed to guide a season-long arc, so it’s possible he’s more hands-off. Good to know.

You put a lot of weight on the credited writer of various episodes.

Could be worse, he could have signed with the Tampa Bay Bucs.

Friends was never part of the NBC thing, NBC was only the network that aired the show, but they didn’t make it. WB made Friends and has always owned it. 

This actually reminds me of a similar plug-in that would foil NSA snooping of your email by randomly inserting words like “jihad” “bomb” “target” etc. into the unseen bits of your outgoing messages. The idea was that if there enough false positives, it would screw up NSA tracking.

When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead

I would have loved to have been there the day he acted out the entire True Romance script on the set of Perfect Strangers, while in character as Balki Bartokamous.

games in Montreal would also have the disadvantage of selling tickets in loonies, which are currently worth about 76 cents on the dollar.

My favorite part is the second baseman hovering out of sight behind Tovar trying to get the cheap out by tagging him when he stands, and failing.

Is the filmmaker connected to AVClub somehow?

If I’m reading this article right:

I hear this season is actually comparable to years past, but, I haven’t seen the data.

I think the argument is “if it’s cool there shouldn’t be any penalties”

He knew that Emma would bet enough to cover him (by exactly $1) betting it all.

It actually kind-of backfired on him, IIRC... he “should” have had them come due all at once when I was 16 or 17, so that they didn’t appear as “income” on my FAFSA. Having 30k drop in my name my senior year would have limited how much I could have gotten in financial aid. But the extra years of interest at 18% more…

This is how my parents paid for my college education.

He tied strong to a ball? 

I’m confused... the joke in Blazing Saddles isn’t that it’s 1874 and therefore he can do whatever because that’s how things are now in this day and age, but, that it’s 1874 and therefore he pre-dates Hedy Lamarr and so she’s infringing on his name and not vice-versa.

/unexpecteddouglasadams