I remember our student teacher read The Indian in the Cupboard to us in 4th grade. He was amazing, he did voices for all the characters, really brought the book to life. And I’m sure there’s plenty of problematic stuff in it in retrospect, but the book at least gave you an inkling that natives aren’t all a monolith,…

I read The L-Shaped Room many years ago, after I’d seen the movie. It was surprisingly frank for the time, I thought, with the no-nonsense unwed mother and her multi-ethnic neighbors living in tenement poverty. A couple of good tips I learned: a baby doesn’t need a basinette, you can use a drawer; and if your landlady…

the only Indian in the Cupboard i acknowledge is the saag paneer in my pantry ya heard

She is being problematic with the angels now

Is Emma going full John McEnroe there?

Did she catch him behind the KFC with his Julie?

While the doc overall has worthy goals, I do wonder why you’d even bother steering an interview with him in this direction since, as has been pointed out, it has nothing to do with the shows he was on and generally concerns a phase of the network that was after his time there.

I’m really happy this didn’t turn into a “Marc Summers was sus” article.

Love me a ‘thusly’. 

I was thinking the same thing. I have a friend who was in a coma for months, nearly died about a dozen times in the hospital from asphyxiation, and has spent years rehabilitating...

As big a bummer as this is, he was like ten years older than I thought, so I guess he had a decent run. 

Just remember when you do a video retrospective: No crane shots!

He had a Gud run.

I’ll always picture him running off past the scorers’ table shouting “JACKASS!”

Damn.

Joe Flaherty was a beloved and iconic comedian and actor. You know what he’s doing now? He’s dead!

One of my favorite moments of his role on Freaks & Geeks is when Harold and Jean had a fight about her wanting to change after reading Lindsay’s diary. Jean is crying on the bed and he comes in and gives a heartfelt speech about how everything he does is for her.

He was such a great talent.

I noticed that Brian Doyle-Murray was a writer for SCTV in its early years and, as great as Flaherty was as Guy Caballero, I wonder if it was originally meant for Brian.

I’ve always felt she was the most beautiful actress of all time and she had the chops too. It’s amazing she wasn’t a full-on movie star but perhaps that was for the best. She had a long career and by her own account a very nice life not to mention her sanity. Who could ask for anything more? She also aged stunningly.