Look at Allison Tolman's Surprise Top Five. This is not some sort of pop quiz. It's asking people to name 5 things they like that are similar to things they do.

Why would that mean anything? As long as there wasn't a gun to his head, you'd think that somebody who writes a show about a guy fairly implausibly moving up the ranks of Washington D.C. would be able to name a couple of funny movies about politics extemporaneously.

So his top 5 political comedies include a (very funny) promotional video, a documentary, a roast, and a movie he concedes isn't really a comedy? Okay.

I'll play dissenter here and say that while the Laura stuff is far from the most compelling stuff on the show, it's more interesting than people give it credit for. @avclub-7aee1b75b527e215f31e20a5c4e7a768:disqus writes "We’ve spent so little time with her that we don’t have a good sense of why this is happening,…

It pays to be the Danish Joshua Jackson.

It really was a jam packed episode compared to the more leisurely, cerebral pace of the show, but I thought there were a few real wonderful quiet setpices and moments, and they really benefited from the contrast.

Are you aware of basic human sexuality, or the fact that 99% of porn is bought by males

Even crueler was how, on broadcast, when the empire ended there was the usual "Stay tuned for scenes…" AND THEN THEY NEVER CAME.

Here because I just finished Song of… and was looking for a review (which apparently, they never did). That was one of the more revealing and insightful types of these books I've ever read.

I realize I'm six months late on this, but I read this and liked it.

That's really interesting. Thanks!

I think the whole thing with Malvo stealing the Desk Officer's glasses right from under him and the guy not noticing them on this guy (who moments ago, was not wearing glasses) was a bridge too far.

I was probably 9 or so when that episode aired, so seeing Fink at 18 is my record for longest time between hearing a joke and then getting it.

That's so funny — there's something about the way the actor (who, hey, is apparently deaf in real life) signs — so exaggerated, almost theatrical — that I just assumed it was a weird Coen-y flourish, that these two guys were taking the piss out of everyone by pretending one of them is death, and signing nonsense back…

HBO did that mini-series already. It was called Lucky Louie and you NEVER EVEN WATCHED IT

Man, this is one of Cross's Top 3 funniest line deliveries on this show.

Is Laugesen still a member of Parliament? I thought he resigned/left public office shortly after the scandal involving the receipts.

TWIST! The AvV Club was really the popular "AV Club" website all along!

I'm guessing that you're going off the published script, right? I know that that has something to the effect of "behind him, the top keeps spinning" which, sure, looks one way. But there are so many variables there — the two biggest being that who knows how the script was cleaned up as it transition from production to…

Look, the key is not only that, as @avclub-d0cf409eb912cc0cc950b41b6d892d07:disqus points out, the top clearly begins to wobble as it cuts to black, but that the music cue at the end is clearly suggesting the thing tipping over.