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As far as I’m concerned the only proper place to store a bottle of vodka is the freezer.  And another name for vodka with complexity is gin. 

I see the flaw with this review.

I’m really not.

Green ones taste the way palmolive green dish soap smells

And now my hitherto untitled Lena Dunham spoof is starting to come together. I’ll call it “Girls Camping with Tiny Furniture”.

The best reason to buy vodka is to make your own infused spirits.

Congrats, you just made me feel bad for stop-motion sea creatures.

No mention of Albert Brooks’s dad, who died after delivering a killer set at the Friars Club Roast of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez?  Or, Tommy Cooper, the British comedian, who died halfway through his set on live TV?

And we can’t forget Dick Shawn, whose absurdist act with shades of Andy Kaufman actually had the whole crowd thinking his death from a heart attack in the middle of one was just part of it so they all sat there laughing, even as he kept lying there unmoving. Finally they just started awkwardly trickling out, and found

I do enjoy it a ton. I taped if off one of those retro channels and despite the alarming amount of commercials for men with catheters, it still holds up as an all time great bad movie.

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You know my long time love of SCTV, Bittman. To me, what cemented my love was “The Nobel” - who else but SCTV makes a parody of “The Oscar” which bombed and is only remembered by bad movie buffs? And this was done in the early 80's, way before the Internet and the cult of bad moviedom would grow.

B. Dalton bookseller, here I come...

Maybe this reading works for the first like three seasons, but Roger Sterling seems more like an example of someone who evolves with the times. His acid use is depicted as opening up new horizons for him (even if it conveniently goes unmentioned for the last couple of seasons), and he falls for an age-appropriate

“All these years I thought it would be the ulcer. I did everything they told me. I drank the cream, ate the butter. Then I get hit with a coronary.”

not imaginary, but the catholic church is pretty terrifying.  

How could you leave out the Ko Ko Ru Kai? They ran an illegal but internationally known full contact martial arts tournament right in the middle of Hong Kong for years, right under the nose of the authorities! Hell, people got killed!

Yes my lord

You’d have to revoke my food writer’s card if I described “tarragon as tasting like tarragon.