Two minutes of the good stuff:

“Wevery time”? OK Lily von Shtupp.

Proof:

Goddamnit, I had posted a comment about vise vs. vice but apparently this is a UK English vs NA English thing like today’s Wordle.  On the upside my office is empty so I can scream my “GODDAMNIT” into the void like Bob Odenkirk.

Gwen, I read about 9000 times more reviews than I watched the shows you were reviewing. Thanks for your awesome writing around here and on The Takeout.

The last time I bobbed for apples was a house party probably 20 years ago. I drunkenly decided to replicate something I’d seen on TV (pre-internet, so probably on “America’s Funniest Home Videos” or similar RIP Saget), dunked my whole head and basically windmilled a couple of dozen apples out of the washtub they were…

I remember seeing this when it aired and I think it imprinted some kind of “this is what is funny” template in my pre-teen malleable brain. At the time his was a really unique comic voice that influenced a lot of what was to come.

“Home Movies” established that HJB yelling at HJB is the funniest thing in existence.  I’m down.

I had a new appreciation for bus fights in general after watching this:

Sometimes I think my 30-plus-years-long crush on Keanu Reeves is waning. Then I think of Keanu and puppies.

His paternal grandmother is Chinese-Hawaiian, IIRC.

TIL SNL Japan existed for six episodes back in 2012:

GodDAMMIT I can’t find a clip of his fake promo for “Warner Bros’ Greatest Classical Hits” from SNL where he sings “KILL THE WAAABBIT KILL THE WAAAABBIT” but I found this story from Bah Bodenkirk about Jeremy Irons yelling at him and Rob Schneider and my head would explode if I heard this tape:

“KILL DA WAAAABIT KILL DA WAAAABIT...”

For reference:

Last line Lui->Liu

FYI Wikipedia has a plot synopsis up.  It’s probably not what you think but still exactly what you’d think:

Good grief it took me until today to fully connect Lynch’s Dr. Yueh with Albert from Quantum Leap.

Twenty-odd years ago I returned a credit card receipt with full details legible on it to Casey Affleck along with his lunch leftovers that he’d left on a shelf in the store I was working in. He was kind of a sullen dick. Summer Phoenix, however, was delightful.

They were shipped to PQ and ON: