To be fair about the lap band thing, the joke was that the crew didn't know about them, because they never happened. Jim was just explaining that he manipulated the date of the panel thing to line up with Dwight's wedding so the PBS crew would fly people in for both.

I don't know that "taking something the owner hands to you" counts as "thievery." That said, I don't know how she expected to get a baby out of the country with no documentation.

Yeah, the only real problem I had with DeAngelo was how Jim basically orchestrated him becoming a vegetable and nobody cared

I'm a longtime Flaming Lips fan and I've seen them in concert half a dozen times, but I gotta say their current fixation on genetalia and effluvium is getting old

I don't get how you could see Super 8 and come away thinking it's cynical. You could basically smell JJ's earnest hero worship for Spielberg emanating from the screen. Reverent homage != cynical air-quotes.

Every time they show a scene from Hit List I am further convinced it was written by the guidance counselor from Mr. Show

I get what you're saying. What I'm saying is that my whole point was that it's impossible to isolate the other parameters in this situation so saying "all you have to do is isolate all the other parameters" is silly.

Dear Jesus, when I'm done writing this letter, I'm gonna throw it in the garbage, because at least the garbage is real

Payson?

Oh, so that's how it's done. You just control all the other parameters. Thanks.

Yeah I don't know how you can isolate "having a bowling scene" from the 500,000 other parameters that make a movie good or bad (or in any way related to eachother). If Kingpin didn't feature bowling, would it have made more money than Superman III, which did?

“A cursed superhero never sells as well as a guardian superhero,” one like Superman who acts as a protector, he added.

I think it's mostly just a case of the two actors having absolutely no sexual chemistry, much like Troy and Britta on Community. I love both characters individually but them as a couple always felt weird and uncomfortable.

Yeah, I hope we see what they pitched. It's kind of a cheat to talk up how great Don and Ted's creative is and then not show what they pitched for this giant client.

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The first one is really in a class by itself insofar as almost every line being eminently quotable, but III and IV are very good as well. II is pretty skippable (and there's basically no continuity between any of them).

It's pretty bad, but I feel like it could be much LESS bad if it was just edited down to make it less John Woo-ey.

I was curious what car it was. Potentially it might be the Camaro too (released in 1967 so the timeline is a bit off, but Man Men has played similarly fast and loose with the product dates before).

Yeah, singing "Hit the Road, Jack" and showing the car was a pretty weak-ass pitch. It seems like kind of a cop-out that we never see the actual pitch that they sold to Chevy (though maybe we will in the next episode or some such).

I called it as soon as Peggy left. No, I called it in season 1! No, before the show even began! I WIN DAMNIT