Yeah, I'll withhold judgement until we see what happens in season two. I totally bought Jimmy's decision to not go into the interview, i mostly just thought his dialogue with Mike at the very end was a lot more on-the-nose than I'm used to seeing from these shows.

I really liked the season as a whole, but that final scene did feel a bit.. something. I don't think "abrupt" is the right word, since the whole season has basically been pushing Jimmy/Saul toward it, but it felt odd for Jimmy to make such a definitive choice and also talk about said choice in such a blunt fashion…

I don't think it's that big of a deal if you're going to a page specifically to watch a video. Obviously videos that are just embedded in some larger article autoplaying is pure evil, of course.

I think they were just in Otterboxes or whatever.

Maybe they were — gasp — not the latest model. Which sorta makes sense, I doubt a correctional facility/z-grade community college endeavor would spring for iPad Air 2s or whatever.

I have to say that I agree that the added length is hurting the show. It just feels padded out and overlong. I'm sure there are just as many jokes-per-episode as in the NBC episodes, but the rhythm feels all wonky and it just draws attention to the diminished cast.

Yeah, I don't think the whole game is super easy, more that it's pretty easy to blast through with the bare minimum needed to complete the game, but the difficulty goes up exponentially if you're a completist and want all 120 stars, which has pretty much been the formula since Super Mario Bros 3.

If you think DK64 was bad you should try that fucking Starfox game they made for Gamecube.

Yeah, it looks like they made all the characters and objects detailed and sharp looking but didn't add in any additional non-functional textures or visual detail. Plus, the increased draw-distance makes it look really empty.

Plus his movies tend to be stronger structurally since each scene has a reason to exist and flow from one to the next on tighter logic than just "Will Ferrell flails around until he hits on something funny"

Wind's blowing up a gale today.

I don't think "most of them" are done that way. In fact in several interviews I've seen Adam McCay discuss pretty much this exact thing, saying how painstakingly written Anchorman was.

I remember Patton Oswalt saying he worked as a script doctor for Owen Wilson for a couple of his Shanghai Noon era studio comedies, and when he'd get the scripts they had sections that literally just said "Owen Wilson improvises something hilarious here."

I also have a soft spot for "Flowers for Matthew" even though it's almost as hoary of a sitcom cliche as doing an "It's a Wonderful Life" episode just for how specifically weird Matthews approximation of genius is.

Maybe ME!!

You kind of have to see it in context for the joke to make sense, the idea is that Jimmy wrote a management book, which was a huge hit in Japan, and was then re-translated back into English for release in the US. It's based off of Mark Twain's re-translation of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calavaras County from…

Glad to see this under-appreciated show getting some love in it's 20th anniversary year. I loved it whenever I was able to catch it during it's initial run (which I assume must have been in the 4th-5th seasons since I was 11 when it began airing).

I never claimed to be an expert, I've just seen "o hai" around since way before The Room was a thing, so I was conjecturing.

My criticism is that The Room is entertaining because he was trying to make something good, but was inept. The Neighbors is him intentionally trying to make something ineptly and pretend thats what he was doing all along, which is just lazy and boring.

The problem is that intentionally bad isn't entertaining. Tim and Eric have made a career out of satirizing bottom-of-the-barrel entertainment, but they actually write jokes and have clever ideas behind it, which Wiseau isn't capable of.