You say something vaguely asinine and random in all caps, I immediately read it in David Lynch's "Gordon Cole" voice.

Air Bud: Rape Dane?

I think the use of little people this season is pointed pettiness. Michael J. Anderson was always a puppet master in Lynch's work, moving behind the scenes, smarter than most and morally ambivalent- almost certainly inspired by literal rocket scientist Anderson, who came up with the "talking backwards in the Lodge"…

Can Sue Sue Heck transfer to this school somehow?

Thomas Ligotti, the father of pop-cuture uncanny along with Lynch, calls this the "showbiz effect."

The "Sycamore Trees" mythos goes deep, and leads into one of my favorite (possibly apocryphal) Lynch stories. As the story goes, David Lynch had a fascination in the 1970s and 1980s with musical theatre, and not good musical theatre. Rather, he was fascinated with bottom of the barrel kitsch musicals, and wanted to…

People who say "if there is a BET, where's WET" have never heard of Freeform.

No, the Scandinavian heavy metal ABBA and AC/DC tribute band.

I was at a thrift shop and they had the audio book version on a box set of eight tracks. I should have bought it.

I did Sweeney Todd with a gay Judge Turpin who referred to the female sexual anatomy as "looking like a sweaty Richard Nixon."

He is, like Sondheim, a well-meaning but prickly sexual deviant. The stories of what happens in the Sondheim brownstone are notorious, urban legend or not.

Honestly, if they ditch the kid sidekick, I wouldn't immediately hate a Blues Brothers 3. Would it have the magic of the original? No, but these two groups are both dying: hefty blues-loving character actors, and classic blues and R&B legends.

Rumor was that they considered going one step further- canceling this show and presenting a revived King of Queens. They couldn't get enough of the alumni onboard apparently (if the rumor is to be believed, anyway).

I've been seeing that phrase pop up more and more in pop culture- did "Into the Woods" seep in more than I realized, or does that aphorism come from another source?

I can't stop dissecting the concept of Johnny's therapy teddy bear. As some have pointed out, it's got the face of Lynch's cartoon character from DumbLand, but it also appears to have had its face (its identity, per se) ripped off. It's like a Teddy Ruxpin with the plush taken off the face… maybe Johnny chewed on it…

Isn't the conventional wisdom that John was a clown who wanted to be an actor/musician, and Jim was an actor/musician who wanted to be a clown? Neither was ever totally comfortable in the other's shoes, despite trying again and again to fit there.

Soon she will have an inexplicable pirate accent too.

If it's not Lin, or to a lesser extend Daveed Diggs, saying "starring someone from Hamilton" won't get you anywhere. Oak, like Leslie Odom, Jr., is a very talented jobber, not a rising media personality like Lin and Diggs have become.

He was an odd casting choice- a performer who wasn't enthused about being an actor-muso or doing much audience interactivity in a show built around actor-musos and audience interactivity.

It could be. But I'll add that Sondheim beyond the top tier of popularity/accessibility (Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, arguably Company) is both an acquired taste and not for all markets. See the recent Sondheim parody on SNL for a demonstration of how much of his more cerebral work looks to outsiders.