True. But Bob wrote there when (a) Sandler, Spade, and Farley ran the show, and (b) Lorne actually gave a shit about being edgy. Keep in mind that the 1995-96 season’s first show had, as the 10 to 1 sketch, the Chicken Lady and Mickey the Dyke hosting a public access show with Will Ferrell in a playpen as a man-baby.…

I didn’t know that was Mapplethorpe! Thanks for the edumacation.  Of course I think everyone kinda forgets that Mapplethorpe also took photographs that WEREN’T the subject of Congressional/Presidential agita.....

Easily the best overall show of the year. Not that this is a surprising result.... The only negative is it just reminds me how much I miss Bill Hader.

I shamefully confess that when I saw that my thought was “I know that’s a famous Annie Liebovitz portrait but I can’t remember who it was....”

I’d love to see Bob host, but it would be a very different kind of feel (assuming they let him be himself). I question whether the show would lean in to the often dark, hostile edge that Bob’s comedy has.  Of course, they let Hader be Hader, so...  Yeah, Bob 4 Host 2019!!!

Nothing - not even lazy writing - can dim Don Cheadle’s brilliance.

Also, the show was about 50% more entertaining if you just pretended he was doing a (killer) Tim Meadows impression for the entirety of the show.

I’ll admit that I only half-watched this week, which is becoming an increasingly common event. Some thoughts:

It embiggens the soul.

Tragically, listeners of these stations will be stuck listening to only the other 946,247,610,992,437,214 Christmas songs in existence.

Who’s in your three envelopes this year, Brendan?

He’s Fredo.

And you don’t have to worry about the electrical system going tits-up on you in the middle of a parking lot!

We don’t need Jeremy Renner to be a third wheel to a fantastic Mackie-Stan paring, dammit....  we need (NEED!!!) a Hawkeye/Black Widow buddy action/comedy.  STAT!  MAKE IT SO!!!!!

I think my favorite part was Linda’s interactions with the kids who came to the restaurant to trick or treat only to get the bitter drops. Especially the last one, where she was just “yeah.... yeah, I know. Hey, you guys want a burger? How about some sugar? You wanna take some sugar?”  Roberts has that character so…

Important thing to keep in mind here: this is only an issue because MLB, like the NFL, is too fucking cheap to put in sets of proper boundary cameras (that RF camera doesn’t count as it’s a TV camera designed to get field shots, not a cam on the boundary line to help with in/out calls) for use in replay reviews.

And…

The best thing about this kit — buy it now, by the way, just do it — is that you can actually play with it, since (when complete) it’s built like a brick shithouse.  My Millenium Falcon, on the other hand, is as delicate as a Faberge egg....

The best thing about this kit — buy it now, by the way, just do it — is that you can actually play with it, since…

The problem, though, is that it isn’t a very complex model. It’s basically two identical 2000-piece sets with a little drawbridge between them. Compare that to the Sydney Opera House one, or the Taj Mahal, which are much more visually interesting and would be more fun/complex to build.

The problem, though, is that it isn’t a very complex model. It’s basically two identical 2000-piece sets with a…

The worst part was that they didn’t even lose to the country.  It was just two guys named Trinidad and Tobago who happened to be hanging out by the pitch that day.....

You’re harsher on this ep than I would have been....

Point taken. It’s toward the end, when Michelle has just finished fighting the mean space doggies, and everything’s calmed down... and then the alien spaceship shows up. She looks up at it with a look of disbelief and just says “Oh, COME ON!!!!” Love it.