With Hudsucker, there's also the rewatch pleasure of realizing that the overbearing elevator attendant is Prezbylewski from The Wire.

In fairness, there probably wasn't anyone else in the theater.

Uneasy lies the head that wears the, uh, crown.

sounds like my wedding night

The tagline in a print ad for a condom, with a head-on pic of the unopened product, that absolutely must be made.

You kidding? The fact that his better half tells him to make his own goddamn sandwich is a big reason why he's at Breitbart in the first place.

I like all the annual changes to this show. It's cool to be reminded each year of whose career isn't going as well as they'd hoped.

Are we still talking about "ball-slappy"?

Is that from Being Bill Cosby?

The word or the game?

Or maybe just telling.

A Manichean good/bad approach is precisely the kind of thing that leads to dubious claims such as the 3:10 to Yuma remake being better than Shutter Island. (In context, I assume you're talking about the remake, which I don't actually think is so bad. But still.)

I'll see your praise of the movie, and even raise you an it-actually-had-a-lot-more-effective-emotional-and-thematic-content-than-I-expected-for-what-was-reviewed-as-Scorcese-merely-doing-a-genre-exercise.

I don't understand. He's not making a reference. He's using a more recent instance of culture to help clarify what he's criticizing in a more distant instance of culture, in case the reader should need it. I suppose you could argue that he didn't really need to do it at all, but the refusal to keep reading because you…

You can tell they totally just pulled that out of Aupelius' Golden Ass.

That's not very positive, Captain!

Neck in neck?

And the Emmy for Acting Which is Ridiculous…

Action, reaction…so I guess it's kind of a prequel?

What did you think the dead audience was?