True enough. Those two were, in fact, funny-looking.

I think Kingdom of the Crystal Skull's Steven Spielberg could do it justice.

Fargo is Fargo because the violence and depravity are done by normal-looking folks in a normal, small-town setting. Take it to the Moon and it can never be Fargo. It might be a fine movie, but it can't be Fargo.

And and and and and

Wasn't Homer a blatant, watered-down ripoff of Al Bundy, Archie Bunker, Fred Flintstone, and Ralph Kramden?

I'm wondering how reliable numbers are for a lot of these.

You want a real downer, from an unrelated work in an unrelated genre, then… no, I'm not going to do it. It's too cruel.

I love me some Lonesome Dove, but this is meant to be a guide to the classics rather than the late hangers-on, and I think its focus on the heyday of the 50s and 60s is well-chosen.

This article is great, and its curating of episodes is great. It's inspired me to watch (in some cases rewatch) some highlights from these important series. The only thing I'd criticize in this piece it is that it has something of that defensive, apologistic tone that often runs through articles about Westerns, folk…

I can't get that Facebook link to work, it says content not found…

Is that a picture of Green Day? I don't know anything about punk or most music, I fully admit, but I think I know that Green Day is not considered real punk by real punk fans.

I'm a big fan of surreal Python. I hadn't considered Season 3 one of my favorites, but I think these reviews are making a good case that it's one of the most surreal, and I'm appreciating it more in that light. Palin's bit in the mortuary, for example, I find quite gratifying.

I think you have to count him, he became president only in the final months of WWII and remained in office until January 1953, many years after the war's end. He really set the tone for the Cold War, for better or worse.

Could it still be irony, though? I have a liberal friend whose internet presence is somewhat similar to that, but it's all ironic. Still, you're right, a lot of those retweets seem devoid of any satirical intent. It all just seems too much like the Platonic ideal of this kind of person to be real, but I could well be…

I'm glad you feel I'm speaking to you in a pleasant tone, that is always my intent. However, my post that included my list was not directed to you, but to Ham, as you can see at the top of it next to my name. This is the first post I've written that is addressed to you. Thank you for the offer to a more in-depth…

After I posted my first list, I edited it, raising Truman to a more respectable position. I have mixed feelings about him, because I feel that on a macro level his response to the early Cold War was wrong: meet force with force, contain the USSR everywhere. Had I been around at the time, I think would have preferred a…

My beloved Fort Worth is name-dropped in a few great Progressive Country songs, namely "Cold Dog Soup" by Guy Clark, and "The Dark" by Guy Clark. And he's not even from there! But he's one of the greatest songwriters of all time, so his lyrical love of Funkytown is a source of pride to me. I'm not a huge Steve Earle…

(I'm 99% sure you're arguing with a spoof account. But the fact that I can't be totally sure of that shows what a decent impersonation it is.)

I think it's a spoof account. The Reagan/flag picture is too on the nose, and the ellipses all contain exactly three periods. Real conservative commenters use a random number of periods between and within sentences.

Spoilers at the beginning of every movie or TV show or book or game or sporting event I start.