Going with a short, fat guy as "Jonah" would have been too obvious; much better to go with the tall, gangly guy. Jokes are funnier when you're punching up.

Has Patton Oswalt never heard Tom Waits? Have you?

Uh… an antiques dealer who enjoys the piece and probably thinks it's worth more than that.

TTBBFT! Bill and Opus 2016!

Cool. Anyway, I missed breakfast, so I'm on my way to Burger King. It's a wonderful restaurant!

My older brother took me to an Aerosmith show in '87, when GnR was opening for them. Had the tour started a month later, GnR would have been the headliner. You're right - they got scorching hot in no time at all, but it was completely justified because Appetite was/is SUCH a terrific album.

"… Axl Rose’s eyeliner and blow-dried hair, didn’t have the crossover appeal necessary to transport GN’R from its hair-metal roots into the mainstream."

There are some duds in season 4, but at least skip ahead and watch "Sea Tunt."

I'm speaking of the Deadspin and Jalopnik communities specifically; the comments on Gawker and Jezebel and some of the other affiliated boards are bad, but that's just a function of the community itself being pretty terrible. It's still a better system that what gets used most places online.

That also means that the comments on Jalopnik (and Deadspin) are often very smart and very, very funny. The nonsense remains buried in the grays. And this is spoken as someone who comments quite a lot over there and only occasionally is allowed to be viewed.

Nothing against Faith, but I'd sub in Roy Blount Jr. Mo Rocca's awesome.

Jalopnik's required reading every day, and I'm not even THAT much of a car guy. And Deadspin's the best sports site out there, bar none. Sucks that they're both affiliated with Gawker, and I'm REALLY hoping they both survive the inevitable bankruptcy.

Poundstone's definitely on the "B" list for NPR listeners, though; she's terrific on "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me."

The best joke of the episode was when the saleman referred to himself as the "Sofa Jester" instead of the "Sofa King" that you expected.

What the fuck is a "beadsheet"? Is that something I can buy in Los Vegas?

Before she met Gus, she kept going back to her horrible, gross, living-at-home, coke-addicted boyfriend. And she figured out why in this last episode; she's desperately afraid to be alone. That's why she needs to spend some time without Gus in her life, maybe just she and Bertie for a while, so she can realize that…

I like to think that when season two opens, we're going to see Gus and Mickey kissing outside the convenience store. And then Mickey takes a step back and tells Gus that she'll see him in a year. Because it was really a dick move on his part, now that she's finally figured out that she needs to fix herself, that he…

Like, ever, or just in the past year?

If this was ANYONE else's movie, I'd just assume that was someone fucking around with the wiki page.

VR Helmets = Marvin, from Hitchhiker's Guide. Oh, Alan Rickman…