Maybe it’s like Netflix with their custom thumbnails, and the algorithm just thinks you’re pathetic. Uh, ;).

They did that door-closing-etc last week as well, possibly not followed by the boots, but I definitely drew the connection.

They’ll find something, don’t worry.  (The Boomers were the post-racism generation, he said as a very, very disappointed member of that cohort.)

See, I think your c) is a positive; the trailer (which I’m not going to look up right now), as I remember it, lays out the basic facts of what happens, but because it doesn’t give all the key details, when you (ok, me) realize what he’s done, it’s nauseating. The problem is also that the movie doesn’t communicate that…

I’m going to say “NBC streaming rights”, which is close to just shrugging my shoulders but I think it’s correct.  That is, NBC has sold, to broadcasters in other countries, the right to broadcast the show, but with the stipulation that no other outlet in that country be allowed to stream the show.

There’s a reason this season’s subtitle is “Frenemies”.

That explains why she took the part, but doesn’t explain why they offered it to her.

I think the motivating idea was “he can’t wear a cross, so what’s the opposite? a Star of David!” which unfortunately suggests that Jews are bloodsuckers.

Extra brands-on-shelves fact: in every supermarket in America, without exception (ok, as far as I know, but...), the Oreos will be at one end of the cookie aisle or the other; never in the middle surrounded by others. It’s a prominent spot and they pay for it.

“He was, like, ‘Oh, man, where’d you get that?’ So it worked.”

AV Club makes money?

Hahaha, I’ll be dead by 2030 so the joke’s on them!

• March 2, 2023: the north and south poles reverse, which “brings the continents back together.”

Seriously, they need maybe 5 of them per day, and it looks like they’ve outsourced it to some script that tries to guess the right data feed by machine learning.  Just type out the names yourselves, for God’s sake.

I would agree more if I had not muttered “It’s an AP English class” halfway through the setup.

I would agree more if I had not muttered “It’s an AP English class” halfway through the setup.

We needed a few more shots of his club foot to really understand it, so I’m still confused.

That’s what happens when you cast a Tony-winning star in a tiny role: people think you can’t have just cast her as Heroine’s Other Colleague for no reason, right? RIGHT?

His son is Hourman in Stargirl, by the way. (I just learned on WP that his mother’s maiden name is Green, which is sort of funny in context. Lou Sr, you don’t have to marry the color you wore!)

Per WP, “a Norman Lear sitcom opposite Charles Durning”, which based on the rest of Lear’s output looks like it never got made with anybody.