(Two years later)

I come two years later to say...this is not far from Los Espookys.

I can confirm the cheese-in-a-plastic-globe thing.

OK, I JUST realized that “Evie” is “EV”, emotional vampire.  Unless this was explicit in S1?

I’ve seen (what I presume is) the clip, and I’m worried that Quaid’s Boimler, who’s perfectly appropriate for his animated series, will be intolerable here. OTOH I loved his blue-tinted hair.

Sounds tricky to implement correctly but...wow, unusually intelligent response from a corporation. Make the product better? Crazy talk, usually!

I would like to know the base salary though, for completeness. I expect it to be low-ish because it would be the same as for shows that pay residuals, and the low initial pay is with the understanding that there might be more money coming later.

Huh.  It’s still a weird decision to go so meta, and the script is credited to both Ephron sisters so it’s not like they didn’t have the ability to do otherwise/better.

If you haven’t seen 22 Jump Street: the meta is turned WAY up (“Yes, we’re just going to do the same shit again!”) and don’t miss the fake trailers for the next 10 movies in the series at the very end.

“oh, people think dwarves are all short, but actually only some of us are”

I like conceptually that the B plot of this episode is about terrible customer service.

I’m going to agree with a lot of this — I mean, look it’s Carol Kane....for like 3 scenes in the first ep and then a bigger role in #3 but in the past, and we’re halfway through the season already. Also, this whole thing isn’t as good as last year’s Vulcan Hijinx, although it’s hard to top the comedy of doing a body…

I really loved the moment, late in the episode, when Mount is bring a tray of something or other over the others, and something else happens that clearly raises the tension in the room, and he silently adjusts his course and ends up just looping back to his kitchen.

It means you can sing karaoke to it.

SLJ sitting at a table and talking with someone is generally good. See also both his big Cheadle scenes, the firing one and the one in this ep.  “Acting!” [makes Jon Lovitz arm-sweep but is also serious]

I do notice her end credit in each episode so maybe not far off.

Yes: the thing to learn is that, with the bosses in particular, when they turn red for an unblockable attack, your dodge isn’t going to do it (unless you’re far enough away to not get hit anyway).  You must, must, learn to “perfect parry” as I think it’s called.

Too much corn hubris, for sure.

Also, rewatchability: there just so much going on in ATSV that I’m sure if I saw it again without having to pay attention for plot I’d find a lot of things I didn’t notice before.

Like when Brooke literally is invisible when she’s briefly “not in the industry”.