On a side note, I am rewatching Parks & Recreation, and am yet again gobsmacked by how funny it is (I am still in the early goings; season 3). I also have been relistening to the Comedy Bang Bang best-of episodes, which reoriented me to the brilliance of the late, great Harris Wittels, whose singular comic voice keeps…

Indeed! I’m a horror movie buff, but only in the sense that I compulsively read synopses on Wikipedia. I don’t think I’ve actually seen a horror movie since... The Ring maybe? 

Sowing mistrust in the press (and in objective fact) is an “assault” on the press, probably even more than spying on reporters.  He doesn’t need to “shut down” the New York Times to make half the country believe everything in it is “fake.”

Your McDonald’s served rice noodles? 

I can’t believe I forgot the series didn’t start with 3D. I had a shareware version of the second and loved it.

Ash is a great comparison, that I never thought of (though, if I recall, Duke even uses AOD one-liners).  

One year for Christmas, we bought my father-in-law Springsteen tickets. He repaid us with Neil Diamond tickets, which we thought was a hilariously lopsided deal. Neil Diamond, really?

But where a game like Chrono Trigger was worth $80 (same with FFIII, same cost), I remember plunking down $80-90 on Extreme-G, a middling WipeOut clone on N64!

You got me—I was really just upset that you don’t share my sensibilities, and I came up with all of that explanation of my position to try to hide it. I’m glad you ignored everything I said in favor of dismissing my argument as empty favoritism!

Look, I get the argument you are trying to make, but you are dying on the wrong hill by choosing this article. That hot take on The Office (which completely ignored that it was satire) was clickbait and steaming hot garbage, and worthy of scorn.

Caveat: I didn’t see the speech, and have never seen Veep. But, yes, that is Matt Walsh, one of the four founders (including Amy Pohler) of the influential Upright Citizens Brigade improv school—or, more importantly in my mind, stars of the 1990s sketch show of the same name.  Brilliant comedian.

Well, it was just fine until the aliens.  

Shia Labeuf, obvs.

This is a dumb thing to argue about.

Yup, also Super Baseball Simulator 1.000 on SNES. 

Ohhhh. BUD hole. 

You do naht see the problem?

I did indeed read this in Captain Murphy’s voice.

Can be two things, etc.

Mean, but fair. Mashups can be great, art even. Avalanches anyone?