The Principle and the Pauper is a weird pivot point for me. I was so puzzled by why the writers thought it would be a good story the first time I saw it that I couldn't take it at face value. But, now that I'm able to look at it a little more objectively, I realize that it has a lot of funny stuff with some good…

If they go the extra mile and have a band member whose sole contribution is to just splash around inside a tank, then I am completely game for this.

lt may have actually aired this way originally and it was the one piece of music they couldn't secure for the DVDs; I know Paul Feig speaks briefly about it on the commentary. It seems like Neil Young's kind of tricky to license music from — Ed (which, it seems appropriate to say here, kind of picked up the dorky high…

That would be excellent. I read a David Simon interview wherein he stated that had The Wire gone on for six seasons the additional season would have been about immigration (albeit still ending with the media as the final season focus) which I really would have loved to have seen as well.

It is amazing how on top of putting a pin on all of the major relationships and story arcs that finale somehow also found time to give subplots to two of its most overlooked characters: Pete and Lutz.

I'm happy the show's back just so I can watch that new opening every week. I thought it was gorgeous.

Yeah, it hasn't taken flight yet (and I'd never expect any comedy to so soon in its run), but I'm still enjoying these more than I did the really early episodes of 30 Rock, Parks and Rec, or It's Always Sunny. I can't wait to see what the full potential of this show looks like.

If Kid Charlemagne isn't played next week these six years have been a waste.

Can anyone think of an instance when the show used a guest star in a meaner fashion? This one is absolutely brutal, and easily one of my favourites for that very reason.

I bet they would have done this story in season 9.

I actually think Patty and Selma calling everyone in the phone book is a pretty decent gag on its own, but that twist just launches it into the stratosphere.

Internet, finally live up to your full potential by identifying this podcast and episode for me: Paul F. Tompkins was the guest on this show (which should narrow things down), and told an incredibly endearing story I haven't heard him discuss anywhere else about (if I remember correctly) an outgoing "funny" airport…

Anybody know if Merge is going to continue reissuing their old albums? I've been gradually working through their catalogue, but I'm reticent to buy anything pre-Cup of Sand since the bonus downloads that came packaged with Here's Where the Strings Come In and Foolish were goddamn spectacular.

His guest appearance on The Simpsons is maybe the meanest use of a guest star in the show's history. Between that and him and Rick Moranis apparently being quite friendly with each other, I've got to give credit to Dick Cavett for his lack of vanity.

The Shine from Scott Adsit's Forehead as God.

There's a bit at the end of the Escape to the House of Mummies Part II commentary where Jackson and Doc do an impromptu riff of Billy eBay bidding on the Rusty Venture lunchbox solely as a means to explain why there's a continuity error with Jonas' hair that just kills me.

The Shadowman 9 commentary has amazing (tangentially-related to the episode) sections in which Jackson and Doc enthuse about The Eiger Sanction and their baseless theories on the behind-the-scenes dynamics of Bjork's original band The Sugarcubes.

There was also a book in which Joe got amnesia and tried to kill Frank, which was not nearly as awesome as that sounds or the cover made it out to be: http://www.hardyboys.co.uk/…

I haven't touched one of those books since I was a preteen so I may be giving them too much credit, but I remember being pleasantly surprised that the series' quippy, wise-cracking characters (Marco & Tobias) were actually amusing, as opposed to the cringe-inducing comedic styles of, say, The Boxcar Children (Benny's…

I would love to see him and Bill Hader perform dueling Alan Alda impressions.