This recent essay is pretty close to what you're suggesting, at least in terms of Randy: http://chasingthedionysian….

If this happens, I demand that they enlist Martin Short to play Pierre Trudeau again.

Hey, since we're talking about the Wonder Showzen finale here, FUN FACT: There's an alternate audio track for that episode on the DVD that's just Nico Muhly's (often beautiful) score. Possibly more useful still: When the "Cooperation" episode splits into three simultaneously playing episodes, you can hit the Audio…

"Alright, enough talkin' with the dogs, here."

I love Kaputt. It's like hearing the soothing moans of a New Pornographer tapped by a Steely Dan.

Having listened to all the commentaries on Space Ghost Vol. 2, that scene strikes me as a really accurate portrayal of George Lowe (right down to Frylock's inability to get a word in edge-wise).

It never stopped being funny to me how many stories were instigated by some weirdo(s) basically just showing up at the Aqua Teen's house, and them reacting.

Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future.

Bus Driver's Song. For some reason they never performed it on the series despite crafting the perfect setup for it, which couldn't have been easy. It's sad, funny, and kind of beautiful.

Rachael Harris at least spoke well of it in her WTF interview. She said she only left the show because her (now ex-)husband didn't want to live in New York. I think she only did about twelve segments during the handful of months she was there, unfortunately.

Eugene Levy and Rick Moranis do some schtick together in that movie, right? I kind of want to see it just for that. They're not really thought of as a core duo on SCTV the way Andrea/Catherine, John/Eugene, and Dave/Rick are, but I love pretty much every sketch they did together.

I'm trying to find a non-smug way to gently point out that it was recorded during the Abbey Road sessions and not the Let It Be sessions as this article states, but you know what? You've besmirched my beloved "Old Brown Shoe" and late '60s George Harrison in general. How dare you. Consider my tone smug.

Speaking as a viewer who spends way too much time worrying about the life of Ken Cosgrove (of all characters), I was really happy to see some slight resolution to the Peggy/Ken relationship. Since Stan became Peggy's #1 work buddy in season 6 it's easy to forget that Peggy and Ken were actually pretty close and…

Hey now, she constantly performs to her own laughter, and it's endearing as fuck.

I'm still bummed that I never got a Sam and Jason-helmed Canada-centric spinoff called, like, The D-Eh?-ly Show or something. I'm a little embarrassed to say that I know a lot more about American politics than I do my own country's, largely due to The Daily Show's influence. I demand an entertaining education on…

Unfortunately, this is the last Burns episode I can think of that really works. His inability to deal with the outside world works beautifully with the story here, but beyond this episode that — combined with his cartoonishly pathetic health — pretty much became his default characteristic. There's funny material to be…

It barely qualifies as a joke, but Skinner's "Well, uh, I'm gonna take advantage
of this rare opportunity even if you children aren't interested" line absolutely destroys me. It's such a perfectly observed bit of unapologetically dorky teacher behaviour.

It's disheartening that there are only two appearances for Troy McClure (and zero for Lionel Hutz) this season, but at least this is also the year of amazing one-off characters (Scorpio, Grimes, Roy, etc.).

This is just a preview of said interview, but if I recall correctly the discussion doesn't go much deeper than what's here: https://vimeo.com/63424614

In a somewhat recent interview Sam Simon more or less confirmed that that was the basis for the episode; Simon allegedly ghostwrote huge parts of it as well.