Had Trump been a short-lived flash-in-the-pan candidate, indie bands would’ve had a nearly limitless pool of names to drawn from. Yet another tragedy of his presidency.

That’s all well and good, but honestly I’m more interested in hearing about the Clone High content of that Clone High panel.

I didn’t watch the episode and am assuming that the “Selma’s Exes” team was just a (solid) sign gag, but could we presume that that’s a team consisting of Sideshow Bob, Troy McClure, Lionel Hutz, and Disco Stu? Because that’s a nice thought. I’m glad those guys found a healthy hobby.

I won’t go as far to say that I think Takahata’s the best Ghibli filmmaker, but I’d absolutely put him on the same level as Miyazaki. I wish his work had more exposure outside of Japan, even if that means more people feeling absolutely decimated by The Tale of the Princess Kaguya’s ending.

Porco Rosso tends to be labelled as minor-Miyazki (if not minor Ghibli entirely), but it’s actually my favourite. Excepting perhaps Pom Poko, it hits a balance between sad/funny like few animated movies I’ve seen, and I will go to bat for its Michael Keaton-led English dub any day. (There is, I would argue, also a…

The last season of The Kids in the Hall is by no means their best, but I’m glad they made it anyway for the handful of sketches I adore. I’ve got no problem with them doing something similar if it means I can get another, say, Dipping Areas or Husk Musk.

If you had asked me at a certain age what my favourite TV show is, I might have actually said "Futurama Audio Commentaries". Like there are legitimately doodles of David X. Cohen and Ken Keeler in my high school notebooks.

There might be something to this, but I'm not sure Frank Oz was even on set for that movie. I think he dubbed in his voices later (which would kind of eliminate a lot of the potential for improv in itself).

1. Any issues I've had with Kermit since Steve took over in the '90s have been with how the character was written (too passive in the '90s, too bitchy in the recent sitcom), not with how he was performed. Steve came into an impossible situation. His work in that situation is still underrated.
2. I worry about my boys…

I finally gave Blank Check with Griffin and David a spin after seeing it mentioned here for the past, jeez, couple of years I guess. Shame on me for not checking it out sooner, because it's terrific: It's got a great investigative angle, it's well-researched, the film criticism is always interesting, it moves at just…

Give 'em Hell, Giselle

Last season I found myself preferring the Jimmy side of the show, in part because Kim and Chuck proved to be compelling characters in their own right. It's hard to sidestep the common we-know-where-this-is-going prequel pitfall, but my investment in the unknown fates of those characters worked wonders for dramatic…

I'm already buying up stock in prosthetic golfing fingers, just in case.

Are the other Ghibli films going to be represented here? I'd love an Only Yesterday-themed restaurant that served nothing but disappointing pineapple.

I still maintain that SCTV contained the single greatest sketch comedy cast ever assembled at the same time: John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrew Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, and Dave Thomas. All incredible, all hugely versatile, all of them doing career-best work. Unfortunately, this…

Ah yes, another example of Trump stealing a ridiculous storyline that should have been reserved for like season 11 of Veep.

This is it. This is the episode. This is the episode you finish and then plug your ears, close your eyes, and pretend that Breaking Bad never happened so that all of these characters can get a happy ending before their lives start falling apart. Pretend that from here on out Kim and Jimmy continue to practice law and…

Jim Henson's _________ Babies!

I don't want a spinoff so much as I just want this crew to drop a thirty minute stand-alone episode every now and again in the vein of "One Man's Trash", "The Panic in Central Park", or "American Bitch". Since most of the characters have gone their separate ways anyway, it'd be fun to get a handful of tightly…

"The Panic in Central Park" was a beautiful, dreamy episode — easily a high point for Marnie's character and the series as a whole — that could basically be removed from the series without affecting anything. Her "major breakthrough" should have come from that episode (and at the time, seemed to) rather than from the…