I like how Ocean Waves occupies this sweet spot of mild indifference where it hasn’t been forgotten per se, but no English company will ever bother dubbing it.

Like any narrative-less sketch comedy film, I get a little tired of it around the one hour mark. But man, the animation, tone, music, humour style, and observations are just delightful in that movie. Definitely underrated, and paved the way for the peerless Tale of the Princess Kaguya later on.

The hardest I ever laughed while playing a video game was a moment in the sequence leading up to Mother 3's finale where you’re navigating a “dungeon” that’s effectively a maze of bathroom stalls. It worked for me for a bunch of reasons:

I’m going to be thinking about the journey this post took me on for the rest of the day.

Slight correction - you actually have to go all the way back to Dark Side of the Moon’s “Time” to find a track where all four members are credited for the same piece of music. Wish You Were Here credits “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” to Waters/Gilmour/Wright, and “Dogs” gives a dual credit to Waters/Gilmour.

No snark, I really appreciated how passionate she came across about her work. Kudos to any celebrity who walks away from more work in favour of spending time with their family (lookin’ at you, Moranis and Carvey).

Choosing to believe that It’s Such a Beautiful Day is only absent from this list because its first two thirds were technically created and released as short films during the 2000s, because that movie is too beautifully bleak and life-affirming and heartrending and funny not to mention.

The episodes that aired this decade are from the second half of season 6 to season 9, and if there’s any run of the show I’d jettison into the sun, it’s absolutely that one (Carell’s final episode notwithstanding).

I don’t think the current generation of comedy stars see a movie built around them as the pinnacle of what they’re trying to achieve anymore, since movies like that don’t really blow up the box office these days. The ultimate goal is probably more often seen as getting your own prestige-y show, like Master of None, or…

A couple years back I picked up a used paperback copy of his essays/commentaries that was published during his SNL days for $0.01 on Amazon. It made me sad that I paid so little, because the book really, really made me laugh. As you'd imagine his stuff works perfectly on the page.

I’ve been watching the ‘88-’89 season recently, and his presence on the show never ceases to amaze me. It’s like they plunked a newspaper opinion columnist from a Wes Anderson movie onto national television, and kept him there for six years even though the audience barely ever responds to him. His low-key, tweedy…

There was some good stuff here, but I think it might have worked better if they had done this as a mini-series taking place at the public access station with a lengthier interview in each episode. That way you’d get more of the classic Ferns material (largely the best stuff in this movie), as well as incorporate the…

I think it’s seasons 19-20 (‘93 - ‘95), at the tail-end of Sandler’s tenure, when it was most in the dumps culturally and ratings-wise.

(Subjective) Counterpoint: While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Savoy Truffle, and Taxman (arguably a Harrison/Lennon song, but still). At least four of the songs he had already written for All Things Must Pass are also top-shelf. He was absolutely deserving of more album real estate on a follow-up additional Beatles LP.

George so strongly siding with John in the early ‘70s was always slightly confusing to me since John so often seemed to be conveniently absent when it came time to record George’s songs. Paul, for whatever flaws he had, sounds like he’s making a genuine effort playing on George’s songs. This meeting puts things into…

This show, King of the Hill, and The Adventures of Pete and Pete tap into this weird low-key suburban specificity that you’d think would be more common in media but very few writers are actually able to capture it. Stuff like Northern Exposure or Ed perhaps come close, but most of the time reach too far for quirk or…

Sometime during season four I think the show shifted to being too heavy on Dangle/Weigel/Junior at the expense of the other characters (although admittedly that might be because those three have the most comedy experience), but it was still one of those infinitely renewable premises like Space Ghost Coast to Coast or…

Season 9 of The Office beat the odds by somehow finding a new way to squeeze in a fifth and final baffling new characterisation for Andy Bernard.

30 Rock. The front half is as energetic and funny as the show has ever been, and the last chunk of shows keep that hilarity going while giving just enough weight and dignity to characters who didn’t ordinarily get it. It’s also weirdly satisfying and kind of audacious to see the finale hand over a sizeable amount of…

“Wow! This looks pretty heavy! You won’t be able to lift it with just your bare hands...”

As long as this text isn’t constantly popping up whenever Link’s elbow nudges a ceramic pot, I will consider this remake a massive improvement.