If I’ve got my timeline right, didn’t Pixar wind up trashing the version that got deleted and then saved shortly after anyway? It’s a part of this legend that seems to get overlooked: https://thenextweb.com/media/2012/05/21/how-pixars-toy-story-2-was-deleted-twice-once-by-technology-and-again-for-its-own-good/

Blank it?

“Grade School Confidential”, where Skinner and Krabappel start dating, has worked its way up to being one of my low-key favourites over the years. There’s a tremendous empathy and sweetness afforded to both characters there, and it all feels very lived-in and grounded. Probably a sign that I’m getting older and…

For whatever flaws this show has had and continues to have, a lot of its detractors are missing that the show has been grappling with some of its previous shitty takes. It’s oddly endearing to watch Trey and Matt do a two-parter on the dangers of climate change after insisting in at least three previous episodes that…

My problem with RotJ is less with the usual targets like the Ewoks and more with the lack of anything meaty for Han and Leia to do in terms of character development. As far as the original trilogy is concerned, their arcs are pretty much complete by the time Han says “I know” in The Empire Strikes Back. It’s a…

I like news about HBO Max because there’s inevitably a comment about wanting new Venture Bros. eps, such as this one.

I just rewatched the whole series and that seventh season is so bittersweet. The episodes are as strong as ever and there’s even some degree of closure to be found, but it’s so clear that Publick and Hammer are gearing up to explore new territory (particularly with Doc and The Monarch). Would subscribe to HBO Max in a…

It was a trade to allow Michael McDonald to keep voicing Gandhi.

I watched the whole dang SF Sketchfest stream (I think it was three and a half hours) and this was my favourite segment — just the right mix of affection and ribbing. It was also the penultimate piece, and I was pretty smashed by then, but still! Weird Al and Triumph!

That ep in season 6 that confronts Murray’s feelings for Mary head-on is almost like a dry run for this movie. I’m surprised people don’t talk about that one more -- it’s compellingly rough to watch in a way that some of the more modern, cable comedies are.

On the Criterion commentary for that scene Brooks talks about wishing he had included one extra shot of Aaron standing outside, looking back at Jane from behind glass. As right as Brooks is about that (I always remember it being there even though it’s not), it’s one of my favourite examples of a creator still beating…

Between this and Majora’s Mask, 2000 was a banner year for weird and wonderful projects slipping through the cracks of major, tightly controlled companies. Two of the best examples of stuff achieving greatness precisely because of their rushed development.

I’ll go to bat for their de facto double-album Barenaked Ladies Are Me / Are Men, which wound up being the last time Page was fully engaged and contributing songs that could vacillate from witty to poignant. I know the canonized version of that release has a handful of bonus tracks after it, but “The New Sad” really…

Eugene Levy’s hosting stint (with John Candy) got squashed by the writer’s strike during the 84-85 season. It is finally time to give us a Schmenge Brothers sketch with just Eugene Levy that plays to absolute silence. We deserve it, dammit.

That season 5 run up to and including MeowMeowBeanz is incredibly underrated. The last three eps of season 6 are a similarly great, overlooked part of the run.

Great News never rose above feeling like first draft 30 Rock. At the moment these feel the same way, except for Veep. Would love to see it evolve, but if it doesn’t it’s also kind of nice to see stuff that makes me appreciate the all-time greats.

There’s some good stuff here, but I don’t really feel like Disenchantment has a love for fantasy the way Futurama adored science fiction or Venture Bros. was obsessed with comic books and ‘60s adventurer fiction. With those shows it’s like they couldn’t wait to show you the next convention they were going to riff on,…

Much the way regional variations of The Office exist, so too should multiple cultures have their own versions of How to with John Wilson. New York works terrifically for this show, but what does a digressive, circuitous journey down the side streets of humanity look like in Tokyo or Rio de Janeiro or Lusaka? Is casual…

Yes. Its frankness is exactly why a lot of teens are drawn to it.

Victoria Jackson was one of the all-time great weak links in an SNL cast.