I think I said "Wow", but it came from the same place.

This final season of "Parks And Recreation" may well turn out to be the show's best season.

I got a Ben and Kate notification for this?

Somebody get John Astin's agent on the phone!

If Leslie Jones "lights up the screen", then Melanie Hutsell was the second coming of Dame Judith Anderson.

He's not the best color man in the business for nothing!

Oral or verbal interaction?

It has also struck me since I wrote that the other day that, given the personalities of the most successful people in Pawnee (Dennis Feinstein, most of the Newport clan, Dr. Saperstein) Tom might have had trouble competing with them because he simply wasn't douchy enough.

This is a minor criticism I had with the show prior to this season—after a while, it stopped making sense to me that Tom was always a failure at everything he did. Clearly the character possessed people skills, creative vision and a lot of business connections in the community, and, for all of Tom's idiotic posturing,…

Loved both of these episodes—only one minor disappointment: Leslie mentioned that her mother was watching the kids; I wanted to see at least a few seconds of Pamela Reed, as Marlene Griggs-Knope—"the iron cock-shredder Of Pawnee"—triplet-wrangling.

Rick Moranis may not have acted on camera at all since 1997, but the last time Mel Brooks directed a movie was in 1995.

There actually was a "Special Edition" of "Hardware Wars" released back in 1997.

I wasn't emotionally ready for the second episode to be a re-run instead of a new episode. This is not a show that is playing out its string; this is a show that is very much still firing on all cylinders. P & R is suddenly surpassing what reasonably lofty expectations I may have had for it coming out of that lengthy…

I agree—"So Close, Yet So Far" is my favorite example of a hokey soundtrack song that Elvis made great by his ability to absolutely sell any lyric: "Suddenly you're gone from me/Like a floating star I see/And here am I/So close and yet so far/From paradise"

If you want to get truly hardcore, pick up any of the three 2-disc FTD "official bootleg" editions, which include a generous selection of alternate takes and Presley profanity.

One thing I always liked about Elvis was how, when his postage stamp came out in the early 1990's, there were still (white) people who absolutely and actively hated him based on his "vulgar" 1950's TV appearances.

I find the early 60's studio stuff on the boxed set as frustrating as the soundtrack nonsense—when Presley got out of the Army, his voice never sounded better, but his material ("Are You Lonesome Tonght?" and "It's Now Or Never") was kinda schlocky IMO. If only he'd been given more truly great songs like "Little…

Yes he did—on the expanded version of "Elvis Country", he is downright cranky between takes, snapping at his Memphis Mafia cronies and complaining that he needs to get on a plane to LA.

"Long Black Limousine" is absolutely epic, and "Suspicious Minds" is one of the greatest rock vocal performances of all time. It's a shame that Presley was permitted so few opportunities to unleash himself as he did during these early 1969 sessions.

Lacking in "basic storytelling"? I thought the complaint about "Phantom Menace" was that it had too much plot/story and not enough action.