Well, isn't MacDonald's work really akin to that of the brutalist architects who've turned their structures inside out to expose the internal workings, mechanisms, and infrastructures? The joke is a joke because of its structure or rhythm, and by rebuilding that to make the joke about its own construction, he changes…

was electrification a thing as early as 1865?

Don't know that one, guess they never showed it where I grew up.

Cheap laffs? You know that the writers already have to have a list of these a mile long…

They really do seem like amateurs in that respect, right?

Haven't seen the numbers, but I'd have to guess that having the Voice lead-in is a boost to both this show and 'This is Us'.

*checks Google Images* Wow, yeah.

I wonder if they hired the guy at Microsoft who was responsible for turning projects with cool code names into the most flat and boring product names.

I prepared for this by watching Time Tunnel on MeTV since they started showing git last month, and as much as I loved that show as a kid, this is a step up (but it would be improved with some Whit Bissell). The only real question: how long do they take to get to Hitler?

…forthcoming tour to be sponsored by the IEEE 754 floating point specification.

There's still time to invest in my new post-modern anal spittoon company. Just needs a good name.

In suppository form.

Ooof. Had an aunt who sold those when I was a kid. did one of her first demos for my parents and accidentally spilled the filthy water all over the kitchen floor.

A friend of my son's sold Cutco this summer. "You don't have to buy anything, he just wants to do his presentation." I'm an extremely enthusiastic home cook and have assembled a set of knives that range from really good to just short of excellent. Took knife skills classes at a local cooking school. He came in and…

A…B…C….

I heard that the first draft was in the future pluperfect —" I wish I were about to have been an Oscar Meyer Wiener" but it was notated in 13/16 and the session guys couldn't get it together.

Just like Visa, Modus is Everywhere You Want To Be.

When Milton Berle hosted, Ornette Coleman was the musical guest.
When Tony Danza hosted, Laurie Anderson was the musical guest.
Buck Henry and Sun Ra's Arkestra.

That's my favorite O. Henry story ever.

Not interested, not interested… wait — Mike O'Brien wrote the pilot and will be co-EP? Okay, I'm in for the pilot anyway.