Besides, someone would need to pull some strings to make it happen.

YOU WIN!

That was even better than the first three volumes of my Rachel Bloom fan fiction.

But look how perfect he was on stage in Boston last year: http://variety.com/2015/leg…

Having grown up in the area: YES THERE IS.

Even more — attempts to mansplain to Nick Offerman bounce off him like rocks from the hull of an aircraft carrier.

Not until after he does A Confederacy of Dunces, please.

"so is this, madam, but every so often I need to pass a little water through it.." I miss the days when HBO showed this every other day.

The only reason I've ever paused while scrolling past Golden Girls reruns is to see if it might be the episode with a young Quentin Tarantino guest-starring.

realizing that I've never made my kids watch My Favorite Year, wondering if it's too late…

tips hat

I'd say they're the clam dip of root vegetables, but YMMV.

The exceedingly rare "1 degree of Harry Dean Stockwell".

Aw, no mention of the music video he did for Toto?

Or the time they put Brooks Whelan on just so he could mention that it was halfway through the season and hadn't actually done anything yet?

My sister had one, and the effect of eating the crap that came out was more "wow, I'll never be able to cook! This is terrible" than "cooking is fun and I want to learn more about it!"

Interesting, thanks for the correction. I guess my point was more that it seems more carefully selected than one might expect, not just "here's the lighthearted wacky cue that we use."

Right — these shows are scored carefully, they're not just using some needle-drop licensed library.

I'd like a second pass at this interview done by someone from the film part of AV club — Bourdain and the ZPZ crew are serious cinema geeks and every episode makes use of techniques from a specific director or school of cinema. This would be a good venue to probe on that a bit…

Sweet Liberty was a fun movie — I should see if it's on any of the steaming video services I use. First time I ever saw Saul Rubinek (and his mighty eyebrows) in anything.