How about if he trips, and falls in the mud, and thus ruins the very pants he was trying to return?  Now THAT'S interesting writing!

They know what "Mexican is the new Jew" means in Arizona, though.

Me miserable!  Which way shall I fly
infinite wrath, and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell, myself am hell,
and in the lowest deep a lower deep
still threatening to devour me opens wide,
to which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

Or, jingoist.  Whatever.

You fox-eared asshole!

Swing and a miss.  Correct usage:  wtf is Leonard Pierce lol

It shows you just how keen-eyed Archer is about character—even as Cyril's getting a chance to change, he's still rooted in his defining comedy of body shame.  I loved how he covers up the nose-wink thing to Lana by turning into a flagrant pick—calling back to his covering up financial shenanigans by claiming he was in…

You could literal—figuratively—scour the earth and not find less dangerous game.

It's a figure of speech.

Same realization happened to Sarah Palin.

Could the CGI character be a talking pie?

That shredding guitar solo in "Taxman"?  Paul.  George couldn't play it.

My vote for all-time Andy delivery:  "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.  I read that on a can of lemonade.  I like to think it applies to life."

I know it's too early to say this, but I will anyway:  I'm getting a really bad vibe from the last two episodes.  The show feels very much as if it's broadened and flattened out:  I don't get any sense of the sort of textural richness that kept me feeling an immediate need to rewatch an episode to catch the stuff I…

And the coincidence of this episode appearing as the Occupy Wall Street protestors have been beaten and maced by NYPD thugs—and ignored when not snidely dismissed by the mainstream media—only emphasizes what I would have thought about the Britta-Chang storyline anyway:  namely, fuck that smug, puerile, apolitical…

Whereas it seemed to me that Parks and Rec was something of a season 3-finale hangover episode.  On the one hand I enjoyed their choosing to have the season opener start (fictionally) immediately after the end of the season finale; on the other hand as the episode moved forward—and by comparison with the really…

And (4) is immediately recognizable as monkey gas to its unintended victims.

I did at various points find myself thinking, "Yeah, this is a little on-the-nose season-premiery."  Which I felt more than willing to grade on a curve.  On rewatch, though, I expect I'm going to be more impressed at just how many different season arcs they got moving in the course of the ep.  (At a quick tally there…

It strikes me now that Louie (the show) is most specifically post-Seinfeld in the way that it makes Louie (the character) an anti-Seinfeld:  he's the comedian whose life is a continual effort at doing right by everybody—and whose comedy, at its core, gets its energy from the idea of being able to let go of that effort…

But a large part of Louie's awkwardness with his niece isn't predicated on his inability to relate to a closed-in thirteen-year-old (which is what makes Gordon's "empathy, man" comment much less on-the-nose than it looks) so much as on his overarching sense of responsibility.  Think of Louie at the door, announcing…