Somebody do a recut of The Phone Call between Brody and a weeping, confused Louie Anderson.  Now.

It is depressing on several levels to contemplate that being the all-time NBA scoring champion, kicking Bruce Lee in the chest, and being Roger Murdock isn't enough to coast gracefully into the sunset.

"…to court (and spark) the same lesbian audience…"

At the very least, the final episode, which I thought did a really good job of blurring all the lines of reality and complicating any firm interpretation of what the whole show was about.

Something I really like about the story: it carefully shows just how small and irreplaceable the resources of the town are, culminating in the birthday; then you get the full details of just how much the neighbors have scrimped and scraped to show Dan how much they care about him.  The giving of gifts is so warm, in…

On the Waterfront
Rebel Without a Cause
My Left Foot
Cool hand Luke
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lawrence of Arabia
The Sand Pebbles
The Grapes of Wrath
The Miracle Worker
Central Station
The Lion in Winter(?)
The China Syndrome

It's been a lifelong dream of mine to be a contestant, but all my good anecdotes involve drugs, the police, or both drugs and the police. 

On that note, how is Purple Rose of Cairo not in there?

I liked the mash-up of the endings of Holy Mountain and Holy Grail.
Also: "…sweet transvestite" landing on Tilda Swinton (as Orlando, no less).
But I really wish there was one of Eddie Murphy's little glances at the camera in Trading Places!

That is so my favorite P-Funk album.

Goddamnit, I've been wanting to see that exhibit pretty bad, though there's no chance in hell I'll be getting to LA in time.  Any standout/revelatory pieces?

I'd love if they'd cast this thing by who's actually played the monsters.  So you could have a lineup of: Robert DeNiro, Willem Dafoe, Jack Nicholson, and, uh, Arnold Vosloo.

He only committed lycanthropy in his heart.

Friedrich Kruegger, M.D.

Also, nice use of a Tesla coil to show Edison being a dick.

Timberlake's music doesn't really affect me one way or the other, but I did quite like the dancing and the general uptown Harlem, black-tie look (though guys standing behind stand fronts and just waving instruments is always really annoying).   The whole thing did make me half-expect Janelle Monae to skate across the…

…did Jane Curtin ever cameo to call, say, Jimmy Fallon an ignorant slut?

Line of the night.

I'll hand it to him: he almost saved that incredibly half-assed sketch just from delivery alone.

Was it the extras, the "When the Saints" music, or the audience that started shouting, "Who Dat?" at the end?