The titular truck is pretty much a semi with armor, but it holds its own in post-apocalyptic New Zealand. Ratzenberger is a kindly commune member who doesn't hold up under torture. That should be all you need to know.

Plus the first installment in what I insist on believing will eventually be the Battletruck franchise.

I was sold from the first "Mr. Schmidt."

I just hope there aren't a bunch of dummies in the crowd yelling "Timekeeper!" at him during his set.

Scott mentioned potential surprise guests, but it seems like on the most recent tours they've mostly stuck to characters. I do kind of like having a "straight" for them to play off. Fingers crossed that Maria Bamford's home in Minnesota in mid-May.

The haunted jug band scene is up there among the best stuff that show's produced.

If I didn't know the guests in advance I probably wouldn't suggest she come with me. Something like the Tom Leykis/Horatio Sanz set from Chicago would be about as far from her sense of humor as possible.

It's Thicke of the Night. You can remember it because it's absolutely a common phrase that people use.

I'll never hear "Semi-Charmed Life" the same way again, that's for sure.

Werner or JW Stillwater are my top hopes. I'm not sure what I'm wishing for from Lauren, although there's no end of great possibilities.

I started last fall with the first episode, which seems to lay the groundwork for a lot of recurring material, then went chronologically through the next few. Once I got the general schtick, I had no trouble skipping around to guests who piqued my interest. I’ve listened to a couple dozen from all over the run and am…

I landed shockingly good seats for Minneapolis and I couldn't be more enthused. Now to try to catch my wife up on the backstories of every Lapkus and PFT character before mid-May…

With Special Guest was pretty remarkable this week. I could listen to Eliza Skinner and Lauren Lapkus work out the post-apocalyptic-audio-diary-as-podcast conceit on a regular basis. Their "Car People" are going to haunt my thoughts for a long while.

To my knowledge I never saw an episode of that show, but I remember being sad when it debuted because it meant no more Night Stand with Dirk Dietrich.

I am happy about that, although Mxyzptlk is a distant second to Bat-Mite in his book.

Superfriends locked the apparently inappropriate pronunciation of Mxyzptlk into my brain at an early age and I just can't shake it even though I know it's wrong. I've even passed it along to my kid and feel weirdly ashamed about that.

I might even call it better than Batman: TAS. Much as I adored the latter as a young teen, on rewatching it’s clear that a lot of its appeal was in how revolutionary it was for its era in both style and storytelling. Watching it post-DCAU, it’s much slower and almost quaint by comparison. It’s still a pretty great…

The interplay between the CBB and Womp It Up crews has been pretty fantastic. The introduction of Matt Yonni worked wonderfully on the latter, but Daly really cranked it up when the action moved over to CBB.

I really hoped the Bobcat Goldthwait episode would make it in. Not only was Scott's interview with Bobcat engaging and surprisingly moving, cafeteria technician Frank Frank was a masterstroke of Joe Wengert's trademark "insane everyman" improv. Will Hines's character was maybe a slightly weaker note to go out on, but…

My major complaint with Coppola's adaptation is that he never dropped all the Corleone business to spend a bracing 30 minutes or so exploring the minutia of a tertiary character's reconstructive vagina surgery.