I got heroically drunk at my sister-in-law’s place on Saturday night, fell asleep in my nephews’ bunk bed listening to this week’s Hollywood Handbook, woke up six hours later with my earbuds still in and a massive leg cramp gripping my calf, lurched out of bed to walk it off, plowed face first into a wall, knocked…

Hell, here in Minnesota we never miss a chance to glom onto a hometown kid made good, from Prince and Dylan to Rachel Leigh Cook and Josh Hartnett. I can tell how under the radar Baskets is because there haven't been gushing profiles of Louie Anderson running daily in the local papers.

Dark, ugly psychedelic rock is just about my favorite genre, and few things please me more than digging up obscure '60s and '70s bands in that vein. I like The Doors a fair bit, but it occurred to me a while back that if they'd never hit it big and they were some forgotten L.A. band that I stumbled across at a record…

Mike Eagle is the goddamned best and this is wonderful.

I think I do. Weren't you one of the Little Rascals?

Wow, you weren't kidding. They absolutely nailed everything that drives me nuts about people who declare the NCAA's superiority over the NBA. That's one of the subtly great things about this show - underneath all the layers and layers of irony, Sean and Hayes are often strikingly adept social critics.

That "Oww, owwww" is the crowning achievement of Engineer Brett's long and distinguished tenure with Earwolf.

That was also the one where we learned Listler pegged John Grisham in a NYC Barnes & Noble, if memory serves.

He has a Twitter account to that same end. I believe Aukerman even subtly referenced him on today's CBB when he made offhand mention of Kroll's dad running Hollywood.

"I'll never roll a window down for a fat fuck like you."

Preach. For instance, he doesn't seem like an obvious fit for Womp it Up! but his episode is my favorite thing they've done.

The Best of Improv 4 Humans episode was a great reminder that that show is perfectly suited for Best Of episodes. Just about every segment features a performance that takes my breath away. I'd forgotten how brilliant Neil Casey was as the unrepentant drunk driver.

That is my exact demographic and I need to catch up on this episode immediately.

Sly Stallone is my favorite Nick Kroll character so I was a little disappointed that he didn't stick around, but the show really took off after he split. It's especially impressive knowing that Scott was suffering through some pretty intense stomach issues. On today's episode he acknowledges it was bad enough that he…

Jean Villepique nonchalantly forcing an incoherently bleating Chris Tallman into the role of "our daughter Caroline" was everything I love about Spontaneanation in a nutshell.

Man, Sledge Hammer! is a pretty great way to go out. That was the first TV show whose untimely cancellation broke my heart.

Yes. For a devotee of trash cinema and ugly obscurities such as myself, Amazon Prime is the only streaming service that comes close to browsing YouTube for things no one bothers to make copyright claims on. I use it far more often than I do Netflix.

Not to mention Death Car on the Freeway, which is actually kinda super.

The only good auditing sessions are hymns!

The one in Saint Paul is surprisingly huge and prominent, and located right across the street from the Fitzgerald Theatre, home of A Prairie Home Companion. I want to believe they bought that location specifically to recruit Garrison Keillor.