I've recommended this here before, but for a truly insane spin on the Fu Manchu template, I urge you all to hunt down 1970's The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go, starring James Mason as a Chinese-Mexican supervillain with a vaguely defined plan for world domination, squaring off against reluctant adventurer Jeff Bridges, a…

I was pleased to find that D.A.N.A. is kind of delightful on mic, even in the face of Josh and his creepy bathing suit fantasies. Of course, this may just be how she gets to us.

I thought nothing would best the Cheetahman saga for me this season, but the grand helicopter finale might have topped it.

The second season was somehow an improvement on the incredible first, although I don't know if they'll ever make me laugh harder than they did with the paint-soaked-food taste-testing segment with PFT in the premiere.

There aren't many sounds in this world that make me happier than Hayes Davenport barking "KEVIN!"

The Complete Woman is fantastic. Complete Joy is near perfect.

Put. The bunny. Back. In the box.

Same here, except I do credit my MFA program for giving me a lot of valuable knowledge and connections that enabled me to get my start as a professional writer. (My program had some good courses in freelancing and feature writing beyond the expected fiction.) For quite a while I evangelized that an arts education was…

The answer is none. None more yellow.

Not just the life of a creative writing major, damn close to the current best-case scenario for a creative writing major.

Of all the perfectly cast human cartoons in Robert Altman's Popeye, Bill Irwin might have been the single most perfectly cast.

How else are today's kids gonna learn about the dangers of a big box?

Having listened to the Tompkast only sporadically, I can dig all of those points, and I'd say that Spontaneanation remedies each of your hang-ups quite handily. It's not nearly the one-man show that the Tompkast was, and the opening monologue is generally quite brief (and hilarious, in my estimation). It also has a…

Asked and answered.

Oh god, the sound cues were killing me. I wonder how this episode would play for a non-Spont listener?

I just listened to the Nicole Byer episode from a couple of years ago and was amazed to find Cody killing it for a whole episode, which makes me wonder how much of his usual stumblebummery is a bit. So many layers of intrigue in the Handbookverse.

We seem to be in the minority with enjoying live HDTGM, but I find that crew really feeds off the audience's energy. Having a theater full of people with a shared experience takes things in all sorts of fun directions.

Also liked that Besser waited until the final seconds of the episode to drop the obvious Hitler shoe.

Teachers' Lounge with Big Grande is back on Howl and it's as insanely great as ever. Drew Tarver transitioning back from a summer as an ostrich is maybe my favorite of the many story threads thus far, along with the unfolding saga of the devoutly Jewish student-athlete Cheetahman.

The improv4humans 4/20 episode was as bananas as ever, without ever going quite as far off the rails as Matt Walsh's way-too-stoned antics from last year. Brian Huskey was a surprisingly sharp stoner and weed may actually make Horatio Sanz a more linear thinker than usual.