I believe we're all overlooking Outlaw, that one show where Jimmy Smits was a maverick U.S. Supreme Court Justice who quit so he could go back to private practice because it was somehow easier for him to make a Real Difference that way.

My best friend is a weird non-libertarian conservative who loathes most everything about the current Republican party. He's voted for John McCain in every presidential election since 2004. I don't quite get where that particular fandom comes from, but it's one less vote for the actual nominee (save for 2008), so I got…

Peter and David Paul are the fuckin' Barbarian Brothers!

"That kid next door's a meatball!"

I'm pulling for it being like Vic Morrow in The Last Shark cosplaying as Robert Shaw as Quint and somehow managing to intensify his Scottish-ish more accent in every scene.

Their getting Jensen Karp Up On This is underrated as well. I'd love to see them try their hand at How Not to be Old.

I got some good laughs out of it but on the whole it was pretty disappointing. It felt like Sean was maybe trying too hard to cover for Hayes's lack of improv training and they wound up sliding into their own natural rhythms instead of letting the scene unfold. It was a particular shame because their first Spont…

I honestly didn't know if Bang was going to be able to recover from his cold read of those opening lines. By the time it became a medley of Shonk's script and the legendary Hall Pass dialogue, we'd achieved a new kind of perfection.

I started at the first episode and listened chronologically until I got the rhythms down, then started jumping around as I pleased. It wasn't the easiest thing to get into - the heavy doses of irony were kind of exhausting to me at first - but around about the time I started being able to tell which was Sean and which…

Sean and Hayes repeatedly snapping "Shut up!" at Gourley was pure bliss. I loved that Matt seemed genuinely startled by the first one.

I wasn't really feeling this one until they got into debating at what point Popeye has a responsibility to intervene in his neighbors' possibly abusive relationship. Then Jarles showed up and from then on it was one of my favorites of the year.

I busted out laughing the second Mary did her first vocal exercise and didn't stop until it was over. I will remember that Hall Pass speech on my deathbed.

Dero has always driven me nuts as a music writer, but I can't deny that he's a true journalist who's been putting in heroic work on this subject for ages. There aren't many arts writers determined, fearless, or qualified enough to do what he's done on the R. Kelly beat.

I just watched Without Warning a couple months ago. Man, is Landau a force in that one. Just a low-budget alien horror flick, but it's a real blast and a big part of that is Landau playing full-bore loony as the traumatized army vet who could be either the invaders' biggest threat or greatest asset. The guy could chew…

It takes knocks for being too on-the-nose with its social and political commentary, but I thought it was an appropriately blunt instrument for the Bush era.

That's your answer for everything.

My sole arrest was for shoplifting the two-tape director's cut edition of Dawn of the Dead on VHS from my local Shopko. The judge was a pretty funny guy who cracked wise with a lot of the arrestees. He told me he'd never seen the movie and asked if it was any good. I was proud to tell him it was one of the greatest…

You did all right this time, flyboy, so how about it?

Lynn Lowry in The Crazies is unnerving in a way very few actors have ever been.

Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart. You can't build on it, you can't grow anything in it. The government says it's due to poor farming, but I know what's really going on!