It's clearly supposed to be absurd and funny, especially where it's placed. One of Matt Berninger's greatest talents is undercutting the overbearing melancholy with an absolute screamer of a line - "God loves everybody / don't remind me", for example, or "Can I get a minute and not be nervous / and not think about my…

Is that not the joke?

Count me in. Season 6 got sketchy but the highs are still significant. And The End is one of my top 10 episodes of TV ever - and certainly the most affecting.

Is that Fred Armisen?

God damn.

One of those "musician bands" that have had an absolutely indelible impact on just about every single guitar-led, complex post-hardcore bands since they split. Seriously, listen to either record and wonder what the point in making heavy music with guitars is anymore. They're like the secret Simpsons of the genre -…

She lies and shits in an empty can
Can't find a Septic Man
She dreams in colour, dreams in brown
Can't find a Septic Man

Yep! Mario is Missing, as someone else has mentioned. I rented it for the SNES one weekend - one of the few games as a kid I actually completed in 2 days.

Noted, thanks. My friend is absolutely wild about Matador so I'll maybe double-bill the two of them.

The only Almodovar movies I have seen are Bad Education (in the cinema, that opening scene gave me the weirdest boner I'd had in my life up to that point) and The Skin I Live In. I thoroughly enjoyed both. Where do I go from here with him?

Oh, there's a deeply-buried memory of having a huge crush on cartoon Carmen coming up. TRIGGER WARNING, AVCLUB. TRIGGER WARNING.

ReBoot not only kind-of holds up (discounting the sometimes headache-inducing CG) but I think for my generation it's actually pretty important. It had a deep, complex mythology, was dark-as-hell, semi-serialised and had that time-jump, which was really unusual (previously unseen?) in children's TV. I mean, yeah, it's…