It’s actually Episode IV: A New Pope

I love the 1999 movie, but I hope Sir Patrick records his one-man show and streams it. (He reprised it this year for charity, but tickets were $500 a pop!)

And this is weird because didn’t Scrooge already have a tragic background? Didn’t his sister die and his father sent him away or something? What was this supposed to accomplish that that didn’t?

Sim is just fucking transcendent in that movie

I can’t believe I had to scroll this far down to see the 1951 Alastair Sim version mentioned. That's still the definitive film adaptation.

My first response after seeing the trailer for this was astonishment that someone decided to adapt the version of a Christmas Carol Bill Murray is putting on in Scrooged.

Satisfying and hilarious. “It’s tough to be a white man in America” says a US senator planning to run for president. The human eye isn’t capable of rolling hard enough, which is why that line made me laugh...right up until my brain caught up with the fact that his character isn’t a caricature. It’s an accurate…

Just wanted to say thanks, Joelle, and that I am really happy the AV Club brought you on for these. You definitely improved upon the experience of watching the series.  Not to mention that it's nice to see some other brown faces around here. There's not as many of us as there used to be. 

As someone here said last week. If they don’t stick the landing it’s the journey. That landing I think came very close. To humanize a superhero/god in the moments of death Manhattan/Cal was genuinely great and it was surprisingly moving. The mechanics to get there were fine in a kind of techno-forward dance club…

I know she was a baddie as well, but seeing Trieu just completely outthink, outplan and outflank the utterly overmatched Cyclops was extremely satsifying.

Basically everything you could possibly want from a Doctor Manhattan episode and an HBO Watchmen episode. It’s brilliantly written, stunningly shot, beautifully scored, and all sorts of other meaningless adjectives.

Ike dumping out the chip bag and putting it over his head in the grocery store when Sheila was loudly talking about her fecal transplant was worth the price of admission.

This episode definitely was an A for me. It was an actually interesting episode that reminded me of their earlier seasons.

Loved it. I missed Charlie Brooker’s vocal cameo. There was a visual joke in A-Gobble of Lisa catching Egg Maggie like a football, thereby I guess inventing that other Thanksgiving tradition. And of course, the jelly creature was a parody of The Blob.

I laughed at the “chillingly plausible” bit.

This grade might be a tad too harsh. I think I’d A- for this one. That was the most fun I’ve had watching a Simpsons episode in a long time. They’ve had a ton of blandness lately so I gotta reward them for when they bring it. Every one to the stories was well done and packed plenty of jokes. It actually felt like the…

“C’mon, you know how this works. You fail and then you try something else. And you fail again, and again, and you fail a thousand times, and you keep trying because maybe the thousand-and-first idea might work.”

That’s also true. In fact, she’s not exactly being a great scientist either, because while she’s trying to prove and disprove things scientifically she’s not really coming to her conclusions scientifically. She’s starting with a belief (various permutations of ‘this is not the Good Place’) and then working backwards…

I think the show might agree with you, actually. Remember, that last moment hinged on Brent doing something good. Simone, though, perhaps might be a bit of an example of how trying to fit scientific reasoning into altruistic benevolence just doesn’t work, they’re two different things. Simone’s good at science and…

“The opposite of a box of donuts : A toilet full of broccoli” might be one of my favorite one-liners this show has produced, and that’s a fucking high bar. Hope they tell us who wrote that one during tonight’s podcast...