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Johnny Staccato
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If the bastards have non-arthritic knees, why the hell aren't they getting off my lawn faster?

Dude…do not say things like that. Me, I like cats but I get it that some people don't.

He's a quick-witted investigative reporter and a master of disguise… also, he has fleas!

Let's paws before we spring headlong into a pun thread. OK, scratch that. Ready. Aim. Flea…

More tepid Scotchka, Joseph Finn?

…it's got electrolytes.

…and I'm going to say I wrote the script, composed the score and designed the production. *Ka-Ching* See you in court, sucker…

Hey! I'm 'getting old' and I 'm offended. I'm gonna come round to your house and I'm gonna…wait a second: I don't know where you live.

Greeks marching to the sea…it's a tough script to sell.

Oh, I don't know…

So good, in fact, that I didn't realize until years later that Dillahunt had played Francis Wolcott and Jack McCall in Deadwood. It seems obvious now that I know, but at the time…

Goodfellas is a good call. I'm ambivalent about the VO in Mr Robot; it doesn't seem to add much.

Ah…'the poor sap, he always wanted pool…'. One of my all-time favourites. But I think I forget because the voice-over doesn't seem intrusive.

I watched the whole thing in one gulp a couple of days ago and I enjoyed it.

Happy to hear it. I first came across Burnett in Thom Andersen's
Los Angeles Plays Itself, which showed clips from
Burnett's 1979 film Killer Of Sheep.

Dean Jones was…inoffensive. Pat Boone was pure evil, an emissary of Baal. For real, yo…

The Messicans or the Chinese? I can never keep those jerb-stealin' varmints straight…

I, too, have given billions to charity. You'll just have to trust me on this.

Putting them on a pedestal is OK…it's making them wear a toga that's weird…

'a decent mock-turtleneck' is like a decent Donny Osmond LP: non-existent. Sorry.