This was the same as last week.  I don't need to find out what happened.  I watched the damn episode.

Also — be fair to Jack Burns.  He may have been head writer on Hee-Haw, but he was also half of the brilliant comedy team Burns & Schrieber (with Avery Schreiber).

For the most part, I liked the episode, but thought the check-tearing-up was stupid.  Of course, they can't take the check because then the Simpsons would be wealthy, and there wasn't enough time in the episode left to burn off the money like all the other times they became briefly wealthy.  But as part of the story?…

…That certainly is what happened in the episode in paragraph form!

I'm in the same boat — I LOVE Alfred Birnbaum's translations… like Jay Rubin's OK, but think Philip Gabriel is kind of terrible.  I'm not speaking as a person who knows Japanese — so for all I know Gabriel's could be the most accurate — but as a dude who speaks English, I know Gabriel's not a very good writer.  Lots…

Honestly, that reference to being "gross" completely baffled me.  I've never really thought of AT as gross at all.  Certainly not R&S gross.  (Which, in the Kricfalusi years, I enjoyed anyway.  That was fun gross.  Some of the later ones were just… gratuitous and lame.)

YES. That would rule SO HARD.

After all, in Cheers, Diane always called Norm "Norman" — when his real name was "Hilary".

Funny thing is — and I'm speaking as a fellow user of "Instant Club Hit" as a list of bands to avoid until I realized that was silly — Rodney later said that those were all bands he actually liked! So, I suppose, we should have been using that as a "to check out" list all along… mwomp mwomp!

(it was also adapted by Joe Dante for a killer segment in the Twilight Zone movie)

Am I the only one…
…who expected the first sentence to end with "….but she never meant shit to me"?

Still not a Cleveland Show fan…
But I did like the bit where Lester called Gus "Eraserhead".

Opposite for me. Except on AD.
I was shocked that I actually enjoyed Cleveland tonight. Admittedly, it was an episode mostly riffing on how the show is kinda lame and formulaic, but, hey, go with what you got, I guess.

Freberg!
Yay! I'm looking forward to reading about that… Stan Freberg's one of my all-time heroes.

man, just rent A Dirty Shame… for reals.

Basic truth: if you are against gay marriage, you are wrong.

I also saw one of the commenters mentioning that in the letter, one of the writers is credited as being there for 5 years, but apparently she's only listed as joining TDS in 2010 on iMDB.

Lauren Weedman…
…often seems to come up in these kinds of things about women on the Daily Show. She wrote a long article for The Stranger about it — http://www.thestranger.com/… for those interested. And, well, having watched her on the show, and read that article, I wonder if it ever seemed to cross anyone's mind…

Should You Be Laughing At This
Oh, man — I loved that book. Those cartoons are great — I didn't even think of it as an impulse-buy, but then again, it was a gift. Either way, though — yeah — I didn't know other folks knew about that book. I did a review to help get the word out, but I don't think it helped…
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Joe — I can see that, but I think it would have been better if they'd just cut out the half-assed attempt at social commentary or whatever the fuck that was supposed to be, and just been "HERE! KIDS! ISLAND! GUNS! BOMB COLLARS! ROCK!"