When the Mexicans paid for Trump's wall, they threw in a canal alongside for free.

Well, I was one of those folks, and not much has changed for me.

It was "I don't know". Rudy was old, but not a quitter.

Don't blame Plops, who is just an animal. Blame the lousy camp.

Basically the writers put her in an impossible situation. Lousy horse camp instructor paired her with a difficult horse on purpose and then neglected to actually help her with it in any meaningful way. And lesson wasn't "stand up for yourself when someone rips you off" it was "go back to your fantasy life, it will…

I suppose a second burger is out of the question?

This "Homer Live Technology" could be just the thing to bring back animated talk shows like Space Ghost Coast to Coast

It might actually be kinder to say he was terrible as a clear case of in character hyperbole, than to actually give an honest assessment..

Favorite job should have been the bowling alley. but I guess astronauts are funnier.

It was great material, but Jost's poor timing and mugging were a distraction. Would like to see the same character with a better straight man.

the Che-Jost partnership remains in fine form. … sometimes something is just so irresistible comedically that the simple performer’s joy in making jokes about it is deeply infectious.

FWIW, The Day After was kind of a big deal back in the day. According to wikipedia, "More than 100 million people watched the program during its initial broadcast. It is currently the highest-rated television film in history."

Dennis is so eager to declare that "Jost/Che have arrived" that he failed to notice they were back to breaking like amateurs all through Update. Riblet would never do that.

It's "funny" in the sense that something like the Machine is technologically out of reach, and probably physically impossible (e.g., the episode where the Machine runs detailed simulations of multiple courses of action in basically no time at all).

Concerns about the NSA and domestic electronic surveillance go back a lot farther than that. Remember the clipper chip? Remember Admiral John Poindexter?

They had chicken, frying, and sex. Not sure about picnics though. That might have seen weird to them.

" beautifully Pyrrhic gestures"

It's a #slatepitch, it doesn't actually have to make sense.

"Unprovoked" wasn't the best word choice ever, but I simply meant there was no proximate cause. I don't care how much you don't like somebody or how justifiable your dislike might be; recourse to violence in that situation was wrong. (And we're talking about a personal grudge here, Mike is not a war criminal or…

There's "not being nice" and then there's "unprovoked sucker punch".