Mostly the enthusiasm on American game shows is to mask how stupid the actual games are - in general there's an inverse relationship between the skill required to play the game and the amount of enthusiasm you're expected to display.

I realize it's 6 months later, but I didn't see anyone give a satisfactory answer - what happened to it is that he stole it, which he was intending to do the moment he saw it - he thought it would make him look cool for his date that never happened.

It was neat watching him show up as a detective in an episode of Comedy Bang Bang on the sketch 'You've Made Your Bed, Now Lie In It', a gameshow where people would make a bed, then tell a lie. It's such a stupid Aukerman/Campbell premise, but Polito was great in it.

He didn't, did he? Verna shot Rug. Right? This movie.

It's not just you changing, it's the fact that the pop culture world has subsumed Smith's favorite subjects. The Apatow generation of comedies usually have at least one pop culture-obsessed character, stoner humor is quite common, frank talk about sex and sexuality is common - these things have all been done…

I don't think Clerks 'holds up' simply because its best attributes have been copied elsewhere and it's not otherwise an interesting movie. But that Death Star/contractors bit is really great and I'm not even a Star Wars fan - it's just a really well-written scene about ephemera that changes into something else.

It's been a long time (almost 10 years) since I have seen any of these things, but I remember liking the Dekalog much more than the Three Colors trilogy.

I've never heard anyone talk about his films before the Dekalog, so perhaps it's just a dearth of films - he made that, the films based off them (which imo are okay but the Dekalog versions are better), The Double Life of Veronique, and the Three Colors trilogy. While this is about 18 hours of 'film', it's grouped…

He wasn't giving a ton at first but as he got used to the character things were going well. I don't understand people who trash CBB guests, especially people who you don't know from anywhere else - I imagine it's a hard show to do. Aukerman and Mantzoukas don't exactly 'yes, and'.

Right - most of the people responsible for the pop culture of the Baby Boomers are at least 10-15 years older than them, which means they're in their late 70s or early 80s.

The idea that 'everyone's a special snowflake' and its ilk gets shit on a lot in certain parts of culture today, and I think rightfully so in some cases, but Carlin grasps that his generation (and later ones) would simply not tolerate this level of abuse.

Arthur Chu is an enormous wheel in the Twitter world and when you cross him, you find out, one way or another.

It's impossible to make a film as sparse as Gerry with as big a star as Matt Damon and not have some people not like it.

Yes. Hamilton is going to be around for a very long time.

It goes beyond that - Arli$$ inexplicably ran for 7 seasons when HBO was inventing the concept of prestige dramas with Oz and The Sopranos and its time there also overlapped with Mr. Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and The Wire. It was a lightweight sports agent comedy whose name in print is instantly memorable (my…

Right - not very many people have actually seen it, though lots of people have the cast album.

For me, I'm completely spoiled by the presence of 26 new Tompkins-Lapkus episodes, episodes that didn't have any of the (relatively) boring chit-chat parts that the characters are supposed to play off of. I was already pretty picky about CBB - even in a good year I'd probably only listen to half the episodes - but…

There's no way within the Howl program to download Howl podcasts and transfer them to some other device. I've been hoping someone will tell me a way to download them.

Hamilton, Serial, and Stranger Things would be an interesting jumping off point to talk about entertainment which has been approved by certain tastemakers and appeal to a somewhat narrow demographic that thinks it's much larger than it is. This is the future of entertainment in a way - while certain things will come…

Tarr owes a large debt to Tarkovsky for sure - they use long takes in the same way. I should've said Tarkovsky to begin with but someone brought up Tarr earlier in the comments and so that was who I went with. Stalker's not my favorite film of his but yeah, it's such a unusual movie.