I once knew a girl who changed her name from Lucy to Wild Style. I think she was a DJ, or something.

More like a Retard-is. Amirite?

Is Houdini's brother prominently featured? I understand he was just as good as Houdini.

I'm rewatching the entire series, and I'm finding it isn't holding up all that well. Season 1 was seriously underwhelming, and S2 shot itself in the foot every time it started to gain some momentum. The worst of it, though, was Janice killing Richie. I mean, . . seriously? Just all of the sudden, out of nowhere .…

Not having labyrinthine, everything-comes-together-at-the-end kind of plots doesn't equate (for me) to lightweight storytelling. I think you nailed it, though, with the idea that through a series of funny scenes we get to know the characters. Which I think is clever and sophisticated storytelling.

I think he's not a big star because he excels at being the small role guy who steals a scene. If that makes sense.

You are thinking of Ordinary People. Ordinary Fucking People was the porn parody featuring Annette Haven in the Mary Tyler Moore role.

Up the main cast's salaries to $1 billion per episode to keep it going.

I'm opening a Dumb Central Perk asap.

I'd like to see Glover play a dracula in a movie. Not sure which dracula, . . just some kind of dracula. I think he'd be good at it.

I think Community took some time to find itself, and I think it has declined since the end of S3. But at its heights in S2 and S3, it was special. The best description I've ever heard is that it was like a live-action version of early seasons of The Simpsons. And that is a huge compliment. It was inventive and…

The Descent was a surprisingly good movie. Natalie Mendoza was stunningly hot.

Malcolm in the Middle was over.

I like Jim Parsons. And I enjoy Sheldon Cooper. But for crying out loud, there is no range at all in that performance. It's rote. It's two-dimensional. And it isn't like you can't bring range to a character with some kind of ASD. Ryan Cartwright was so much more fully realized as a character as Gary on Alphas…

Modern Family is the McDonald's of TV shows. Lots of people like it and it generally satisfies. It's what you are looking for when you pull up to to the door or turn on the channel. And there is nothing at all wrong with that. The problem, for me, is pretending Modern Family is artistically or creatively…

Modern Family is such a head-scratcher for me. Even in its prime, it always seemed like a reasonably funny watching experience. But in the past few seasons, it has just been dreadful. Are there people who really liked Modern Family who actually think it is still good?

Start-to-finish, I put Breaking Bad as the best TV series I ever saw. Season 4 of The Wire is my pick as best season of any show, but The Wire had some inconsistency in its run. Breaking Bad was excellent from episode 1 to the very end. All in my opinion, of course.

How is it disingenuous?

The fact that Downton Abbey is nominated for any award is the clearest indication that the Emmys are not to be taken seriously.

Too bad. This sounds like it could have been the tremendous kind of mess that runs for three or four episodes and is forever treasured by the few who watched the train wreck.