Popetown aired on TV in New Zealand and was fucking abysmal. It was billed as "Father Ted meets South Park" but played as Brickleberry meets a urinary tract infection. Really wish we had got Snuff Box instead.

"Younger… younger… technically a Polanski."

S2 of Toast starts extremely soon, doesn't it? That show was amazing, though Berry has ruined Ghost Town for me for life: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvk…

It is pretty fucking incredible, yes.

I frequently claim that I wish Richard Ayoade and Matt Berry were my best friends, the latter claimed that status when he dropped the tray of drinks and shouted "WHISKEY!" at the bar.

Alas no, the hard Right has brought NZ the wonderful gift of 3 Strikes law, because of how well it has worked in the US.

yeah I used to have Heard it Through the Grapevine but I kept missing calls because I didn't want it to stop.

Shoot the next season in Wanganui.

Heat being another song that nakedly apes late-period Scott Walker. Not that I'm complaining, Walker is amazing and Bowie is my favourite artist of all-time!

In Josh Thomas's defense, his stand-up is execrable too.

I hate this kid with a passion, he is on mobile phone ads every ad break shouting "YES!" in a weird accent. I want someone to design an adblock but for him on my PC and television.

One of my first thoughts on seeing this last night is that it is going to be to MRAs what Fight Club was to dudebros; an AVClubber on twitter pointed out that they are probably the same people.

I want to give you a hug.

Oh I do love the old 'getting busted crying by roommates' bit… my housemates came home a few weeks ago to find me crying my eyes out in the lounge watching an episode of Adventure Time, a show they'd previously shown me and I hadn't appreciated. Good times.

Oh god… my girlfriend and I went to see this the night before she had an abortion; it was one of those 'let's see whatever's on' things and was really really really not what we needed. The next morning when I was killing time waiting to pick her up afterwards I caught One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest on TV too… there…

I guess life didn't bring you back together then?

Oh god yes, that was devastating.

Fuck David Mitchell, Yukio Mishima is a pretty incredible author, the Sea of Fertility novels are amazing and feature a conclusion that feels like a punch in the guts.

And sadly Christchurch doesn't really look like that anymore.

Speaking as someone who just turned 30, is cripplingly lonely, has no ambitions or goals in life and has also never entirely recovered from having his heart broken in his mid-20s, this recent Onion article seems like a terrifying vision of things to come: http://www.theonion.com/art…