If the animators are working with temp voices - and apparently have been for a made-for-TV version - does that mean that Cravalho and Johnson are going to have to lip-sync cartoon characters, in exactly the same manner as the scratch VOs?

Okay, I will grant you that Ayo was spectacular, but when the entire show is filled with weak sketches like the “rom-com meet-cutes,” the narc students, and the interminable “town hall,” further normalizing TFG, there is no possible way that this gets a “perfect” score.

The “SMS” covers album sounds great, but - slightly off-topic - I also want to call everyone’s attention to a tribute album to the late and glorious Adam Schlesinger called “Saving For A Custom Van,” which celebrates his entire songwriting career (seriously, you have GOT to check out Ivy) - and Rachel Bloom is the one…

I was hoping that everything would be monochromatic except the blue spikes and what came out of them.

I’m curious - I watched the show on Peacock this morning and there wasn’t a reference to a PDD video in the opening titles - was there one when it was live?

“Martha Stewart’s Topless Christmas Special”!!! And this, maybe one of my Top Five Of All Time...

This was the first time I heard Joan Osborne’s “One of Us.”

I was just about to mention his Henry V, which I’m not seeing mentioned in his generous obituaries tonight.  God, I LOVED his work.

Tina Fey said that Emma Stone, at 35, was the youngest woman to host five times. But if Scarlett Johansson was born in 1984, and hosted for the fifth time in 2017, wouldn’t that make her the youngest?  (I also remembered that she never got an “induction” moment, but actually cameoed in the episode where they made such…

Oh, come on. A beautifully-written, carefully-considered appreciation of a movie the writer clearly loves, and these are the comments it gets?

Remember Letrasets? The letters you’d rub off with a stylus to sort of look like professional printing? I painstakingly rubbed off these letters to make a document that I framed and had on my wall for years: “Why says I can’t start real and end fake? What are they gonna do - put me in MOVIE JAIL?”

I wish they’d bring back more of the Elders who’ve hosted the show multiple times in the past and are still professionally doing great, memorable work - Walken, John Lithgow, John Goodman, even Elliott Gould. I wouldn’t even mind if they all hosted at once.

Hello? Ray Charles? “The Young Caucasians”? “Please don’t tell him”?

I’ll say one thing for this episode: it’s the first one in this series that presented a hint of the Greta Lee who entranced me in Past Lives.

One of my all-time favorite SNL sketches is the “Christmas Miracle” where the brassy showgirls turn out to be [redacted]... Amy Adams announces that her name is “Frabecca,” which is what I immediately thought of when I heard the name “Tobert.”

That must be really disheartening for him, to be told that he never got better than his first one.

“Her age” is THIRTY!!!  But, YES.

Not that he doesn’t deserve it - far from it! - but I really hope that the only Emmy this show ever receives doesn’t go to Ethan Hawke for Guest Actor.

I think it’s interesting that although Lily Gladstone gets a big review quote here, and that she was listed equally in the first trailer, it’s still only the two men who get their names before the title in this one.

I thought she was really funny in See How They Run (“He was hit over the head with a ski, and it was all downhill from there”).