I watched every episode when it original aired. My point was that laugh tracks have not aged well. 

I was thinking the same thing, like there was an intro explaining that part that someone got behind on writing, and the Q&A just got published without it.

If you’re gonna go with a light-hearted tone to try to combat the underlying shitiness of the background and aftermath of the story, Hughes, you gotta include the go-to soundtrack for egging:

Love it. Love the go-cart race a-plot with the kids, love the b-plot with Bob and Hugo. Hugo saying, “And I’ll be back to try that bread, Bob—and you better have sausages!” and Bob’s screaming back, “We’ll have it!” still makes me laugh every time.

Oh, go blow up British Parliament, you party pooper. 

Fun! I’ve tried binging it on Netflix a few times. The laugh track gets to be too jarring, and I usually take a break and come back to it again later. I grew up with shows with laugh tracks, too, it’s just that I disliked them even then and now that so many good sitcoms have moved away from them they’re even more…

That might be “Speakeasy Rider,” one of my favorite episodes of one of my favorite series, in which Teddy starts supplying the restaurant with his home brew, Teddy’s Brewski.

Holiday Special cantina or canonical cantina?

Is Cheers too obvious? It seems like the friendliest bar ever. Everybody already knows your name!

In that same opening scene in the premier there’s that first assemblage of the White Walkers’ victims’ body parts into some cryptic, rune-like symbol—the mystery of it and its hint at some rich mythology that would be explored helped hook me on the series right away.

As I say down thread, I was using a bit of hyperbole.

There was an episode of Red Letter Media’s Best of the Worst where Garth’s appearance came up, and according to the boys Dana Carvey based both Garth’s appearance and his mannerisms on his own brother, engineer Brad Carvey, creator of Video Toaster. Brad’s Wikipedia entry even makes note it, right down to how Garth…

Do Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys have any stank on ‘em? Cuz I’d nominate them, too.

Yeah, I was employing a bit of hyperbole in comparing her to Shkreli.

Get thee out of the greys! This ^, folks, is essential reading.

I usually don’t like to pass judgment on 19-year-olds, but holy hell is Olivia Jade tempting me. I didn’t know that she existed half an hour ago, and now she’s skyrocketed up to Martin Shkreli-levels of insufferability.

The closing numbers, in general, are so damned good. I still have “Pesto in My Pants” stuck in my head from last week, and I love it:

“Is ‘Roamin’ Bob-iday' the show’s most wonderfully, brutally convoluted episode title? I’m immediately putting it in the top five.”

Yep, she’s bi. Tessa Thompson and Taika Waititi even tried to work in a scene that alluded to the fact, but it ended up being cut:

It’s not hard to see why film critics have taken a special shine to this festival—and I’m not just talking about the fact that most of us, full disclosure, cover it as official guests, put up in hotels and carted into downtown Columbia, Missouri each day by free shuttles.