There was an article a short while ago with a title something like “Girlfriends of angry racist right wingers discover that they’re also angry misogynist assholes too.” Remember that Trump aide who we found out was not only screwing Hope Hicks but he also beat-in his last two wives.

I could never understand why the hairy dude in the film was named after chewing tobacco.

You read most-any other religions’ texts, they’re in large part ‘spiritual’, for lack of a better term. The old testament, in contrast, is disjointed tribal folk tales. Our god is ‘king of the gods’, which implies there must be other gods for him to be king of, but that never gets mentioned again.

Heaven forbid Arabs shoot a film just as biased towards us as all our films for the pas 40 years have been biased towards them. Ever seen ‘True Lies’?

This sounds like a fate worse than death. I’m talking the movies, not the food. You’re not going to burn off the calories you ate watching people do nothing but walking for hours at a stretch.

I’m 3/4 the way through the thousand year old Japanese novel ‘The Tale of Genjl’ - the very good Penguin translation. To my surprise its an actual novel, not a fairytale or an epic. No battles or bloodshed or dragons. The author is female. The story oscillates between male and female characters. The man often thinks…

Kylie Jenner reminds me of the old musical movie ‘Gigi’. The story of a young woman who was raised by her family to become a courtesan.

Oooh, add AIDS to the story turns it considerably darker and sadder. I recall David Brudnoy, noted Boston conservative pundit, who publicly confirmed before his death that that, yes, you can catch AIDS from a BJ

I remember an old joke. I want to die in bed at age 99... shot by a jealous husband.

I was happy (pun intended) to see Nelson Rockefeller got mentioned, dead at the hands (so to speak) of Megan Marshack, 45 years his junior and most definitely not his wife, Happy.

Episode 103 Rebecca sang a song entitled ‘Please don’t be a murderer’. She and Heather moved into a notorious ‘murder house’. In the un-censored version of the cat lady song Rebecca strangles a cat to death with her bare hands. In her duet with Nathaniel they reference John Wayne Gacy. Rebecca’s obsession with death…

They probably thought they had a good idea with the Darryl baby B story. They could have pulled it off if only Pete Gardner hadn’t played him as a petulant child who wanted a new toy. Pregnant Heather was entertaining for 2-ish episodes, the Paula song was fantastic, but otherwise the story was just a big time sink.…

It was certainly a better episode than 309, which got an A-, I recall.

My memory of the show is distant - on-air viewer, no notalgia TV reruns. I can’t recall the show being this much of a hot mess. I guess whimsy a dozen years ago reads as self-involved dickishness now. Its like watching Woody Allen’s ‘Manhattan’ and having a completely different take on the film now compared to 1979.

There’s a derogatory term I recently learned: “The office bicycle”. In any other context it would be grossly offensive, but it this case the term appears to fit.

Rebecca tries on different personas and often over-reaches. From ‘Swimchan’ to ‘single cat lady’. This felt like Rebecca was putting on the persona of ‘martyr’. She wasn’t pleading guilty to attempted murder, she was pleading guilty to EVERYTHING. Saw prison time as a chance at expiation of ALL of her sins. Again,…

The original duet was going to be Nathaniel singing a love song something like ‘Its okay that you’re crazy because everyone’s crazy’ but they thought the song was too straightforward. So they elected to do a sardonic take on responsibility instead, which fit in more with the theme of the episode.

Lovell said that was all just improve on her part. To my ears it sounded like Heather ‘invoking the Deity’ basically involved calling the names of pop music stars.

Nathaniel had an entire ‘Settle For Me’ reprise song and dance number but he was too sick that day to film it. Plus the episode ran long and they did some judicious pruning of the episode.

That’s the issue ‘Swimchan’ Rebecca had when she threatened to murder Josh’s mom just to spook him then he showed up to confront her. She nearly got pushed into a construction pit. Don’t make threats you don’t mean, people tend to take the threats at face value.