Oh this one is easy: Fallon is softball host who does inane things on camera and never, ever does anything remotely intellectually challenging which means celebs shilling projects know they’ll come away looking good.  He’s a tool, and everyone (but him) knows he’s a tool.

It also works because the others are in on the joke. Look at Day once Gardner starts to break. He doubles down. He’s trying to make her laugh. He’s in on it, and that’s what makes it so funny, because Gardner wants to keep her cool and keep the sketch going, but Day won’t let her.

Sure I can see if it happens every time, but everyone is going to break a time or two if things get really ridiculous, so in this case it definitely did feel earned.

Yeah, when I said “unprofessional” honestly I was directly thinking about the classic Fallon/Horatio Sanz team where they both just could not keep it together especially when they were in scenes together. How that guy has managed to fall ass-backwards into the success he has continues to puzzle me.

Same, I never got the “professional” part of it.  They’re professional funny people.  It’s weird that they’re not allowed to laugh.  I can see if it happens every time, like with Fallon, but clutching pearls over it happening every now and again makes me wonder why you’re watching comedy in the first place.

Yeah, there’s a sketch comedy cool kid ethos that says breaking during a sketch represents a kind of violation of a sacred trust between writer and performer and audience. And certainly you never want to go Full Fallon. But seeing a seasoned professional (and a very funny performer) like Gardner just absolutely lose…

Breaking can be a real hit-or-miss thing for me. Sometimes it just seems unprofessional/amateur, sometimes it’s funny. This is one of those cases where it was pretty great. Probably because, as mentioned, Gardner’s usually pretty good at keeping her cool, and seeing her lose it over Day in particular made an okay…

AI Trains. Been there, done that.

After several crashes when I started, I was able to run my model railroad for sometimes an hour before scale catastrophe.  Perhaps the solution is remote operated trains piloted by children.  Some of them may even do it for free.  I know I would have...

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(shrug)

You didn’t disappoint, thanks!

You first. One, that number... Is more than 41k, thereby shooting your initial premise in the foot, and that is after Tesla’s BS “gas savings” subtraction. My Corvette didn’t cost more to buy because it gets poor MPG, and this doesn’t cost less to buy because it doesn’t use gas.

Calm down. Breathe.

Found one!

A big part of being in a cult is having to constantly apologize for the inherent shittiness of life in the cult.

“Exactly as I expected it would happen.” - Melon Usk, placing an empty pepper grinder on the back of his sofa before giving himself a wedgie, the latest moves of the ketamine-fueled 5D chess match he continues to play with himself...

For mesk-defenders saying that *all* new car owners should do this, puh-leeeeeeeeeeease.

People who film trains in portrait mode are a special kind of disappointing.

Anyone who’s TT moniker is “Mr. Bob Dobalina” is one righteous funky homo sapien.