I actually liked the "preying on old people" reveal, because it explains how the dudes are actually able to be good enough at their jobs to keep them.

I love his bouncy little Nash Rickey walk. Kroll really does a great job of embodying different physicalities for his various characters.

my husband & I still haven't beaten Portal 2's co-op mode due to its aforementioned potential to incite discord. but we just got our third Munchkin expansion pack a couple weekends ago, so it's pretty likely that we'll end up playing it at some point this weekend.

the other day I said something like "I am very much hungry," followed by "what the hell, am I talking like Bobby Bottleservice now?"

"ha! I love that."

honestly, the "keep creepily pursuing a lady despite her increasingly unequivocal declarations of disinterest" is SO ingrained in pop culture that I wanted to cheer at that series of Diaz flashbacks shutting Boyle down. it wasn't over-the-top (& it was definitely in character), but it was a nice to see the message…

my dad always goes with "Txgvg" which I enjoy if only because it would result in a killer Scrabble score if only it were a valid word.

my favorite part of this story is the implication that everyone in LA is "in the sex industry."

even better—I flipped to that right on the "diamond ring" line, which made me feel like the whole thing was rigged (in the best possible way).

yeah, they're both "this is absurd but I'm along for the ride" type shows with characters that are easy to get invested in. (I was a huge fan of Lost, too, even the end, which says a lot about my particular TV tastes.)

yeah, I'm the type of person who exclusively drinks tap water & I make an exception for Phoenix too—it tastes like dirt. prally because it's wastewater with all of Colorado's excretions filtered out of it (…or so I remember hearing one time. but whatever the reason, it's definitely disgusting).

the "Dr. Victor Frankenstein's Monster" bit just killed me—the perfect over-overcorrection to the "well TECHNICALLY the green guy isn't named Frankenstein" pedantry that I often find myself succumbing to.

I do not know, actually! I agree that "they" is a very useful gender-neutral in English, but for gendered foreign languages my *guess* is that you'd default to male, since that's generally how that works (e.g., a group of 2,300 women & one man is still "ellos"). but I can see how that'd cause issues. another option is…

yes—because a trans man is a man.

apparently you're the only one in this thread I feel compelled to reply to. but anyways, I ended up coming around to her initial inability to speak/admit the truth during the dream-test-sequence, since that's such a typical nightmare scenario—you want to run/call for help/etc. but something's stopping you. so I can…

I called shenanigans on that too (despite my husband's assertion that they're "everywhere"—he's from Arizona; of course he'd think that), but then I saw this: http://greaterhudsonvalley….. so I guess it's reasonable enough on a show that already features a mysteriously undead 18th-century dude among other…

I actually don't think I ever saw/heard that before! but I still like how in this year's promos everyone's suddenly in their underwear.

I dunno—I got into the Neely bros. via "Washington" (& the equally good "JFK") & I LOVE China, IL. if nothing else, the theme song (& other random musical numbers are a trip). I've seen the "get your ass back to school" promo for the new season exactly once, & it keeps randomly popping into my head—them Neelys sure…

"Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk."

okay, wait—all legitimate critique aside, I just remembered one segment of this episode that made me laugh so hard that I had to rewatch it.