i would gladly give up the intricate storylines of seasons 4, 5 or 6 for an episode as crazily hilarious and inspired as the merv griffin show.

@avclub-9f2a7be7307a257fba74ce8a62630299:disqus,  you're probably right.  i also got the same type of reaction from my entire family when i insisted we watch one of his nbc specials.  needless to say, i was the only one laughing.

fair enough.  i guess i'm missing something, or just don't get it.  wouldn't be the first time.

maybe it's a generational thing.  i'm guessing that anyone who thinks he is funny is under the age of 27.

yeah, i love the plinkett reviews, and at first the serial killer stuff was amusing.  like when he'd go down into the basement to find a star wars toy his grandkids played with and the camera would casually pan over to find a skull in the dirt, or a woman bound and gagged.  but the whole sub-plot kinda lost steam as…

so is todd gak.

i don't remember much about it— mainly the wookie stuff, bea arthur, and harvey corman pouring liquids into the top of his head.  i don't remember the boba fett cartoon at all.  but my overriding memory of it is the wookies not being able to celebrate life day, and chewie not being at home with his family, struck me…

i saw it at 10 or 11.  i still have the ad for it that i cut out of tv guide. my sister and i were being babysat at my grandparents house, and i had to beg and beg to get to watch this.  i remember being there that night, and that my grandpa had been watching a mini-series— i believe it was pearl, about the pearl…

well said, sir!

so i'm to celebrate a movie that doesn't care about developing interesting characters or creating an interesting story on which to hang it's awesome set pieces?  dont' get me wrong, i love a good action sequence, but i need a little more than a couple of 5-10 minute action sequences when i go to the movies.

my mistake.  i'd just assumed the same person was writing the late night round-ups.  next time i shall read the fucking byline.

yeah, these late night write ups have been pretty disappointing.  he really showed his stripes when he dissed conan's remote segments, then a week or two later creamed his jeans over craig ferguson, who basically rambles/riffs for 45 minutes (which some like, i realize, but it's not exactly adventurous comedy).

no hate boner, just think he's an untalented, uninteresting actor who for some reason (money) really talented directors insist on working with.  i don't even give a shit that he's a scientologist.  if he were a good actor, i wouldn't care (see: beck).

no, brad bird lost points for wasting his particular genius on the personality-less mission impossible movies.  my idiotic obsession with hating tom cruise has nothing to do with it.

the married to the mob soundtrack has a feelies song on it, and it's a pretty great soundtrack to boot.

i kinda liked her in that one superhero movie with uma thurman and luke wilson, though that movie was not that good.

yeah, when i looked it up, i was surprised at how fondly i remembered some of those first season episodes, and at how late some of the bad ones appeared.  that dog on is pretty bad.

didn't know what just friends was, so i looked it up on imdb.  i gotta say, just looking at that movie's poster makes me want to puke.

i started to see through cruise as far back as top gun, rainman and the color of money.  he is not an actor— he is incapable of portraying such basic human qualities as warmth, humor or empathy.  he can play cocky assholes because he is a cocky asshole.  and he can cry every once in a while.  that's not acting.

yeah, i didn't understand that bit of the review, either.