“Plague Pit: Kids Dumped Free With Parents” is a beautiful, beautiful joke. 

Watched Disenchantment. I’ve got mixed feelings. On the plus side, John DiMaggio nails his performance as the King right out of the gate. Abbi Jacobson really brings the character to life a few episodes in. (I thought the first couple episodes, her delivery seemed sort of flat and hollow.) The supporting cast is…

I freaking love Mad Men. I just did a re-watch earlier this year, and it’s a toss-up between it and The Wire for my favorite series ever. I can’t pick a favorite season—season 2 is the only one that I’d immediately disqualify, because I think Betty’s horse-riding lessons were the only bum story-arc the show ever did.

I remember being really nervous about the final batch of episodes before they aired, and incredibly relieved at how satisfying they were. The second-to-last (I think) episode is a series highlight for me. It’s not truly a bottle episode, but damned if my memory doesn’t file it away as a Peggy and Roger bottle episode,…

My working theory is that 90% of everything—books, music, television, movies, people, everything—is bullshit. Neither good nor bad, it’s just there, fine if you like that sort of thing. The fight between great and terrible makes up the remaining 10% (I’d give “terrible” probably a 2-to-1 advantage).

The supporting voice cast is dynamite, but of the three leads, Eric Andre is the only one that works right now.

Who keeps going to see this shit?

Time to pay our last R-E-S-P-E-C-T-S.

Scans for mentions of “coherent plotting,” “plausible dialogue,” “stops fucking around.”

Trenchant.

“Everybody loves advertisements, right? But we never get to see the people who make the commercials. This show is about them, 45 years ago.”

I track my progress through adulthood by the number of jokes I get in MST3K that baffled me as a child.

That’s ridiculous. It’s a science oven. 

“Well, if you won’t confess to a felony, how about being abducted by aliens? Mind you, the pay isn’t as good, but it’s steady work.”

I have an alibi!

It’s really a perfect song for the loud-quiet-loud treatment, with that big chorus, where the original is all sanded down. That’s the direction I expected (and wanted) a Weezer cover to take it, but it is a pure soundalike.

I’ve said this for years now. Their killer-to-filler ratio has gone in the wrong direction, but they still crank out some great music. I don’t care about how “sincere” it is, or whether Rivers Cuomo is too old to be singing his lyrics, or the debate about art vs. craft.

I’d have thought that people interested in achievement in cinema and people interested in horribly written and acted promotional skits and cobbled-together musical numbers would have been two very distinct groups of people, but apparently it’s just me.

>overlong episodes

I’m inclined to agree with you... but I’m only applying 10 years of The Simpsons and 5 years of Futurama, so he’s still got a ways to go.