I checked, and sure enough The Originals, The New Originals and The Regulars were all taken. The Thamesmen and Lovely Lads are both available, though.

The point is that she's irritating, but (at least until the last minute of this episode) she's all that's left. If she was the dream girl played by Alexandra Daddario who was super chill and down to do whatever Phil wanted to do, there would be no conflict whatsoever and therefore no show.

I thought they'd go the Lost route pretty quick and have every episode (except maybe the pilot) be half-flashback. But if I had to guess I'd say they wait until the second half of the season and do a single flashback episode.

That's Mad Magazine for you. Always churning out the edgiest topical comedy of 1919.

Maybe they booked him after they booked Shaq? I could see him agreeing to do it if they promised he could hang out with Shaq and there was an open bar.

It's not exactly a new concept. America's Funniest Home Videos has been running for 25 seasons now and went into syndication pretty quick. Tosh.0 actually has more original content than that with his little skits and the web redemption stuff (assuming they still do that.)

This is only tangentially related to the article, but I've thought for years that "underpants" is inherently funnier than "underwear" or any other term for undergarments. Ditto "Eyeball" as opposed to "eye."

We're through the looking glass, people.

I too would like to meet The Legend.

He must not have had an older brother.

If they speed up one of Hitler's speeches, take out all the other audio and just play Yakety Sax, it would probably become my new favorite video. Dude's gesticulations were made for that song.

His solo work is hit or miss, but Bruno Mars produced and co-wrote Cee-lo's "Fuck You" and a handful of other really good songs.

Is there any film clip in existence that wouldn't be improved by setting it to "Yakety Sax?"

"Well there was, there was another group in the east end called The Originals and we had to rename ourselves."
"The New Originals."
"The New Originals and then, uh, they became…."
"The Regulars, they changed their name back to The Regulars and we thought well, we could go back to The Originals but what's the point?"

Pretty much everything in the future is going to have an eerie glow—beverages, clothing, genitalia…

Tom Green did when Freddie Got Fingered swept, and I think Halle Berry accepted her Catwoman award. But there's no way Kirk Cameron is self-aware enough to show up to this.

Atlas Shrugged 3: Who is John Galt? got robbed in the Worst Sequel/Remake category.

I made a very detailed case for Oregon ages ago on some Simpsons forum, based on its geographic features and other details that ruled out other states. But that was at least 15 continuity-wrecking seasons ago, so now I'm firmly in the "it's a cartoon and I shouldn't care but secretly still do" camp.

That's a fair criticism. I just found it so damn delightful that I was willing to write off a lot of that stuff.

A lot of the Best Picture discussion was about Birdman v. Boyhood, but I honestly wanted Grand Budapest Hotel to win most of all. It's not that the other two weren't deserving in their own right, but GBH was the most enjoyable of the three and probably the only one I have any desire to see a second time.