It wasn’t *his* sound, btw. It was stumbled on when he was doing drums from Peter Gabriel’s 3rd album (aka “Melt”), Phil sat down to warm up and started doing bass/snare pattern (boom boom POP boom.. boom POP)

I remember the music considered “oldies” when I was a 90s kid and it was from late 60s to early 80s. Pop music has a short expiration date.

I would say his reputation for “grampa rock” is also very overstated. In the early and mid 80's he was known for music like this which was a staple on the coolest shows at the time, like Miami Vice, which in turn basically set 80's fashion to what we know of today (the sports coat with t shirt, etc..). He was the targe…

saw his career shatter into pieces after his turncoat partner threw him through a window on January 11, 1992

That's my favourite episode of the show specifically cause he showed up in it. Dude should've gone far, man.

Commenting from THE FUTURE to agree, he kills it through the series. I think there's a John Goodman in Barton Fink performance in him.

And everything involving Abby is 1000% less appropriate. In the movie, Abby makes out with what looks like an 11 or 12 year old boy. That's now been retconned to be age appropriate.

That kid may have been my favorite part of the entire series.

He was just so fucking funny, which is amazing to me because I went to elementary school with (and beat the shit out of) a little bastard who was a lot like this, except without all the swearing. I normally hate that kind of character but goddamn if that kid doesn't have some of the best timing and delivery I've seen.

Even if the acting thing doesn't work out, he can always rest on his Fuckin' Burp King of Westchester County laurels.

He also enjoyed the trip to town the most in the movie!

Completely agree. He was actually probably my MVP for the series. I couldn't help but laugh out loud in particular when he was transformed into a tortoise by Weird Al'. It was the strained expression of revelation on his face that did it for me.

Re: the Little Bully. I liked how effortlessly he uses profanity, and what a vicious little bastard he is.

I generally hate kids, and I hate bullies, and I especially hate watching child actors play jerks, but that kid is awesome. Hell, even the kid who played Kevin was a really good straight man and he and his crush really nailed their emotional beats without sucking the comedy out of the movie.

I'm a big fan of the Nose Game bit (mainly for how juvenile and silly it all is), Lindsay's dictating of her article and the Convenience Store section but I think my favourite joke in this episode is at the end when Blake is rallying Tigerclaw against Firewood. "We are!" "Camp Tigerclaw!" "We are!" "Camp Tigerclaw!"…

That's one of the things I missed from the movie: the fact that people and things simply disappear when they're no longer needed for the scene, with no thought to why or how they exit. Neuman handing his trophy offscreen to no one in particular is a highlight.

In the movie, when Paul Rudd tells him to get lost and he just walks directly off the dock, falling straight into the water face-first makes me lose it every time. He's a really gifted physical performer.

Let me help you with the humor. Most of the non-gag stuff on this show comes from identifying with things kids do, especially at camp, but also as teenagers in general. For example:

This is not necessarily specific to this episode, but Zak Orth is criminally underrated. I love how his character is always unreasonably excited about any kind of performance (the musicals, hypnotist, talent show).

All right, last paragraph:

"Maybe it's true what they say. Teenagers are archetypes. If so, they were all here. The nice guy, the popular girl, the rebel, the goody-goody, the ladies' man, the sweetheart, the theater kid, the flirt, the sidekick, the wild man, the jock, um, that guy. No, I've never seen her before.…