NEVER FORGET.

Belzer’s description of the real life Munch, Jay Landsman, from the 2010 AVClub interview (wish links weren’t broken!) is worth a read, since it was why he ended up getting cast despite concerns about his acting.

I liked how even Munch found Fox Mulder a bit over the top with his theories.

Bummer! I guess I was 1 of only 5 people who liked this half hour of silliness. It even improves on rewatch with all the jokes going on with background players.

. . . just I Love Lucy for Gen X . . .

Yeah, it’s not that bad. It’s like the perfect mashup of The Adventures of Pluto Nash and Battlefield Earth.

Did his cameraman father get him a job in the Byrds?

Right. His father had showbiz connections and like three hundred years ago, his mother’s family owned 55,000 acres of Westchester County, so we have to take away or put an asterisk next to all of his achievements because he was born on third base and had such an easy life. /s

Fortunately, Joni Mitchell had no parents. Like Aphrodite, she rose from the sea and the gentle breeze blew her to Canada.

Hooked from the very beginning. The prologue was spectacular and honestly a shock. You just don’t expect that death

A rough day for fans of scream-stammering. 

I like this part: “As foreshadowing goes it’s a fairly opaque reference, but looking back on it now it seems obvious.”

Don’t sweat it, my dude. How was your ad experience?

years later I remember only a couple of things from the book: the plot points that move the story forward in its second and third part, the daughter who loved to let the bread burn in the toaster and the neighbourhood who loved to see the Los Angeles sunsets as the pollution made them more beautiful. 

But the past tense form of “lead” really is spelled led... 

No, really, a professor of Hitler Studies. He invents the first university department of Hitler Studies. This is postmodern lit, not reality. 

Well I mean...when I’m in an existential crisis, wondering why I’m here and whatnot, I often find myself annoyed by the various armed robberies and attempted murders that often occur in my vicinity. So it works. 

Do you mean exacerbated rather than exasperated?

Stamos defends his ex-convict and Full House costar

They made 3.