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I already did!

"Wanna go to Monk's?"

My "NewsRadio in a nutshell" exchange:

I'd say George's reaction to Susan's death is the best encapsulation of the show.

"The truth may not always lead us down the road we want, but it's the only way to fix this place."

Even this is a false dichotomy— there are more possibilities than either "Bible literalism" or "total nothingness."

I don't know when it happened, but Hulu recently acquired a great deal of his material. You can't really go wrong going in chronological order, although season 1 of I'm Alan Partridge is probably my favorite.

Watched two episodes of Difficult People and he is easily the best part.

I think that's more of a long-term potential payoff.

You familiar with Alan Partridge? He's basically the archetype for that "detestable but fascinating," completely unsympathetic comedy protagonist. So if you like that about Review and Forrest McNeil, I think you'd like that about Alan Partridge.

"She mistook me for an intruder" cracked me up for that reason.

Oh, see, I find it inspirational (and aspirational). "You mean I can be every bit as nutty and eccentric as I care to be and still be a billionaire?"

At first I was like "Wow, there are a lot of good answers. I wonder what mine would be?" but then Will Harris answered and all became clear. I pretty much wanted to be Jimmy James when I grew up, when NewsRadio first aired.

Well, I didn't expect a reply, but thanks for the clarification. I've really scaled back my TV reading the last few months, everywhere, because I couldn't find enough that was really of the kind I'm looking for, and I burned out on the stuff I was talking about in my last comment. (And this is definitely a case where

"Scratchy Lotteries" is on my band name short list.

Ugh, I've bitched about this a lot (ask @disqus_wallflower:disqus), but I hate how TV falls under "Culture", because that's what dominates how television is written about today. "How does this show reflect what's going on in America today?" seems like a much more important question to them than "Is this show good?"

I don't think the form is necessarily stale— it's just whether or not you want your show to resemble theater (multi-cam) or film (single-cam).

Aw, man, I cracked up at the increasing awkwardness at Peele's insistence on having the conversation entirely in The Lion King metaphors.

Is your user name a reference to those "Yes, I am" Bud Light commercials from the 90s?

And flamed out again by the episode's end.