The problem with Wiig’s sketches is that while she’s funny and versatile, they almost always boiled down to “hey, do this one silly thing over and over and over for five excruciating minutes.”

Beck Bennett was the glue guy, in the same mold that had previously been filled by Jason Sudeikis and now seems to be coalescing around either James Austin Johnson or maybe Andrew Dismukes.  Sometimes the loony one in the skit, but most often the straight man reacting to what the christ is going on around him.

Hmmm.... they know they’re going to get hit for the profit drop, so whoa, what an astonishing thing that they mentioned the affordable model again!  (It’s bullshit and they clearly threw that in there only to try to lessen the stock hit.)

Same here.  I would have considered it, and did consider it, but the worse he’s gotten the less I have, and now that there are plenty of other viable options, forget Tesla.  

Oh absolutely, that one’s dead-on parody.

All that stuff looks like it’s evoking Fury Road, sure, but it’s also straight out of Old Man Logan.

Watching XMen 97 was a cold splash of water - I hated hated hated the Wolverine voice and realized that Jackman’s been the Platonic Ideal Wolverine for almost that far back!

We don’t know yet that Nova won’t stick around.  I do think the extreme profanity of the trailer is specifically meant to assuage the people (nerds) who for the past couple of years have been expressing concerns that Disney Deadpool would take it down to PG or PG-13.  

That’s Canada’s ass!

Nah, it’s just her normal garden-variety telekinesis.

They also did this exact plot (with a school bus driver) on Grey’s Anatomy. And I have a foggy memory that perhaps ER did as well?

True, true.

Between that and whatever they’re spending on this ridiculous inchoate “Robo-Taxi” thing (even $1 would be too much), at the expense of the cheap widely-affordable option that they should be developing, Musk is driving them directly into a wall, just like an Autopilot.

Because music is in lots of places and things other than streaming!  If you are claiming that you’ve remained cut off from the entirety of audiovisual media for the past decade, then maybe it’s plausible.  Is that correct?

I don’t suppose there’s a suggestion box on that website, is there?

Yeah, seems like that ordinance would fall nicely into “time, place, and manner” in First Amendment analysis.  Might have problems under a more general “too vague” constitutional attack.

Is “free” in quotes because you think Biden said that, or to emphasis that you understand it’s not actually “free,” per my third note?

If you’re reading a Web site with the byline “Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed,” you’ve heard a Taylor Swift song before.

I actually don’t believe anyone who claims that they’ve never heard, at the very least, “Shake It Off.” That was everywhere.

There’s been some really lousy reporting on that, and this line in the story (and the linked article from which it came) joins that dubious body of work. The point in saying that the federal government will be responsible for the majority of the costs is that a) part of the point of having a federal government is to…