I've given up trying to understand how Podmass rates the Best Show. Any show with a Matthew Tompkins call is an instant classic, I loved how it started out making fun of fall shows about new parents and nerdy girls, and eventually just got insane. So many great lines.
"Paul Stanley's Family Jewels. It's actually about…

Haven't listened to the episode yet, but I think Lisa Lampanelli is terrible regardless of the fact that she doesn't mean what she says. I don't care that she's not actually racist, she writes lazy, easy jokes based around stereotypes. Black people have big dicks? Chinese people can't drive? You don't say!

I've got your phenylacetic acid right here! *grabs crotch*

It's partially the recipe but it also partially the procedure. As the show has said, bikers used to use the methylamine cook back in the 80s, the reason Walt's is so pure is both because he uses certain techniques (I don't think they've gone full detail on what they are, but he explained some of them to Gale) and…

It was that scene that got me thinking how this whole scenario would have played out if Heisenberg himself had gone down to Mexico instead of Jesse. Walt probably would've reacted the same way to the Mexican chemist guy, but would Walt have saved Mike and Gus? Or would he have taken advantage of the opportunity to let…

We can't ever go back to Arizona!

Loved Hodgman on the Best Show this week, he really brings out the nerd in Tom, which is always fun to hear (I loved the idea of a Green Lantern switcharoo movie starring Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan and Jason Bateman as Guy Gardner). The Wurster call was pretty great too. "Oh no, the Water Police are here!" might be…

Completely agree with everything you said. I love Todd Glass and his obsession with bits (and equal obsession with bailing on bits), and his scattered train of thought really works when he's driving the bus. Sometimes the show can go on for too long about stand-up minutiae, but when it's on, it's on. And listening to…

I agree with what you say and I'm fine with Walt being an asshole to people, I expect it and I haven't rooted for him since he let Jane die, but he used to have more common sense, he used to consider the whole situation before trying to hatch a scheme that took advantage of it for his benefit, but now he doesn't even…

I think if that ever gets out, Jesse would murder Walt without a second thought. In fact, I kind of want that to happen now because I hate Walt so much, but at the same time killing another person, especially Walt, would probably send Jesse over the edge for good.

Great point Baramos, I hadn't even thought of that, it's amazing how many parallels they draw between different characters' situations. The show is almost Marxist in it's depiction of the relations between different powers in the meth game, though the drug trade functions more like feudalism with capitalist elements…

If you watch the preview scene from next weeks episode on AMC's website, you can see Saul is in fact in it.

Pff, cat party? Welcome to six months ago! I'm down with dog party now.

It seems like season 4 has been all about making me hate Walt even more, like they've totally abandoned the anti-hero aspects of Walt and just want to see how much of a villain they can make him.

Yeah, paying the IRS you back taxes and fines with unlaundered money seems like a pretty terrible idea.

I think it's just because the stakes in her plotlines are so much lower compared to everyone else. Tax fraud and money laundering aren't that exciting when you have war brewing between the meth kingpin of the southwest and the cartel as one story, Walt trying to kill the meth kingpin of the southwest as another story,…

Thing is though, Nick Swardson's stand up is pretty funny, and he's good on podcasts. His sketch show on Comedy Central was hit-or-miss, but it had some genuine laughs in there. Which is why it's surprising to me that he went through the whole writing and production process of this movie without ever once going, "Hey,…

You're trying to be meta meta right? Or is it more you're sick of the comments on the free website you're currently commenting on? Like you're kind of jaded, and now you've stripped away all the whitewash and you can see how one-dimensional people cracking wise at people cracking wise at pop culture minutia are?

Pollak is like bizarro Paul F. Tompkins, instead of getting me into new podcasts by being a guest on them, I actively avoid all podcast episodes with Kevin Pollak as a guest, even when its a show I normally love. He's that much of an insufferable douche.

The PFT episode showcased the problem with HDTGM. PFT joking about the movie came from a place of bemusement, as is his style. PFT finds absurd things delightful, and he uses them as a jumping off point to get even more absurd, and its funny.