Weekend Update was great. The rest of the episode was not. Cecily's line about how "some people can't go to Wendy's anymore" was perfect.

The Pixies should learn a trick from The Breeders about spreading out your albums and continuously pushing your sound. I think the two Breeders albums post Last Splash were experimental masterpieces. I suspect that Kim didn't want to be involved with a new Pixies album because she knew the album's songs wouldn't be up…

He doesn't do many bends, so the strings are more serviceable in that respect.

I dug Star Wars, but nothing before that since A Ghost is Born…which is my favorite album by them. At this point I think they are through trying make classic albums. They set forth a collection of songs, and the good ones get consistent play at the live shows. I think they are much more of a live band now than they…

Tweedy played like Nels on AGIB, then got Nels and seemed to coerce him to play less aggro. If you want to see Nel's in full-on, aggro Nels, rocking mode check-out the album Contemplating the Engine Room by Mike Watt. He slays dragons on that album. His cover of BOC's "Burning for You" is choice as well.

There seems to be a civil war raging in this woman's head at every minute of the day. I just love that OBJr has just completely by-passed any sort of response whatsoever. He's just treating it like he was sitting sitting next to a schizophrenic person on the subway. It feels like him not even acknowledging the apology…

I think a lot of people are also having issues with the portrayals of teachers and administrators as conniving and often bumbling dipshits. I am very much enjoying the satirical takedown of this culture, as I often think this culture takes themselves far too seriously and are often very reluctant to address their own…

I liked the field trip episode a little more, but this was definitely my second fave. The kid falling of the desk in the spinning office chair was such a little gem. I really enjoyed this one. Very even, very entertaining, and even a little touching at the end. Good stuff.

Makes me wanna kick a fetus.

Yup. I bet they avoided "the no splattered blood" argument because it would have been too tough for the jury to convict him knowing that he, basically, wasn't covered with the victims blood when they found him. I guess the writers had to connect the murder with the knife game, but disregarding the fact that the…

Loved this episode. The actress that played Ms. Abbot was fantastic. I think it was the first episode to really play with the notion that the teachers and supervisors have the same bad traits as the kids as well. I dunno, I thought it was really great and hysterically, laugh-out loud funny in at least three instances.…

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Constantly throwing off the pace at (basically) the most prestigious level of live sketch comedy one can obtain (SNL) is pretty inexcusable. Everytime a line is flubbed, or comes in a couple beats too late, the fourth wall is broken down a bit and the illusion of the scene starts to crack, as the reality of errors…

I thought her mom WAS Amy Poehler! Her and her mom look like sisters.

With SNL doing so well mining old talent (Hammond and Carvey in this week's case) it really surprises me that no one has tried to create some sort of a sketch comedy all-stars type of SNL show. Maybe anchor it with a couple of really solid, utility players (Ferrell, Hammond, McKinny, Odenkirk, Molly Shannon, Maya…

In McKinney's defense, he did get Fecal Matters which I always found funny. They really didn't give him much though. Didn't he do a couple Chicken Lady skits for SNL? I seem to recall that for some reason. Kids In The Hall was also under the Lorne umbrella, so they could probably cross-over characters.

It seemed like a chance for her to finally get a nice spotlight, and she really blew it. It just seemed like she was sleepwalking through the whole bit. She's very reliable as a peformer, but this seemed unusually lazy. I still think she's way under-utilized on the show though, but, in the show's defense, there is a…

This feels a tiny fraction less weird than New Kids on the Block touring and writing new material in 2016. Some music just doesn't really work with the Rolling Stones/Who/Neil Young/Pink Floyd model of aging with grace. That photo just seems kinda sad to me as well. It's like the hair metal bands that dye their hair…

I visited you from college to tell you that.

By the time it got to NOFX and Blink 182 it was too cookie cutter and repetitive. Like punk stuff tends to get, it became conformist. It probably was more that a band like The Fastbacks came from building on a foundation of being influenced by The Who, The Buzzcocks and Robyn Hitchcock, while a band like Blink 182 was…