"It’s like they’ve all been grown from the same frothy mixture of Adult
Swim anti-comedy, vintage lens fetishism, and male pattern baldness."

I feel the same way about "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" from the end of Real Genius.

I thought that was because Frank Miller was an ultra right-wing loon? Why is Zack Snyder taking the blame now? His major flaw is being too literal and copying visuals from source material too precisely (but without transferring the "soul" of the work to the screen) but I don't think he really agrees with Miller's…

Hey, I liked U.S. Marshals!

You just made me realize, I don't think there's been a sitcom about a Black single mother since Julia in the late 60s.

I can't even imagine what that would be like. We should also work on the all-Black Gilmore Girls. I was watching an episode with my sister today and she hadn't seen it before—she said "so, this show is even whiter than Wings." She's not wrong.

Actually, that's not a bad idea. I mean, Seinfeld is broadly about New York culture, and more specifically about neurotic White New Yorkers (and even more specifically Jewish neurotic White New Yorkers). So why not use the same formula to put a specific urban Black culture under the microscope? As long as the writing…

It's a fun time machine back to the 90s and early 2000s, though. It's kind of shocking when you look back at it—I think it looks even more dated than Seinfeld.

Living Single actually started first, so Friends is the White version of it.

How could this have happened? You have a film completely based around music, some of it very popular music—and you don't triple check to make sure you paid to use all the songs? Jeez…

Hah, is it dorky that I have most of these? That Ad Hoc at home book is phenomenal. I would also recommend Jerusalem, Chez Panisse Vegetables, the Momofuku cookbook, and Notes from the Larder: A Kitchen Diary with Recipes.

I remember Margueirte Moreau was on this not-so-great family dramady back in the mid 2000s…Kelly Osbourne was also on it. She basically statutory raped one of the male leads. Good times! Beside that and Smallville, I can't think of shows I've seen her on, but she's not bad.

I loved that movie! It was so unexpectedly charming. Also, you can't go wrong with Michaela Watkins.

I'm bummed there's no Bradley Cooper, but it's impressive how they got pretty much everyone else (and who doesn't love Adam Scott?) Also, Lake Bell is one of the more underrated actors working in comedy now. She's not brilliant or anything, but she's always consistently good, yet she never seems to have gotten big—I…

I'm rooting so hard for Kesha. She's got talent, she's got vision, and she deserves a shot. Her early stuff was pretty much garbage, but at least it was fun garbage. Every artist deserves the chance to grow.

This sounds like an obnoxious, corporate version of The Point.

Berfredoman's got nards…

"There's a huge appetite for tax returns, I mean tax reform!"

I've always been partial to Ben Folds' piano bridge in "Song for the Dumped."

Right? Dr. Strange got the chains right, though—I love the look of the library in that movie.