I lost it in "Knockoffs" when Ilana's mom finds the dildo in Abbi's purse… and what could easily have turned into a cringe gag instead turns into a sedate, inquisitive, but still goddamn hilarious conversation about stimulation of the male prostate. While everyone should be sitting shiva.

If we're talking NewsRadio, I have to throw in for "Complaint Box."

"IT SMELLS LIKE BIGFOOT'S DIIIIICK!"

That was more a matter of the casting company that was hired (at least, if you buy Universal's story), but the firm put out a casting notice looking for backup female actors that openly used the paper bag test:

I keep seeing a particular sentiment among the women standing up for the film - "We know it's garbage, but it's garbage for US. Transformers gives the straight dudes big smashy robots, tough soldiers shooting guns, and plenty of ass shots of the superfluous female lead; Jupiter Ascending gives us the same thing, in…

It's an interesting bit of "failed" film theory, an attempt to reflect an era where you could flip the channel between Laugh-In and news stories on the latest hideous clusterfuck in Vietnam. But yeah, it… does not work for me.

It's a Frank Frazetta of Frank Zappa!

Chris-Chan was one of those grand self-feeding tire fires of the Internet. From my understanding of the pertinent details, Chris didn't have a fucking chance - he was on the spectrum but not receiving proper therapy, his home situation was dubious at best, he was seeking a girlfriend but with that sense of "I deserve…

Kill the Moon is also a debatably good episode with a plot resolution that's like diarrhea in a hot tub.

Yeah, I've been following kyle Kallgren for a while. He just reads that film to dust, and it deserves every mote of fury.

Well, yeah, anti-Stratfordianism is all about "one of those untitled poors couldn't have made ART." My question is whether Emmerich went in completely blind to those themes, or just didn't give a shit about their presence.

Which was either dreadfully blind to the underlying classism of it all, or embraced it entirely. For fuck's sake, it opens with Sir Derek Jacobi referring to Shakespeare as "the son of a glovemaker" with ball-withering contempt. Between that and this, it points to Emmerich being the kind of guy who thinks…

Well, he thanked "creatures." I'm sure Man-Thing applauded while watching from his swamp.

One of my favorite parts of the HDTGM episode on the movie is Paul, Jason, and June both replaying those monologues, trying to make their own ("You fuck, you miserable shitlick…"), and pointing out how fitting it is that the lead's now on a show where the ads were billboards saying "DON'T **** WITH MY CITY."

Whoops, sorry. Got the biology mixed up.

As this Thing has no dick, he has no need for dignity.

I'd say yes, and no. Yes, in that it's not as easy as just grabbing a property and trying to "bend" it to cinema; no, in that this movie feels like it comes from the era of Catwoman, where properties were folded, spindled, and mutilated to fit some sort of "commercial" idea.

Yes, another nod for John Rogers' D&D comic.

t's a good episode, and a good send-off for Cabin, but I did feel like they were skipping over some of the more egregious bits of the movie. The whole Venice sequence, with geographical clusterfucks that everyone up to Roger Ebert made hay of (Venice doesn't have streets wide enough to drive in, so why the sports car;…

"I do NOT have puppet cancer!"