Some shows benefit from it, because the episodes kind of blend together. Wet Hot American Summer: First Day and the new Arrested Development season are both designed from the ground-up for the format, and let the content speak as one piece to be binged.

This is true. The "Have you watched Wet Hot yet?!" discussions I've been having have to be qualified with a "how much?"

Dear Esther made me realize that my gaming tastes are quite conservative, actually. It was a revealing and depressing couple of hours inside my head.

As a Chicago native and a horror nut, this is all very relevant to me. Thanks.

Haven't seen The Pact, but I was under the impression Casper Van Dien only gave one good performance, and that was in Starship Troopers.

I skip Marc's intro 75% of the time. He's even made jokes about how people skip them to hop into the interviews. Pretty much unless he's talking about the context of the interview, or explaining his relationship to the interviewee, it doesn't do much for me.

The intro is pretty important, as if you had asked them a few months ago if they ever htought they'd ACTUALLY get U2 on the show, they'd say hell no.

The podcast gestapo are brutal.

The structure of podcasts is kind of nice, in that as long as both Scotts live near Earwolf, they can come back in 4 years and do another ep.

Neither do Satanists. That's religious paraphernalia and it will be treated with respect.

I'd throw a few more requirements on that list, as long as the Angel of Debt is taking requests.

Do you need a hug?

It's more parody but it's definitely a parody of noir tropes.

Defining the genre as strictly American is goofy, considering the word "noir" is derived from French reactions to the American movement.

A lot of homophobia hides under the surface of coded language and old terminology. Doesn't Bogey basically call one of the henchman in Maltese Falcon a 1940s version of "fag"?

It's strangely charming to see the colors pop like that. It's an inept movie, through and through, but part of what makes it so obviously bad is every other print of it looks like it was run through sewage water between the reel and the projector.

I found my first one in a thrift store in a shitty neighborhood, my next one from an old guy on Craigslist, and I bought my third one as a new, modern one on Amazon. I gladly traded in street cred and "retro cool" for something that actually sounds good.

He was definitely running around more, and not just relegated to a few scenes in the kitchen like he is here. He + Zac Orth discover that Michael Ian Black + Bradley Cooper are together.

Yes. If I could say one thing to myself in high school, it would be just that.

"Bob won't let us have any fun!"