Oh, they give Fs on TV reviews - "Glee"'s gotten two or three, and I'm pretty sure the protracted death throes of "Heroes" got more than a few   installments branded with "The Embittered Curmudgeon's D-."

Yes yes yes yes yes.  The reprise of the speech, the perfect moment of silence that follows it, her laugh, the look Daniel gives her (which is definitely a "cool it" look, but I always picked up a little undercurrent of amusement at her figuring him out, but that may just be projection on my part), and the capper,…

LAV is one of Eli Roth's favorite films.  Which makes sense, because it's the closest early-80s teen sex comedies ever got to torture porn.

He wouldn't be as consistent as was Carson daily.

Now that I look at that trailer again, the network president (or CEO or whatever) is played by a woman, just like in Finkleman's series, and that woman just happens to be Jane Fonda, which makes one think of the "Meltdown" three-parter at the end of THE NEWSROOM's first season… Yeah, Sorkin's just rubbing it in his…

I don't know what you're talking about.  That fourteen-minute monologue at the end of Sorkin's pilot where Jeff Daniels harangues the network president about the lack of bran muffins in the cafeteria, ending with the entire cast dancing around him in a circle to the strains of Nino Rota, is wholly and entirely…

Man, what with the latest wrinkles in the Keith Olbermann saga, Sorkin must be beaming at the good timing of all of this.  (Come to think of it, I guess Sorkin now owes fully half of his television career to Keith, doesn't he?)

Finkleman must be pissed off.  Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme already kiped the whole walk-and-talk thing from him, and now this…?  (But then again, Finkleman's spent much of his career appropriating things from everyone from Garry Shandling to Federico Fellini, so…)

Seconding @avclub-1e850f6bef0bc36ca1f64e95ff1cbd2e:disqus 's comments.  (According to Hendra, "Boomer humor" was a phrase forced on him by his publisher and he was just as embarrassed by it as the reader is, but, for reasons too horrible and nauseating to reiterate, I don't know how much stock I'd put in anything he…

Not a good cover, but I'll let it slide, seeing as it was done by a genuine golden-age Lampoon artist (and the guy responsible for the simply awesome DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD NatLamp coffee-table book).  Don't let that dissuade you, though - it does well by its subject, ends with the rare Chevy Chase anecdote that…

Reading about this just makes me want Ramis to go ahead and write his autobiography.  Somebody who's rubbed shoulders with as many comic greats as he and happens to be immensely bright and cogent to boot - I think it'd be an absolute slam dunk.  (Plus, I'm sure he'd break down the intellectual infrastructure of…

Thank YOU, Globy.  That's seriously one of the funniest half-hours of TV I've ever seen - I've watched this episode a dozen times and the water fountain sign gag still makes me laugh for a solid minute whenever I see it.  Good work.  You deserve the appreciation.

Well, god, he WAS searching for him, after all.

Yeah, "Up-Tight: The Velvet Underground Story," by Victor Bockris and Gerard Malanga.  More or less definitive in my eyes.

Clips?  The whole damn thing is up there, from several sources (and thank you, YouTube, for dropping that ridiculous ten-minute clip limit).

Tom's of Finland: worst toothpaste ever. (The tubes are impressively large, though.)

Adding to Glancy's comment below: they also said that they were concerned that Griffin might have lifted that melody from somewhere, so they gave him a co-writing credit so they could throw him under the bus if it turned out to be true.

And hey, while we're (well, I'm) talking about Serling, has anybody here ever seen any episodes of the show he did right after TTZ, "The Loner"?  It was a Western starring Lloyd Bridges as an ex-Union Calvary Captain just after the Civil War.  It only lasted a year (the audience and the network brass didn't know what…

Um, no.

Woah - the second-unit director on M*A*S*H was Andy Sidaris?  The auteur behind the tits-and-explosions 3-AM-on-Showtime classics "Hard Ticket to Hawaii," "Picasso Trigger" and "Savage Beach"?  Genius begets genius, I guess…