Still, why does it need to be covered? It's consistently a top 10 podcast and it's not like it's lacking exposure. There's hundreds of more interesting, more obscure podcasts that could use the press here. Like just for example the Big 3, or the Larry Miller podcast, both of which are great and tangentially Adam…

I'm more a fan of Seacouver, home of the Highlanders.

Midnight Madness.

Y'know, that reference would be pretty funny if you were hanging out with some friends and someone said it out of nowhere. Presumably it got a laugh in the writer's room and someone said "we have to use this!"

You left off Wild at Heart, Vampire's Kiss, Valley Girl, and most of all, possible-lifetime-pass Raising Arizona.

He was cartoonish from the beginning though. Silvio's absurd appearance is half the character. And I think he was wisely used sparingly because he is an absurd cartoon of a mobster, and too much Silvio story would have quickly worn thin.

Come on, in 1998 we knew it was going to be something more than a passing fad. The thing is there was a lot of talk everywhere and all of the time about what a revolution the internet was and all of the possibilities, when in actuality they were a long way from manifesting. That's why the people with bad ideas on the…

For some reason this sketch comes to mind.

He's perhaps correct in that someone who makes a living reviewing television comedy should be more aware of the history and references.

You should make it to the next meeting. We're gonna need a good tank when we raid Machu Picchu.

Well, yeah. Most people speculating on how to use the internet to get rich/advance their career in 1998 were more Ralph Kramden than Jeff Bezos.

The Chinese restaurant is kinda like Memento. It's too clever of a concept to actually be engaging as a piece of entertainment.

I wouldn't say the Seinfeld writers are dismissing the internet as a useless fad, as much as reacting to the state of of the web at the time… In 1997-1998 the internet was something everyone was aware of, but no one had really figured out exactly what to do with it yet besides look at porn, throw up geocities pages…

I don't agree. I don't really think "Big Fan" took any chances. It played out pretty much as you'd expect it to from hearing what it's about. The ending could have gone either way, but neither would have surprised me.

Have to agree.

You're not doing a great job at pretending to be Jimmy Buffet.

Sheesh, didn't the NFL do even the slightest bit of research on her history and her politics? I can't imagine a scenario where she *wouldn't* do something like this.

But you're basically implying she's getting hate and indignation because she's a woman and we're all sexist pigs trying to keep women down. Do you honestly think that is still the case with where we are now as a society in 2012?

So who's managed a great Russian accent then? It's a pretty outsized and even absurd accent to begin with, it always seems borderline comical in movies to me.

I always assumed what you'd call a true "soap opera" has a constant barrage of twists and turns with no real resolution. Storylines might come to an end, sure, but even those endings are fluid and often undone, and the characters rarely experience any growth or change from their experiences. There's no lessons learned…