Oof.

50s Dragnet is a lot darker. The 60s version was almost as campy as Batman.

Does it come with one of those "X" hats?

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I have to go buy a flask like right now. Pulling it out and taking a swig is the perfect way to indifference to whatever my surroundings happen to be.

Perhaps, but one might also say that if what you're doing requires justification at all, perhaps you simply shouldn't be doing it.

I like where you call the internet "the library."

You know where in the article Todd says he wishes people would have a little shame about it? He's talking to you. Nobody really blames you for doing what you're doing, but going on at length justifying why, when you do it, it's really almost a good thing is really pushing it.

Losing the TV version is usually the death knell for most things, isn't it? Or a movie adaptation that flops? There's probably a sense of ennui now at TAL where they can keep doing it forever but it's already peaked as much as it possibly could.

In defense of Larry Miller being out of step with the times.. I think that's the point. He's definitely of another era without being the least bit schmaltzy. Not in a way where he's aping some comedian or scene or style from the past, it's more like he's, I don't know, your dad's surprisingly witty co worker and…

I suspect it was graded a miss because of PFT OD. He could really do well to give up being a podcast guest for Lent.

The documentary crew device really cemented it for me, this show is Reno 911 with a poker face.

To be fair, he may have gone on to retract that line had he not died at the relatively young age of 44.

Well, makes sense… The executives and show runners at ABC now were the kids and teens watching cable in the 80s.

For that matter the Sopranos, more than just about any other show I can think of, really knew how to END an episode. Think of the typical Sopranos episode's ending- it's almost always a visually striking image and a well- chosen song, and a scene that has closure for that episode's story and draws you into the world a…

He's got a Jack Black thing going… His sensibility seems like a revelation the first time you see it, but wears thin pretty quick, and doesn't translate well at all to goofy and broad mainstream comedies.

Well.. This is the South.

You're not the only detractor, vanzettis sacco puppet. I'm more than a little weary of the cops running into one broad urban stereotype after another, who do nothing but act as sock puppets and straight men so the cops can give their little one-sided speeches. Honestly this show feels to me like a weird inverse parody…

Well… yes… but it is a comedy… and they did look kind of ridiculous being in their 30s or whatever they were and shooting ghosts too…

Fuck it, let's name names. I think the fault lies squarely at the feet of one J. Evan Bonifant.