Wasn't she, like, 12?

I'm not your buddy, guy!

I like "Frailty" a lot and will always defend Bill Paxton. But…when I think of someone who could be the poor man's Denzel Washington, his name is not the first that comes to my mind. It's somewhere behind, say, Carol Channing's.

Wait, is this a repost? I remember reading this exact headline, months or years ago, and thinking it was oddly sexual.

I've heard - possibly an urban legend - that Craig T. Nelson was supposed to play Jay and that Ed O'Neill was supposed to play Craig T. Nelson's role on "Parenthood", only for them to switch somehow. I like to imagine how Nelson (who I like) would have played Jay, and I think he'd have come out…a lot like Coach.…

Yeah, I was going to say, the Beetlejuice joke is good, but Abed delivering the baby and then the callback to it is more apropos.

That whole scene is probably the funniest thing I've ever seen. The whole setup is so heightened and over-the-top, and then Bart smashes the chair on his back, and Homer reacts like he's the dad from "The Middle".

At the beginning of the show, DJ was ten or so, Stephanie was five or so, and Michelle was a baby. By the end of the show, DJ was finishing high school. (I wish I didn't know this much about "Full House".)

When I was a kid, I saw the above-linked Newhart episode where Larry, Darryl, and Darryl make up their "jingle", and for easily twenty years, I've had the horrible "jingle" intermittently caught in my head. (If you haven't heard it, please don't click the link - it's like the video from "The Ring" - I mean, you won't…

I'm going to try, just because I grew up on the original series. But honestly, I think "Too Many Cooks" so completely deconstructed the surreality of the '80s family sitcom that I won't be able to watch "Fuller House" through any other lens. The trailer for "Fuller House" where they all stand outside reciting their…

Mike, this is why you're one of my favourite critics and writers. You've simultaneously got a very brash, blunt way about you, which strikes me as quintessentially American in a very appealing way (I'm a foreigner)…but you've got a certain humanizing pedantic/persnickety streak. I can't think of any other critic who'd:
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"prime uglies"? That's the kind of dialogue I'm used to hearing in oaters.

Watch out…Laszlo Panaflex!

In fairness, I don't seek out reviews of Westerns, but the headline here is the first time I've ever heard anyone, anywhere, use the word "oater". I've gone in literally about two minutes from "never heard the word 'oater' before" to "okay, apparently there's an 'oater' epidemic in film criticism".

Lincoln was, however, as noble as Usher's character in "She's All That".

Another non-American here: terse, showy masculinity seems quintessentially American to me.

And the quintessential reason I keep getting dragged out of the deli in handcuffs!

Yes.

I know him primarily as Bruno from "The West Wing". He's one of those guys whose notoriety seems to outweigh his actual career output—-I remember feeling like he was really famous even before TWW, despite never having seen him in anything or knowing what else he'd been in.

My nephew has been known to call me that. But in fairness, I'm actually his uncle and I drink a lot of juice, so it's not *as* sketch.