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Another great one nobody has mentioned so far is Mitchell Liesen's Easy Living (which is a terrific movie despite screenwriter Preston Sturges's insistence that it wasn't). It would be impossible for a human to be more charming than Jean Arthur is in that movie.

To be fair to PhilInterrupted, Mulligan needs no introduction.

Yeah. It's the good kind of catchy!

I like musicals in general, but I really hated Lin-Manuel Miranda's previous show In the Heights. But Hamilton is so terrific. Every single song, with no exceptions. It's astonishing how consistent it is.

Monster's Holiday by Bobby "Boris" Pickett. I guarantee this is more fun now - when it's a weird, obscure Monster Mash offshoot - than it was at the time, when it was a desperate last cash grab of a dying trend.

"Iuzzini, much toned down from his Just Desserts days"

And Kristen Bell as Audrey, maybe?

Yeah, Texas was bad. But the season after that was Kristen and Brooke and Sheldon and all that. That was mostly a good one, except for the return of Josie (and the oddly-paced Iron Chef-esque finale).

Oh, that's great! I didn't know she was coming back. I was hoping she'd show up if they ever did another All-Star season.

Don't forget Heather and Sarah's third wheel - Lindsay, the Belle of the Ball.

I liked Elia pretty well too.

Gail is the best. She's one of my all-time top celebrity crushes (Note: So is Stephanie)

It premieres this Wednesday!

Also a former Disney Channel star (she was the dumb white friend on That's So Raven).

Erik, have you read the graphic novel? If so, what did you think of it? You acknowledge its existence, but you didn't say anything about it's quality.

I really, really loved Thank You For Smoking, although I haven't seen it since shortly after it came out, so it's entirely possible that it isn't as good as I remembered.

Yeah. And we'll see what he does next - it still isn't too late, I don't think. I like all of those first four movies to varying degrees.

When you put it that way, yeah - it's intriguing.

Labor Day was before Men, Women, & Children though. That was his first real stinker. I guess you could argue that one misbegotten mess seemed like an aberration while two seemed like a trend, so Men, Women, & Children was the point when he lost credibility.

If Apatow made a Christopher Guest-style movie, he'd feel compelled to include every alternate riff, and the movie would be 7 1/2 hours long.