I remember watching Weird Science (the show) but mostly being frustrated that it was such a cocktease of a program. I watched a lot of late-night cable back then wishing it was pornier (not long after, the internet got faster and my young life changed forever, but at the time...)

I haven't seen The Proposal but I agree that Green Lantern's problems did not include him. I think the entire cast of Adventureland is uniformly great; there's some sort of magic in that movie because it's the only time I can think of that I've enjoyed Kristen Stewart.

And yet those of us who remember keep hoping for it.

I can never really tell what Will Ferrell does and doesn't care about.

Except when he was on Jeff Garlin's podcast. That was magical because he was basically sincere the whole time and as far as I know that's rare.

She did have a drink in her hand. At the risk of stating the obvious, you can have liquor on your breath without being stupid drunk.

She'd probably psyched herself up with booze, sure, but I think it definitely looks like she knew how stupid this stunt was from basically the word jump.  I thought the "blank look" you're talking about was more fear than drunken stupor.

I thought she looked 1) aware of what was going on and 2) mortified.

Never. He's the new Connery.

Agreed.

I made a similar joke after the first or second non-Harmon episode, about actually not being able to count the reasons I should stay anymore.

I thought Michael Shannon seemed physically imposing in Boardwalk Empire...

The bitterest irony of the LL Cool J thing is that he was so poorly integrated.

I'm (still) into it.

Nope, not kidding. Thank you for verifying though, I found that quite satisfying.

I like that song, dammit.

Actually, I like Brad Paisley roughly 80% of the time. It's just that when he misses, he really whiffs it.

This may be unfair to Trace Adkins, but to be honest I initially thought he ad-libbed that dumb thing at the end because HE didn't quite get the metaphor and wasn't confident enough in it to just let it be.


I like Blake Shelton some and I think Miranda Lambert's the bee's knees--love that she actually sounds like a country singer, unlike Carrie Underwood (for example). I find Sugarland annoying, but I can't quite put my finger on why. Eric Church & Luke Bryan end up lost in that huge mess of 20-something handsome cowboy types who all went to the same college (Belmont University, maybe) and were probably all in the same frat. They all run together in my brain.

Speaking of country musicians that do well with a metaphor--particularly Garth & The Dance.

I didn't think it was "Don't trust Carl with a gun," more like "Hey Rick, best look to your kid or you'll have a total sociopath on your hands." Basically a version of what Herschel's been doing all season (including/especially: "Hey Rick, best stop acting crazy or we won't see you as fit to lead us").

Trace Adkins got really really close with "She Thinks We're Just Fishing" but then at the end he's all "It wasn't just fishing! It was father-daughter bonding! It's my attempt at a metaphor, y'see!"