Kickpuncher

Inspired by this year's countdown - As an off-shoot of this list, how about Scott's frequently used references? - The final episode of MASH - The guy who laughs at the surfer wiping out in the song "Wipeout" - The greedy writers of "Happy Birthday", those old spinsters Mildred and Patty Hill (I'd normally call this a PFT reference, but Scott recently used it on a CBB without Paul) - The Star Wars cantina song ...

"I am such a man" and "notoriously stingy in their praise for foodstuffs" are such perfectly worded punchlines that I almost can't believe he comes up with this stuff on the fly. Listening to this in the car was fun because I was free to laugh like a complete maniac, particularly at the two above lines plus the entire Tom Leykis part and Scott saying "It's like the word 'niggardly'".

Kulap is right, coming hot out of the break with the next chart theme works well. Ku's chart was so sweet, my Grinch-sized heart grew two sizes.

Whoa.

Just looked at his IMDB. Among large roles, that's about right. Off the top of my head, I would have said he's been really inactive during that time, but he's actually been steadily churning out a mix of flops, small roles, and completely forgettable movies. I guess he's always got that Sex and the City money to fall back on.

Howard's thoughts on this were a worthy follow-up to the classic "Don't rape somebody because I can't talk".

One of my favorite live episodes.

Yep, pretty sure he said 4 parts, Monday and Thursday this week and next.

Oh man, that's approaching the top of my podcast queue, now I'm looking forward to it even more. Dead Authors is really good overall. I listened to one of the early episodes with Scott as Ben Franklin, then sort of gave up on it, largely because a lot of the guests were people I wasn't really familiar with, but they've had one hell of a run of guests in the last two months or so.

Countdown schmountdown, we're burying the lede here - MY WIFE IS BACK! I haven't been this happy since my marriage underwent a trial separation and then my spouse returned. If only that were literally true! Until the closing song (which I certainly won't complain about hearing again), it looked like the episode was going to end on one of my favorite moments of the year - "Is it the N word? ... Yes-and!"

"Produced by Diane Raffill"

I find it hard to get too worked up about any of this, even if I do agree with most of Matt's general premise. In this era, it's really not hard to find stuff you'll like if you're willing to put in a little effort. I appreciate that it was balanced with recommendations, because otherwise it's just shooting at easy targets and not really helping anyone (other than setting up one funny scene). Regarding Big Bang Theory, everyone knows it's mediocre (at best) mass-appeal crap. The only significant award it wins is Jim Parsons winning multiple Emmys. The show itself has never won Best Comedy at the Emmys or the Golden Globes (it does get nominated, which is ridiculous) and I don't ever remember seeing it on a reputable critic's top ten list. I almost feel like Matt was getting that mixed up with Modern Family, which wins awards by the bucketful every year. Now excuse me while I go watch an awesome French drama/horror show that probably gets fewer than 100,000 viewers which I found because a bunch of TV critics gushed over it.

Always happy to see the 'Thday Boys on Earwolf. You might even say that three-sevenths of my favorites are back. Great episode. The opening and closing scenes were especially good.

I have no interest in starting a website, but I almost want to sign up for SquareSpace just so I can use OFFER CODE BARKSY. On a related note, if anyone does start a SquareSpace shop with some cool Barksy merch, I will absolutely buy something. Jake, I'm glad you let the cat out of the bag about this being recorded last week, otherwise I would have been crushed that you went with #FogelFans instead of #Fogelnestphiles.

New track! https://howardkremer.bandcamp.com/track/rudolph-chewed-off Also, good news for HK/DBS fans, Bandcamp now has an app which lets you stream tracks you've bought there, including retroactively (although it's not showing the first HAS in my collection, so maybe there's a limit to how far back that goes).

I'm just asking questions.

She probably just said that so that Kyle's "I'm Alone" Christmas song would be more believable and he'd sell more albums.

But that doesn't explain why the main posed photo of the hosts and guests would be missing someone.

She was definitely there live, because they've had people phone/Skype in before and it's nowhere near that good quality. I noticed that she was missing, too. My best guess is that she's undergoing some sort of physical transformation in preparation for her lead role in Nundercover, and doesn't want to spoil it before the first publicity stills are released.

They've done it a few times with "Jeremy Piven", but I don't really know the origin of it.

"...then I did 5 1/2 as an infantryman...ooorrr - no, just a man." Good one.

Highlights: - Characterization of Taryn Manning casting goal as "a slightly more drugged out Bijou Phillips" - Jason's description of the mother as "a horrible, horrible monster person" - "I tricked you. They're all true."

Great episode. I'm glad that Ron got the "Jane Doe" pun. The couple in that story sounds like a couple of Goofy Roofers to me.

That's just a fluke of him being listed as a guest on every single episode of a show that he co-hosts. I had a dream last night where I met Sylvester Stallone and had to resist the urge to ask him about his brother's appearance on this show.