The Burning Gentleman

I listened to this episode a couple days ago, and it was my first "U Talkin' U2 to Me" (PFT's my gateway guest, apparently). I'm not sure why I didn't start listening sooner - maybe because I'm just a casual U2 fan, although I can't believe I'd expect it to actually be a "comprehensive and encyclopedic compendium of all things U2." I see why this show would be annoying for anyone who goes in expecting it to be that, but why would that person finish an episode? It's ridiculously satisfying to listen to the Scotts screw around for one-two hours. The frustration with resetting to the same time period over and over is hilarious, but the moment that really broke me is this one, at 1:28:50. I'll try to recapture it in quotes: Scott: So, Paul, what - PFT: Huh? Scott: So "Pop" comes out and - PFT: Who? Scott: You're-you're not in - PFT: Yeah? Scott: You're not into it, and then I remember - PFT: No? Scott: I remember you - PFT: Uh huh? Scott: Oh my god! By the way, something clicked in my brain about five minutes ago where I have no patience for this show anymore. Paul: It's because people are doing to you what you do to people? That's when I lost it and had to pause because I was laughing over stuff. I'm glad I was home at the time. I've listened to every episode now, and even though I'd heard of U2 before, this podcast makes me feel like I've heard of them all over again.

Sad though it is that this is the finale (hopefully season finale rather than series finale), it's great to also have Review around on Thursdays. I probably would have checked the show out even if it didn't star the great Andy Daly, because it has a really fun premise, but it's become surprisingly poignant in addition to absurdly hilarious. Anyway, back to The Andy Daly Purple Picasso Project (that's it, right?): This was a terrific capper to a remarkable eight-episode run - the Irish accents (plus whatever Aukerman was doing) were as majestic as the Emerald Isle itself!

My 2014 may have already peaked. This thing is AMAZING!

And a new record for How Did This Get Made? confusion has been set. I had no idea that this movie would lead to so much bafflement that was so delightful to listen to. I did miss June, but at least there were a couple "June moments" to be heard.

Man, Howard is really good at "Jaws is better!"

By the way - if I may say that as the first words of a post - I thought Drake was fine on SNL. I don't know his music, though (or Degrassi); my world isn't music, it's movies. That's actually why I didn't think I'd like this podcast, because I thought it was actually about music. Then I found out it wasn't about the charts at all, but about the people, and the laughter!

I like that they're doing Mortal Kombat. I would like a Mortal Kombat: Annihilation even more, because that one's HORRIBLE.

I didn't really know the song, so I believed Kulap that it's "high," not "hide." "High" is better too, right? I am so glad I started listening to this show. I listened to my first one about a week and a half ago, I've listened to A LOT since, and it is a blast (as you all know, of course)!

If it takes a PFT character feeding Scott the opportunity to bust out a "FRIDAY NIGHT LIIIIIIIIIGHTS!" it's still worth it. That was gold.

I love that Paul F. expanded a silly riff in a Best Of episode ("sireens") into this JW character.

I didn't know Harmon had anything to do with Monster House at any point. But...I like that movie. I mean, I don't know, the version in Harmon's head may have been way better, but I like the final product.

People, we are now in a Post-Jack Frost Second Opinions world, and I do not know how to feel. Seriously, though, those were amazing. You know what else was amazing? Zouks with the Genosha pull!

The rest of the episode was great fun as well.

I'm listening to this episode right now, my first "Who Charted?," and PFT's Captain Phillips made me laugh so hard I became concerned for my life. Maybe it's weird to bump this thread up just to say that, but...I wanted to.

As someone who was not such a big fan of Horatio on SNL, I didn't expect him to become a CBB favorite, but I'm glad he has. Each CBB appearance of his has been better than the last, I think, and I do enjoy this new tradition of starting off the year with a Schwartz/Sanz team-up..

I do think the top three will be "Halfway to China," "Marissa Wompler's Birthday Pool Party Live," and "Time Bobby 2" - whatever the order - but I don't want to set myself up for disappointment if it's not.

First, I am shocked and appalled that Scott and Paul forgot that Garry and Gilly met in "Friends Without Words" - but hey, with as tumultuous a relationship as those two have had, it can all blur together. Second, the PFT off-mic laugh is always a delight, as we all know, but to me never more so than in "Garry Unmarried." And there's so much of it! ("What's your book?" "How to Get Byyyy" is one of the best moments of the year.) Third, I forgot how phenomenal that Caine/Connery bit was, and I did NOT know that Pegg and Frost switched impressions midway through, which makes it all the more impressive.

A top 15? A four-part best-of? This is so indulgent and such a great gift. I agree that it's crazy that "A Peanut in the Rain" din't make it into the top 10 - that and "Garry Unmarried" were in mine, but "Garry Unmarried" was the better Garry/Gilly show, and I assume/hope that that one did make it. (By the way, I'm glad someone mentioned that "Judge Judy and executioner" was a Simpsons - and then Hot Fuzz - quote. For the life of me, I can't remember which Simpsons episode it's in, though.)

Fun episode of Bing Bong Comedy. Kulap was delightful (makes me think I should listen to Who Charted?), and to me this is definitely Horatio's best appearance so far. I especially liked Aaron Neville asking two unrelated questions during WYR, the only two he cared about. And what a run CBB (Comedy Bing Bong) has had lately with the tremendous musical talent - Regina Crisp, Victor Diamond, Aaron Neville. Most wonderful time of the year indeed.

I didn't love this episode, but it actually isn't because I wanted another visit to Suicide House. I mean, I'm sure I'd have enjoyed htat, and the Treehouse of Horror comparison is a pretty good one (I know that, although I haven't loved a Treehouse of Horror in several years, I'd be disappointed if they had ever skipped a year), I like that this year's Comedy Fang Fang was something different.

I'm listening to the show right now, and I had to pause after the Lions for Lambs reference. That's the best pull I've heard n a while. I find Rust's character-breaking giggling endearing every time.

It's charming/terrifying!

I found Pete funny-annoying (not, you know, annoying) in this episode, as I do on Doug Loves Movies, but that Chelsea Peretti clip is fantastic. It reminds me of my favorite moment in F&P3, when she loses it describing wondering what would happen if she snapped on Scott and killed Kulap.

I remember Bill Hader saying that, before his first Vincent Price holiday special sketch on SNL, Lorne said to him, "Why now?" meaning, "Vincent Price? In 2005?" That's what I thought about PFT doing Alan Thicke in 2013 - why now? I'd forgotten about Robin, though, so there you go (I can't keep up with these kids and their crazy music). It wasn't a dead-on impression, it was less accurate than Garry Marshall or Werner Herzog. a less formed character than either of those...but I still really enjoyed it, and the whole episode.