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While watching an episode of Sons of Anarchy:

Some character on the show: You know Whistler, right?

Me: No, but I know Whistler’s mother!

Manfred: [Silence]

Me: Come ON! That joke works on TWO LEVELS.

I have just laughed and laughed at this skit. Is it weird that I have a crush on Bill Hader’s bone structure?

UhhhL Originally this was a clip of the Stefon skit. Now it’s the whole episode. Huh?

I swear to you, this show is going to disappear and everyone will wonder where it went once it’s gone. Remember Arrested Development? Well, I’m not going to say it’s that good, but I am going to say it’s damn good and would you look at that scene with the raindrops? I don’t care what you like to laugh at; that shit is straight up beautiful.

Please go watch the entire first season for free. You will laugh, I promise. And if you don’t? I can guarantee that means you are dead. Clinically.

• Spaced is a whopping eleven years old but is still so wonderful because it stars Simon Pegg (if he and I bred, our children would have, basically, the piggiest noses ever) and Jessica Hynes (née Stevenson), both of whom I just want to HUG UNTIL WE PASS OUT. The show’s about two Brits who are having trouble finding a flat to rent, so they pose as a couple to get a sweet deal and, naturally, hijinks ensue. Pegg’s character is a comic-book artist/skateboard nerd and Hynes’ character is a chatty writer type with no real direction. Permit me an aside to mention — because it’s so rare to see on American television — that she is a woman of physical substance with an ass and a little bit of a belly, but she’s not presented as this grotesque asexual entity. Okay, I better bite my tongue. I’m only a few episodes in. I really don’t know what the series holds in that or any other regard. But I’m excited to see the show’s story arcs unfold, in its fast talkin’, smokin’ and drinkin’ and cussin’ way.

Here’s a clip of some typical fast-clip comedy from the second episode where the “couple” decides to throw a housewarming party:

• And now for some good old-fashioned American vulgarity!

Jen tweeted a week or two ago about Archer, Adam Reed’s new animated spy spoof on FX, and it reminded me that it was a show I’d seen a preview of while at my parents’ house that I really had wanted to check out. Which I promptly did. And promptly loved. The wordplay is pretty fine, the comedy is robust, the animation is quite nice to look at, and the voice acting is so good it made me pee a little. I mean, seriously: H. Jon Benjamin, Jessica Walter, Judy Greer, Chris Parnell, and Aisha Tyler every episode, plus awesome guest stars such as Thomas Lennon and Jeffrey Tambor. I watched all five current episodes twice in two days, that’s how hard this show ruled.

Here’s a clip from the fourth episode, “Diversity Hire”:

All the episodes of both these shows are free on Hulu right now. (Spaced and Archer.) I cannot stress how awesome this is. Please join me in sincere appreciation of good television, rare as it is, and GO FORTH AND WATCH VERILY.

I lol’ed at the Helen Keller part. Hard.

HT: Sigalicious

Watch before they pull it!

Relatedly, this is the twentieth Treehouse of Horror. Oh. My.

Suave as a motherfucker and one hell of a manager. I have decided to start taking my management cues from him. Which doesn’t bode well for anybody, really, but it means shit will get done.

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DUDE! At 2:53:

Thanks to my questionable decisions last night, I overslept and missed Soup Sunday, which I had been looking forward to for a few days. Dang it.

The whole day wasn’t a bust, though. I spent the evening in great company, watching the Oscars and laughing my ass off. Am I just some kind of commie, homo-loving son of a gun or was the show particularly funny this year?

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