Anyone else care to try "Crime Scene Scenarios" for 500?

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lesser_celery and I are still watching Millennium.

This latest episode is guest-starring Charles Nelson Reilly.

I feel like the two hemispheres of my brain just collided.

"He didn't just buy the magazines. He read the story. And he liked it."

I've got a bit of a headache, but it's very funny. How did the Scientologists not sue them into the next millennium?

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Glad you're liking it!

I don't remember that episode--I'm tempted to ask my friend E. about it, cos she used to love that show when we were both living in Chicago and it was on the air, but I'm not sure it's something she'd like to think about right now.

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I don't remember that episode

It's possibly indescribable—it's at once a puncturingly snarky sendup of the whole pitch of the show, both the serial killers of Season One and the increasingly apocalyptic freakiness of Season Two, and a surprisingly humane questioning of what it really means to believe: in God, in self-help, in the millennium. Mostly narrated by Charles Nelson Reilly's Jose Chung, with additional voiceovers from Frank Black and a random Selfosophist who really, really can't write. Full of shrugging, overlapping retellings and thinly veiled ripoffs of reality. Also, electrocution. There are ways in which the plot doesn't make sense at all, but it doesn't really matter.