In the first of two (count ’em, two!) new Parks And Recreation episodes airing this Thursday, friend of The A.V. Club (and once and future Webby host) Patton Oswalt joins in the proud Pawnee tradition of disrupting progress by speaking a steady stream of nonsense. Specifically, nonsense pertaining ...

1. Louie’s wasted afternoon: Louie, “Dogpound” (2010)It isn’t easy to visually replicate the singular, internal experience of being high, which is why television and movies usually default to a handful of tropes: psychedelic imagery, weird camera angles and cuts, and often, overblown histrionics and hilariously off-base sequences like ...

Downton Abbey’s entire third season has already aired in the U.K., so thanks to my nefarious ways, I was able to sit down and watch the whole thing in a marathon session. (If anyone from the RIAA is reading this, I purchased a plane ticket and flew to ...