The "Nobody Likes Us" Guys are alive and well and thriving on the internet. The gelled-back bangs! The pouts! The slouches! You know these guys. They might be in the room with you right now.

The black-and-white sketches are always the most important. MY PEN. MY PEN. MY PEN. MY PEN.

Proposed: that "Can you believe I work at a bank?" is the most perfect opening line to any Kids in the Hall sketch ever written, in this life or the next.

"Santa, please! We don't know if we want to have children!"

I was having an argument with someone who is Wrong the other day about which Kid in the Hall is the most indispensable (BRUCE, UNQUESTIONABLY) and we came down hard on different sides of the Kevin fence. Is every single Kid in the Hall a precious gem forged in the fire-petals of Heaven? Of course. Will I ever achieve over the course of my lifetime even one-sixteenth of the greatness of one of the less…

The Kids in the Hall had more respect for the art of drag than anyone else in the game. When they were women, they were women for a reason, not just because they thought it was funny for guys to wear hose.

Surely you won't hold it against me that I'm a mere day (and several months) off?

"In America, there are 51 states. Or maybe it's 80 by now. Does England count? I'm not quite sure."

"Running free...running free...running [I'll let you wait until after the jump]."

(IT WAS THE EIGHTIES.)

"Butch? I've been thinking. Maybe Smitty's right about us. Maybe we are shallow." As always, some thoughts: 1. This is why the Kids were, and are, undeniable. In the hands of lesser men, this would not be a loving, affectionate, insider-y tweak at Canadian gay (stairwell) culture; it would be cringe-inducing gay drag. Not so the Kids. It helps that Scott Thompson was gay, of course, but the characterization here is nuanced and perfect. Dave Foley's barely-conscious…

The return of the Secretaries in: "Is He?" Some stray observations: 1. Can you believe we've been running Kids in the Hall Monday on and off for six months now and this is only the second Secretaries sketch we've done yet? 2. Bruce McCullough had enchanting calves. 3. There are so many wonderful little details to love here, Scott Thompson's chunky necklace chief among them. These guys treated drag with respect. There's a lot of love for the…

Some stray thoughts: 1. I would like a businessman for a pet, but I would not like to take very good care of him. 2. It does not seem quite fair to show 15-second ads before a 2-minute video. I cheerfully endure proportionately justifiable commercials while watching a full-length episode of television, but upon my Sam, it seems a little hard to have to sit through ads nearly 1/4 of the length of the clip…

My greatest regret in life is that, as a young Canadian child, I never got to appear in a Kids in the Hall sketch wearing a party hat. And when I see this, the pain is sharper than ever.

However, being a man seems much, much worse.

Come for the dessert plate, stay for the wigs and the vests.

The magic of "Head Crusher" is timeless, but Mark McKinney's decision to target bankers in this episode is highly relevant to today's discourse about the excesses of capitalism. As Zizek says...