I think Beck Bennett and Mikey Day split duties trying to fulfill that “leading man” role (vacated most recently by Taran Killam).

Yeah, that’s exactly right. I had to look at Wikipedia’s timeline to confirm. Nasim Pedrad was added in 2010, Vanessa Bayer was added in 2011, and Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong, and Aidy Bryant were added in 2013. I think that was the year I turned to my wife and said, “Wow, the female cast members are carrying this…

He appears to have the spine of a jellyfish.

This feels like overthinking it. Adults shouldn’t need to actively avoid anyone, at least not to the extent that you need a plan (or “hacks”) for it. You get out of talking to someone by talking to literally any other person.

- Drink 1-2 glasses of wine beforehand, like literally at the closest bar to your gate. Pee as soon as you board the plane before you’re required to be buckled in.

No joke. I don’t go for organized religion myself, but “fuck church” was neither the substance nor the tone of his remark. I don’t know whether to write the headline off as a clickbait-y attempt to grab a few more eyeballs for what is at this point (two days later) a stale story or as the author hardcore projecting…

Anticipating — and starting to see — the flurry of commenters saying something to the effect of, “My finances are simple, and my relationships are straightforward, so it’s cool that I did it myself!”

Sansa has been one of my favorite characters this season, because she’s grown up and grown into a fearsome and clever player. So when she brushes aside The Hound’s observation that she would have avoided her terrible times with Littlefinger and Ramsay Bolton if she had escaped with him from King’s Landing with a…

In February 2018, the city of New York’s Environmental Protection department unveiled a program where citizens can file a complaint against idling trucks and buses.

No, it isn’t.

I think they could have easily turned him back to normal with another time jump or via a half-dozen other ways. Not “fixing” him just created a gag that overstayed its welcome by about two hours. Sort of like if they had cracked a joke about Cap’s ass in every single scene. They did the same sort of thing at the end…

And finally, Tony. I don’t mind Tony dying, it’s the way he died and how his character works in this movie that I mind. He meets his father, who told him not to let work get in the way of personal life, then he goes and dies for his Avengers “work” and leaves his wife and daughter.

Really? I hated that. At first, it was like, “Oh, haha. That’s a funny sight gag. Didn’t see that one coming...”

Oof. Yeah, that was bad. Whenever, in the course of a superhero movie, you have the heroes blatantly posing for a “team shot,” it tends to take the audience right out of it, and whenever it’s blatantly thematic (in this case, yeah, “grrrl power!”), it’s doubly awkward. It’s like, “Okay, you know you can pose for Hot…

I think what annoyed me about the use of time travel in Endgame was that, typically, when a movie employs time travel in a way that creates a plot hole or narrative inconsistency, it’s because the writers are oversimplifying the device so that the audience can appreciate the premise without getting bogged down in the…

Ew. Mark-Paul Gosselaar went full Haley Joel Osment on us....

Yeah, I agree with that one. It’s a largely forgettable movie, but it does get a gold star for making the most of a character concept that could very easily have come across as campy and hokey-looking. But “not looking ridiculous” isn’t really the same as “great,” and First Avenger should be lower. So should…

That man does love him some incest...

Yeah, I mean, it’s entirely possible that Omid’s a woman, that he or she sincerely believes that he/she has the moral high ground (however misdirected), and/or that there’s some legitimate story of victimization underlying all of this, but realistically — no, nope, nuh-uh — it’s much, much more likely that this is…

First, “don’t hate the player, hate the game” is one of those not-quite-clever sayings that needs to die in a fire, right next to “they hate us ‘cause they ain’t us” and “I didn’t come here to make friends” and “if you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best.” It belongs on a revolving bumper…