Yep. The mentions of the parallel timeline of ROTS are what made this episode powerful. The idea that storytelling only works if we do not already know some things that are going to happen is absolutely ludicrous. I’d argue that many of the greatest stories in Western civilization, from the Iliad to Shakespeare’s…

Everyone knows that Ponda Baba got his arm cut off in Mos Eisley, but this show presupposes, “what if he didn’t?”

Paris Gellar in Gilmore Girls (who, granted, is the foil of a brunette smart girl).

I was pretty surprised you guys didn’t get a single penalty out of the like ten 50/50 handballs Seattle had in the box, but on the other hand, the Sounders were absolutely the better team last time. LAFC looked flummoxed by the idea of a team that was organized enough to stand up to them on defense and then also…

Glorious. 

Hilarious.

Taking the overlords to the guillotine also has a fairly limited number of dress codes:

I feel like it’s already on the way out (or, at least, my college students don’t say it as often as they did half a decade ago).

I honestly didn’t think the Chiefs D was that bad. It’s the Packers. They’re gonna score. They’ve scored 27+ against everyone they’ve played from outside their division (and they nevertheless went 3-0 in those games within their division). Don’t get me wrong—the Chiefs D wasn’t good—but they were good enough to give…

Yeah, I was kind of amazed he put his teammate on blast so publicly. On the other hand, it was a very, very bad foul.

I enjoyed the article, but I still don’t agree with the premise of your second paragraph. Single-elimination playoffs make the regular season matter a ton more, and they are a huge benefit to the team that gets to host. The old format, which punished the better team with a much more brutal travel schedule and put…

I was wondering if you guys would post about that one. When I watched it live, I kinda wished that instead of the TD celebration I could have watched the people in the production truck celebrating the skycam shot.

Yeah, I wish it were like 100 years ago when a steady diet of Henry James novels ensured that rich people were totally benevolent.

Chiefs-Chargers games would certainly be a lot more intense if the teams shared the same state (well, in addition to the state of perpetual disappointment that they already share).

Given that the next banner over is for a WNBA team (with retired jerseys for two women), misogyny seems like a reach.

There are society matrons in Edith Wharton novels who are less worked up about obscure codes of behavior.

I hear what you’re saying, although I will say in Minnesota guy’s defense that 32 years is a long time without any championship at all in a four-team city.

Honestly, ever since they grew up a little, the South Park people are pretty spot-on most of the time.

The Chiefs still control their own destiny for home field. Not saying that it’s at all likely, but if the Chiefs win out, they’re the 1 seed.

We had a band at our wedding. It was a friend’s band, so they cut us a deal. They played some of their stuff and some stuff we requested. We were looking for pleasantly strummy background music more than club bangers or chicken dances, so it worked for us.