Eh, you're right, I re-read my post, and I see my intent was unclear. Was probably typing too fast. But yeah, I didn't mean to refer to the people in the booth with her (which, in fairness, I think I did make clear in my other comments within this thread). Anyway, sorry for the snark.

I completely agree with you, but we are fighting a losing battle on this one it seems.

I like your righteous sarcasm, but it's misguided. I was referring to my impression that the podcast "audience" was giving her a pass (aka people here on Podmass and on the Earwolf boards), not the hosts/other guests.

I think they are, and I don't entirely agree when podacsters get all shirty about how their show is "free," and therefore above criticism. Yeah, it's free, but it can also be a huge boon for your career, leading to things like TV shows that make you a lot of money. It's not like all podcasters just do them out of…

Yeah you're probably right. I don't really mean "given a pass" in a "she should do more work to EARN it" kind of way, but I get your point.

We can agree that Hader sucked. What a disappointment that was. Interrupting a Bob Ducca list, not playing along with any bits, checking his cell phone the whole time. Ugh.

Clearly if you think she's great, she's not getting a massive pass from you. To my mind, when she's on, it's frequently cringey, whether she's missing cues from Scott or PFT, not getting/derailing a bit, or awkwardly trying to be "funny" by yelling random stuff, and yet the reactions to her episodes are always "she's…

I totally agree with this on general principle, and I feel fairly sure there are plenty of people on here who just genuinely find Jacobs hilarious. But isn't it also at least possible that external factors can influence someone's opinion? Sometimes without their knowledge?

Honestly, I sort of agree. Although I've had the opposite reaction in that I've liked her episodes more as she's continued. And I love PFT and Wompler. I respect Jacobs for being a celeb guest/non improv comic and still essentially doing a character, but she's nowhere near as good as it as PFT (or most others), and…

Hey, he's just the most famous one. Lots of grown man-person film directors (usually those who started in music videos) have dumb fake names. Benny Boom, Oliver Megaton… and those are just the ones where they changed their last names to an explosion.

I think people might object to the callous tone? Judge as you may, for many dog owners, that statement is not far off from wondering "oh, did her kid finally die to free up her schedule?"

Whedon was the first name I thought of when I saw this list, can't believe none of his stuff got mentioned (I thought Whedon was a given in any AV Club list?).

Er… you're wrong. The credits were a fairly straight Felicity parody, as is the G.G. Amblin/J.J. Abrams joke. The entire premise of Felicity was that she's in college and is choosing between two guys.

Mike D'Angelo likes a movie less than most other critics?!? Surely you must be joking?

Honestly, other than the ones Black Math and Ball & Biscuit, no solos stand out to me.

It was a big deal at the time because Pitchfork had just become the top indie music site and this was the next major indie crossover album. Mainstream publications were falling over themselves to call it a perfect masterpiece. So when Pitchfork dropped a 6.9 (which is very low for them — I'd say 80 percent of what…

You seem extremely into guitar solos.

Live? Sure. With his other bands? Yep. On the first three Stripes albums, which were more stripped down garage rock affairs with the occasional blues homage? Not so much. I can't think of a single solo on White Blood Cells. He did more later, but in describing the Stripes sound to someone who wasn't familiar, I'd…

I also hadn't seen that, and wow, it was awesome. My other favorite TV appearance of theirs was their last night on a week-long Conan residency in 2003, playing Let's Build A Home. Jack playing slide guitar on Conan's desk = iconic moment. http://vimeo.com/19824245

Be Here Now got good reviews for a short while because everyone was so excited for the follow up to (What's The Story?) Morning Glory. Then everyone realized it sucked and it became one of the most returned records of all time (to this day, just about any store that sells used CDs is bound to have a copy or ten).