"It was about the awkwardness of bringing home a boyfriend during the
holidays, and what's more awkward than bring home your first gay
partner?"

"Mob City
understands the surface of detective stories, but it forgets that Sam
Spade, Jake Gittes, and Eddie Valiant all had clear goals to pursue and
ironclad mysteries to unravel"

Yeah, Bones is still an atheist. Because she's an incomplete robot person! Ha ha how we laugh at her ways!

If you were a countryman of Steve Coogan, your problems would be halved.

It is what it is.

AIUI the show was just a filmed version of their radio show, basically - Rob and Doug talking and taking calls. It wasn't a 'reality show', it wouldn't have needed the kind of footage you describe.

not that I want SNN to succeed, but what the hell are they thinking? cancelling the only show they have with ratings of more than 'two people who can't find the remote' because 'it's too expensive to edit'? how expensive is it to edit and release *all that other crap you show 24x7 and nobody at all watches*, SNN?

Haven't you seen Canadian cable? It's basically American cable plus some Canadian news and sports channels.

OK, let me rephrase: random to anyone who doesn't stalk the avclub IT department ;)

"Sure, there's all kinds of smarmy things floating around the Internet,
but it's pretty unlikely a site like the A/V Club is going to be host to
anything harmful, even through third-party scripting."

Thanks for the egg-sucking lesson, but I know what a CDN is, ta. decider.com is not a well-known outsourced CDN, and 'private' CDNs are usually named such that they're obviously related to the site they're acting as a CDN for. In either case I'd expect simply visiting 'http://www.decider.com' to give me some useful…

Thanks! Gee, having to allow scripts from a completely random third-party domain about which no useful information appears to be available anywhere sure bumps up my confidence, nice job AV Club.

None of the pictures load for me and I really don't feel like playing Noscript Bingo with a bunch of shady clicktracking networks to figure out which one I need to allow for them to show up. Currently I'm blocking scorecardresearch.com, quantserve.com, decider.com, chartbeat.com and outbrain.com . Which one of these…

Core Concept: somewhat amazingly, "that plane" is a real thing which has been really used in real life with real people: