No, the brother-in-law just had his family killed, he's not thinking straight. And it sounds like he's bought into the Nazi propaganda about Jews a bit, too.

I've spent the last few years building up an immunity to spambots.

A.V. Club, I hope you're paying your binge reviewers extra for this, because it's a rough gig.

It'd look a lot like Star Trek without the Prime Directive. And let's just say that Uhura would not be on the bridge.

I've only watched the first two episodes, but it seems to me that in a world war, the Greater Japanese Empire has no chance against the Transatlantic Nazi Reich. At the time this takes place, the Nazis own basically every major industrialized city on the planet outside of Japan proper and the American West Coast. …

I dunno, they've got a wider range than the Nazis did. Sometimes they veer into Mussolini's corporatist economic fascism, and some of them are holding out for a nice Iranian theocracy. It's a pretty big tent.

A reality where baristas and struggling actors can live in Greenwich Village? Terrifying, sure, but I think a plotline involving transdimensional movie reels would be more believable.

Eh. When craft services steals $12 billion in cash out of Peter Jackson's trailer, you can make that comparison.

Lack of creative fulfillment and a frantic workplace do suck, but I'll reserve my sympathy for people who haven't cashed in close to a billion dollars for their troubles.

Your outline of the problems posed by digital archiving is spot on, but optical archiving is in no way better.

Oh thank God, I'm not the first person to think of the Gay Agenda daily planner. Mine's classier though.

Guys. Guys! Coming this Christmas to your local trendy boutique: a chic leatherbound daily planner, embossed in gold with the words "GAY AGENDA" in a dignified serif font.

5:30 — David Bowie works on his George Takei impression.

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Oh look, people advocating for rape as a sanctioned method of punishment, how nice. Eighth amendment, guys?

No, it's the other way around, it's *losing* weight that turned him into a underage sex maniac. And unfortunately I doubt anybody here in The A.V. Club comments is going to be able to gainsay him.

I grew up in Hawaii, and I gotta say, his Hawaiian pidgin in that Johnny Tsunami clip is solid for someone who didn't grow up there. And tons of respect for insisting on authenticity in some random Disney movie. There's a couple places where it fades, but probably just so Mainland audiences can understand him.

against the Guildensterns and Rosencrantzes…

Fortunately, this happened a few years after they invented Google.

True beet story: when I was younger, a friend and I had a small garden that we worked on together. I ended up with several pounds of beets one day, so rather than go shopping, I cooked 'em all up and ate them for dinner.