Liz Wheeler reminds me of Cecily Strong’s “Girl You Met at a Party But Wish You Hadn’t” character.

Having read the book, Allen does make a good case for his innocence, mostly by reiterating stuff that was already in the public record. Bare minimum (and he’s not the first to say this), I agree with him that it’s objectively impossible to honestly arrive at the level of certainty of his guilt that so many (on here…

I didn’t state that Bernie should drop out, but rather that it seems weird to criticize people for thinking that he should drop out when these a pandemic going on and he doesn’t have a chance at victory.

Except her real quote makes it clear she wasn’t surprised that the people she knew weren’t representative of the whole country.

If you don’t cancel Larry David RIGHT THIS MOMENT then you’re a bigger monster than Hitler. 

Too bad she didn’t get a chance to slap Trump in the face.  “You knew! You knew! And you let people go out there anyway!”

Unfunny people can be AV Club writers.

Not blow it out of proportion? Are you freakin’ kidding me? This is the AV Club! We all have to get together and furiously hate this person forever! If you don’t, that’s rape! You are literally raping women right now if you’re not expressing outrage at Larry David.

“Then again, he also says that he thinks Bernie Sanders should drop out of the primaries and hand the Democratic nomination to Joe Biden, which is also not going to be an especially popular position”

Seth Rogen basically did that with the Neighbors sequel. “Girls like to drink and smoke be gross too”

That would make every single thing Shannon Elizabeth has been in “problematic” because she never seems to know that there’s a camera there. Or that she’s supposed to be doing anything.

Not clicking that video: if I want woke-in-hindsight reappraisals of what’s problematic in old movies, I’ll choose anybody but chunky white beardy dudes to hear it from.

The religious right and the woke left are very much opposed to the naked female form.  Remember when John Ashcroft covered up the immodest lady justice statute?  Motherfucker was woke before that was even a thing.

I mean, it’s blurry from all sides. I’ve heard people use the verb “Metoo’d” to describe someone being reprimanded for HR-unfriendly behavior.

Right, and the scene in Blockers where John Cena had to “chug” a beer through a beer bong inserted into his rectum was the height of sophistication.

I’m...really not sure how American Pie is “#problematic.”

No matter how liberal America gets it will always bend towards puritanism whenever possible.

massive cultural shifts such as the #MeToo movement have occurred in those intervening years, it seems insane that anyone would attempt to produce a lewd teen sex comedy in a franchise that has always appealed to the basest desires of teen boys

Indeed. :)

I’ll always remember the part of Ebert’s review of RotJ where he singles out the scene of the Rancor’s death and its owner/trainer sobbing. I’m paraphrasing here, but it’s “Even in a galaxy far far away, everybody is loved by somebody.”