I know SNL is supposed to have notoriously bad sound, but with that caveat at least two of the members do not sound like confident singers on their own. The same two appeared to get the 'deer-in-the-headlights' look when it was their turn at a solo.

Edit, because apparently hyperlinks don't show up any differently than regular text under the NuDisqus Regime:

What's ironic here? I thought the canonical AS-viewer was a stoner. You know who else are stoners? Libruls!

Sucker! All the cool kids have moved on to FreeBSD!

Ironically, many of these comments seem like they belong on a different sort of Tumblr - the kind where you spout shit about social justice but it doesn't actually matter whether or how well you've thought it through - the kind where you get points for talking about it, because you're being brave on Tumblr.

Hint: you're missing a subtle, punny restatement of an A.V. Club meme that, in it's original form, is probably a bannable offense under a recent iteration of the commentariat rules. Don't worry about missing it, though: the original is also sexist and off-putting.

Apparently no one in the writer's room has ever experienced a tornado. Or maybe they just don't care. There's no way that a siren blares with a blue, cloudless sky. And if you head to your basement you don't stand in the middle of the tallest, most open room.

I tried watching this on my DVR, but apparently the signal strength was poor enough that it died 10 minutes in (I don't have cable, and my DVR is a Linux PC). I would have tried to find it online, but by that point it already seemed like it was floundering for a story. So I didn't keep watching it.

This? Blasphemy. Pure blasphemy.

So, like late-'90s Christina Ricci? I mean, that sounds fairly perverse, but she was probably legal then…

Yeah. Right. I mean, when I talk about their relationship, that's just one element of it. Lately they've been doing a bit more with her research, but it should probably be insulting that its mostly variants of plying monkeys with addictive substances - the show treats it as 'joke' science, and most often it involves…

I guess that's a bit outside the range of the specific criticism I was trying to circumscribe, but I agree. When she was introduced she was supposed to be a genius. At this point, her 'research' career is consistently in the range of 'feeding drugs to monkeys'.

Still broken. The embed has a YouTube link prefixed with 'httP:/' rather than, well, what you'd expect, 'http://'. So there's that.

It makes me real pissed off and makes me want to say…
It makes me real pissed off and makes me want to say…
It makes me real pissed off and makes me want to say…
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Iowa has a non-partisan redistricting. Still, voting breaks down roughly along urban/rural lines, and most of the more urban areas are in the eastern part of the state. It would be tough to set up districts that didn't give Republicans a big advantage in western Iowa. In the last redistricting Ames (home of Iowa State…

Well, it would hardly be a big admission for someone here to say they disliked canned or studio laughter, so I'll cop to not loving it.

If the distinction you mean is the mixed use of single and double quotes, many programming languages use them with little differentiation so long as they match. I'm going to blame it on that.

Don't give 'your friend' too much credit for the 'Hitler Youth' thing - during that one Grammys they played it was the trending topic on Twitter owing to the band's particularly bad clothing choice and the lead singer's atrocious haircut.

Is he really turned on by a prepubescent Prophet Elisha? This is getting really weird really quickly…

Gosh, I've said some terrible things about Glover recently. It turns out I'm the asshole. :(. Donald, if you're reading this, I'm sorry!!!!!