Yeah I'd say it was more of a general Southern Gothic parody. The constant mentions of how hot it was and choreographed brow wiping was perfect.

While we're raggin on Glee's unoriginality, David Rawlings did the melancholy cover of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" first and better:

I think it's just an artistic flourish and for all we know it's days if not months later and Homer took Marge to the same place or somewhere very similar. People saying stop looking for plausibility in the show with this or that are just being disingenuous dicks, though. Suspending beliefs for the purposes of a…

I'm actually starting to wonder if Girls is making an effort to appeal to people like me and losing the people who liked it from the start, because I already think this season is leaps and bounds better than the last one.

Having seen that God awful show, there were some very well-observed beats in the sketch that they told in that usually clunky way you described. They do this same thing with political sketches, just having a personality say the subtext instead of comically exaggerating the subtext like satire is supposed to. The…

It wasn't even his eye line that bugged me, he was reading aloud as he went. He couldn't grasp the concept of checking your line and then giving a reading as though it were spontaneous. That is "can't walk and chew gum" level stupid.

Seriously, that is fucking bananas. That is just an aggressively alienating move and I'm nothing but impressed. I'm especially psyched since I've actually seen the play through dumb luck. It is excellent.

I don't really think the show is going to have them get divorced, but they obviously want us to think it could go this way. They're trying to anchor Pam in Scranton and Jim in Philly. Though I actually agree with @avclub-ee4fadf37efceab02df97947e8d240a6:disqus and said so elsewhere, it's not as earned a fracture as…

I don't really think the show is going to have them get divorced, but they obviously want us to think it could go this way. They're trying to anchor Pam in Scranton and Jim in Philly. Though I actually agree with @avclub-ee4fadf37efceab02df97947e8d240a6:disqus and said so elsewhere, it's not as earned a fracture as…

@disqus_okgItcD0yy:disqus What if it wasn't bleak though? What if it was just two people wanted two very different things in life and agreed it was best to part ways? God, at least it'd be different with the constant and utterly predictable impulse to satisfy every fan's fairy tale ending.

@disqus_okgItcD0yy:disqus What if it wasn't bleak though? What if it was just two people wanted two very different things in life and agreed it was best to part ways? God, at least it'd be different with the constant and utterly predictable impulse to satisfy every fan's fairy tale ending.

"If you know a better 'All Over You', please let me know."
Oh definitely, off his Town Hall concert on April 12, 1963. Hearing that song without an audience doesn't do the humor justice. And that concert is his best from the acoustic years, hands down. He's having an absolute blast in front of what was by far his…

In the sound business they call that booming from underneath.

In the sound business they call that booming from underneath.

I was sitting with a married buddy of mine who basically went, "Welcome to the weekly struggles of a real marriage, Pam." I get that it's a tense moment, but it's also one dance recital and a job transition you knew was going to be stressful. It's still the first out and out fight in an otherwise flawless marriage.…

I was sitting with a married buddy of mine who basically went, "Welcome to the weekly struggles of a real marriage, Pam." I get that it's a tense moment, but it's also one dance recital and a job transition you knew was going to be stressful. It's still the first out and out fight in an otherwise flawless marriage.…

I like to picture the camera guys going, "I think we finally got something bleaker than those smug British assholes!"

I like to picture the camera guys going, "I think we finally got something bleaker than those smug British assholes!"

I'd give the show so much credit if they did that. You can see them pulling apart with Pam finding mural work in Scranton and Jim in Philly, clearly building to one of the two (my money's on Jim) making a big gesture and sacrifice. But oh man, if they showed real balls, and went nuclear on the relationship, so much…

I'd give the show so much credit if they did that. You can see them pulling apart with Pam finding mural work in Scranton and Jim in Philly, clearly building to one of the two (my money's on Jim) making a big gesture and sacrifice. But oh man, if they showed real balls, and went nuclear on the relationship, so much…