"I totally got what the filmmaker was going for early on": a statement that combines arrogance, presumptuousness, equivocation, and wrongheadedness into a mere eleven words.

To beat this decaying horse: preferred for some. To me, Arundel is making some good points, but they're shot through with all those god damned spaces.

And by the looks of things, you've had to say that exact sentiment nine times. So thank you and thank you and thank you and thank you and thank you and thank you and thank you and thank you.

Atavist!

That's true. I've overlooked Christian fiction, gay autobiographies, Moby-Dick, and the worst sci-fi.

I really don't know where this "Merchant is a dick" response comes from. If wit is nothing more than an incisive observation, humorously phrased and delivered with impeccable timing, Merchant is a wit.

Yep, the answer is now yep. In the podcasts with Karl, he was always the funniest, Gervais being mostly there to goad and cackle, Merchant providing the real humor.

This is the moment you stop watching/reading/listening to anything ever again.

Good glory, Arundel, how many spaces are you putting after your periods? It looks like about seven. Correct is one unless you're writing a fifth-grade book report.

1. "it's not much more than that" What more do you want it to be?!

So, he's played bad music that had already been written and recorded by somebody else, while in full view of the public, and that somehow sullies him of the great songs he puts his name on? You're a far pettier person than I can bring myself to be.

He's still around, he's still singing, and he still has the very best shit-eating grin in the entire industry. As far as I'm concerned, he's undislikeable.

Whatever happened to this?!:

I love your comment, and agree entirely, but you'll never be taken seriously spelling "tons" like that.

The world will always need more Swedish pop.

"Started From the Bottom" is not good, and is certainly not a banger. Regardless of whether he started from the bottom or not, or whether Toronto is a "bottom," that fact remains that the song's chorus is not a chorus. It's chanted nothing, much like his arrhythmic anti-chorus on "Over." The guy clearly has an ear for…

You mean Drake's verse on "Live For," or Drake's verse on "The Zone," or Drake's verse on The Weeknd's song "Crew Love"? In other words, the low points of The Weeknd's career?

Exactly! Drake is a damn good R&B artist (see also "Marvins Room," of course, which is phenomenal). It's when he raps that he absolutely sullies what goodwill he earned singing. His raps are just plain lousy. If he'd stop rapping and start singing, he'd be as compelling as he's claimed to be.

That happens, though. You release a true stinkbomb and it forces fans to reassess your past efforts. For heaven's sake, look at Weezer or Little Wayne or, some say, Liz Fare.

Also a guilty pleasure in that it's music rhapsodizing childhood as sung by actual children.