@avclub-39df51c015ce671b473b8cf5a306d217:disqus I'm pretty sure nobody is allergic to heaven. That makes no sense. It would be more like pouring you a glass of water just in case, even though you say you're not thirsty. It's not even that intrusive since the OP just posted the sentiment on their own page and didn't…

I'm pretty confident that Ebert would have taken no offense at that benign wish. I remember him saying something to the effect that he considered the secular part of "secular humanist" optional.

I grew up in the 80s and remember Ebert always being some kind of presence in the background of my mind, but when he died it made me remember when I really started paying attention to him. I was in my early twenties in a medium security prison. It was an older, kind of dank place that looked like the Shawshank…

Go look at the Tonight Show replacement article comments….you will see a legion of white people agonizing over the possibility that a white guy will be replaced by another white guy.

1) Scatting
2) The singer's stupid hat
3) The absence of any other redeeming qualities

Nobody who has operated a motor vehicle in Hartford likes snow. Those Friday night dinners would be a hell ride.

@avclub-bf3eb25e65e1f87dab76829f15a0907a:disqus No sweat, I wouldn't broach the subject in a public forum if I was still touchy about it. I was an (at times obnoxious) atheist well into my late twenties and plenty of my non-Floyd musical taste is questionable enough, so I'm very slow to judge.
And yeah, parenting is an…

When I was a teenager I thought Evil Dead 2 was just a funnier and less shitty remake of Evil Dead 1. I haven't revisited the first for years, so I'm still not clear how they're actually related to one another plotwise.

I hate Pink Floyd and like church, so I'm absolutely fine with how it turned out. All jokes aside, my parents were so fucking out of it they were totally oblivious to my being sexually abused by a teacher in middle school and let me run away and live on the street when I was about 15. Going to church was a part of the…

Maybe it's my above mentioned trauma involving hippy parents, but I have the exact same sentiment towards Pink Floyd.

I think pudding was a generic term for dessert, and I imagine the meat being some awful gristly version of cottage pie or something. Or ground-up children.

@Dikachu:disqus That's pretty funny, I actually remember seeing that episode of The Simpsons in my early teens and totally relating with Ned's anger. We've done nothing and we're all out of ideas!
@avclub-62812d8eb06386505986efff8b5e43ac:disqus There was an actual father-son moment in my life that took place in a…

My stupid hippy parents intentionally let me watch this around age 10, their rationale being that it would be cool if they could tell their friends I liked Pink Floyd or something. I ended up being horrified and running full speed in the opposite direction: listened to nothing but punk rock until I was about 25, never…

Well, it's a roundtable or whatever…everyone had to say something, right? It's not like he personally convened a roundtable discussion just so he could attack the show he doesn't like. I just don't get why everyone is so angry.

@avclub-d88a1fef9041a3c49408560ef2122eab:disqus Even the people who like this show seem to have no problem conceding that it's got very little substance other than jokes. If the jokes don't appeal to you, it's just obnoxious. What the fuck is there to analyze? If anything, he gave it more thought than it deserves. 
I…

This show doesn't need any help to being reduced into something that's easy to hate…if its very particular brand of humor doesn't appeal to you, there's nothing left but shrill and neurotic unfunniness and unlikable characters.

It must be fun to whine too, because there's a lot more of that than discussion here.

I sat through a 9-10 episode block of this show once with no previous exposure or preconceptions, and this is exactly what I saw. It was like Seinfeld with more obnoxious characters and worse jokes. And I don't like Seinfeld to start with.

No.

@drdarke:disqus Maybe it's different in other parts of the country, but where I'm from the nutty evangelicals are a distinct minority. The most popular denominations are either liberal (UCC, UU) or moderate (Presbyterian, Methodist), and even the more conservative churches are generally not involved in politics or…