EVERYONE LISTEN TO COMRADE PIG

Nothing described in the above article is any more insufferable than God Bless America during the Seventh Inning Stretch.

Cool, thanks for the recommendation.

"This is one area where I'm absolutely sure the show is going to miss the complexities of the situation and have it be "Cersei vs. Evil Religious Guy", when the High Septon is actually, in many respects, the most pro-ordinary people political figure in the whole series."

Webb is Ned Stark, the guy whose membership within but conflict with the established order drives the initial story and who is, uh, "injured" at a crucial moment and sidelined. I think Sean's breakdown above holds up really well — Smails/Tywin is obviously great as is his bete noire of Czervik/Tyrion, the raunchy…

Yes Tyrion as Al Czervik is great, but Jon Snow as the inherently worthless Danny the Caddy is the real winner in that analogy.

Wait a minute, this must Marah's that damn nurse from Season 2! BOOOOOOOOOOO!

Yeah, Walking Dead is bleak and harsh, to the point (in the comics at least) where that becomes boring. I think Daryl on the show is more in line with what I'm talking about — a guy of little consequence in "real life" who has become super-competent and awesome in the apocalypse (this is only based on the first 1.5 or…

Hmm, I like this idea. And that's also part of the myth — the decline comes from outside sources, not "the qualities and values that made it great in the first place." Maybe laziness and complacency among the valued set are to blame, but not the values themselves.

"Listen. You boys are smiling and having a good time, and that's good. You should be having fun out there. But fun doesn't beat the shit out of people and it sure doesn't beat the shit out of someone like JD McCoy. So have your laughs now, but as soon as I snap this photo I want to see game faces. I don't want to see…

How DARE you impugn Powerlifter Poll! It's our most widely-read and -curled feature!

That's sort the point — the entertainment usually takes the apocalyptic situation as a given, so it's not a "I wish I were in the Australian outback fighting Lord Humungous" situation. The characters (and by extension the viewer/reader/consumer) ARE there, so the focus is not on how the apocalypse happened and why but…

I've never watched Assy McGee but I feel comfortable saying the show was a failure if the title character never said "I'm not a racist butt."

I think one of the weirder takeaways from being on this site is that I can't see a self-identified age like that and not immediately thing the subject is a powerlifter.

If women were any good at shooting zombies they'd do that instead of going on horrible fishing/reminiscing trips.

Zach Gilford needs to do a lot of things, he was so damn good in Friday Night Lights and where has he been since? You would think his agent could just walk in to meetings, throw on clips from "The Son" and watch the offers roll in.

I like to think that after this, they all went to JD McCoy's house and beat the shit out of him.

I feel sort of bad for "the classics" in that sentence, it clearly got added on as the speaker realized he was running out of things to say a la "Life is precious, and God, and the Bible."

This menstruating person is right! OB-GYNS not only study but also prod vaginas.

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