Oh, man, that was amazing. Tompkins shot it back at Aukerman in the Ghost Richard Harrow episode, too.

Hmm, the example that comes first to mind is actually from the Mr. Show commentaries, where he comments about a sketch with gay caricatures "Yeah, those gays have been on top for too long!", and David Cross instantly gets super defensive. I'm bad at citations but I'll keep it in mind next time I'm listening because…

Wait is 'Spanish' the accent of another race now? There's obviously a difference between doing the accent of an actual language and trying to sound black or whatever

I was thinking the whole time that The Informant! would probably be the Damon movie that I'd pick for a love, and hoping someone would bring it up, so yeah, that was weird. Also, the clear hate-that-I-love for him is Eurotrip, which Damon's the best part of.

jt was kind of cool, one of the only episodes that really hones in on the title- well, apart from a few where the director or whomever shows up and they start sucking up to them (the Superman II guy was the worst ever for that.)  Manzoukas was being quietly super mean to Berry in the background for a lot of that, I…

There's an early one where PFT briefly takes over and Aukerman comes in as Ray Romano, who can only say 'Debra!" over and over.

Any time they bring up gender confusion, I'm waiting for them to insist that someone's a side-by-side, an invention which is pretty ingenious for letting that kind of joke happen without actually being all transphobic and gross

One of my favorite CBB moments ever is when Aukerman says something casually racist about Asians and one of the guests calls him on it, to which he responds "No, it's ok, I'm a racist"

@avclub-ca4fc44a59d0201cc7d4f760153cb00c:disqus You can make a case that there are conflicted drives going into that movie, and that the other writers or Siegel made an effort to contextualize the fascist elements, but I am 100% that Milius meant every aspect of them to be taken as absolute truths

A.) She goes into that in the comments and B.) if that's your takeaway you are a poor reader

what on earth are you talking about, how was that not rape

Harry's feelings there and Travis Bickle's when shooting the black convenience store robber in Taxi Driver seem remarkably similar, only Bickle was vaguely aware that there was something wrong with them

In a fair world, John Milius didn't get a fucked up brain and Dirty Harry wasn't horrifically fascist

My aunt decided that our entire family had to go see that movie, since our last name is Stone. She has yet to be invited to another Thanksgiving.

Oh, you're right, I was conflating it with the Maine.

Imperial Germany winning would be a pretty interesting alternate history- you could do a simple mirror of the real world, where the UK or France becomes the fascist warmonger due to penalizing demands made in reverse Versailles, but I imagine that it would have played out differently, since part of the reason Germany…

I was also under the impression that most modern scholarship held that the Lusitania sank due to engine malfunctions and was spun into a casus belli by the press, which would imply that any calamity could have been seized upon as a touchpoint.

It's depressingly easy to imagine an alternate timeline in which France, Britain, and the US allied with fascist Italy and Spain against a unified Communist USSR and Germany, but I don't see why it necessarily would have happened- the aggressive expansionism of Hitler's foreign policy wasn't a necessary economic…

Hell, we've got time travel, let's replace all the negotiators with future-grown clones

So wait, lawyers are literally just regular ass dogs?