Couldn't agree more. Downvotes should only be used when people are being assholes/racists/misogynists/homophobes/etc., and for Cookie Monster imposters.

I can totally see why it's not for everybody.

Because I implied that "Bart on the Road" is anything less than perfection? Not that I really said anything bad about it. Looking back, I just see it as a sign that they were running out of ideas and had to work harder to make them work. And that later on they would be unable to make them work, and eventually give up…

I wouldn't call it "filler." I see the Todd Glass as being a lot like improvised jazz. A lot of the parts are going to be slow, but that's the nature of the beast. The tradeoff is that you get something very unpredictable that is brilliantly hilarious when it comes together, and it kind of needs that buildup, and the…

Normally I would never listen to anything 3 hours long either, but James Adomian on Todd Glass is the exception. You might want to skip the first 20 minutes or so before James gets there, but once he's in the studio it's pure gold.

In the context of Marge and Lisa's conversation, the line is funny. The delivery is so great—it gets across that sense of Lisa's exasperation both with Bart and with Marge's obliviousness to everything. An odd choice for best line of the episode though, I'll give you that.

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I think the problem is that in addition to how annoying/whiny they may be individually, they are worse as a couple. I don't think I've ever seen a couple in TV or movies with such terrible chemistry. It's funny because I did watch that first (half) season and was totally rooting for Rachel and Ross to get back…

What makes Del Grande's post so great is that it obviously implies he thinks Rocky VII: Adrian's Revenge is a real movie.

I think this is sort of the beginning of what led to the bad writing. What separates classic Simpsons writing from the later years is that in classic Simpsons, you really feel like the stories spring naturally from the characters. The characters are at the center, and the writers shape their stories to make them fit…

The one who walks among you is I, BART SIMPSON!

This is why no one likes him. The creator of the original Cookie Monster gimmick account would never have made that mistake. It's just more proof that this is an inferior copycat of an account we all used to love.

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Yeah, but the Coens also write their own movies. That makes a huge difference.

Unless Spielberg wrote the screenplay, I fail to see how "paper thin characters" is his fault. Why do people always use movies with bad WRITING as evidence for someone being a bad DIRECTOR?

The fact that the movie is a literal whitewashing of a real story (they took an interesting story and changed it to a white guy) is a strike against the movie right from the start, and it is so hamfisted on top of that. They make Tom Hanks' character 100% good with almost no real flaws, and the bad guy of the movie…

I'm sure some people did, super fans who wanted anything with the comedian's name on it.

It was the greatest year for the greatest TV show ever. Seriously! 1993 has the best parts of Season 4 AND season 5 of The Simpsons. In addition to Marge vs. the Monorail and Last Exit to Springfield, it also has I Love Lisa, Krusty Gets Kancelled, Homer's Barbershop Quartet, Cape Feare, Homer Goes to College,…

Even as an 11-year-old, I knew it was stupid. But it has this "so-bad-it's-good" charm… I think a lot of it is because the actors are so sincere. You can tell they're really trying hard to sell the inane plots they're involved in.

Really? Admittedly I am only a third of the way through but it makes sense so far. They thought, what is the stupidest thing we could possibly have an argument about? And then they ran with it.