What's with the quotation marks?
Is the product called Lysol or is that some kind of euphemism?

Having not read the other ads, I thought the copy you quoted was way funnier before you explained it was about smoke.

I know the Simpsons is in a class of it's own, especially with the gleeful subversion of the kind of "always back where they started" tropes, but I don't think it's a coincidence that the show fell out of a lot of people's favor when it started permanently altering the characters (ie Maude Flanders death, Apu's…

I'm pretty sure the difference between you and everyone else, DB, is that we would rather have our tastes dictate our social circles than the other way around. The bubble you claim to live in is really hard to swallow, as there is essentially no reason for it to exist the way you describe. A world were everyone's…

No, park's right. Animated films can be in any number of styles (film noir, for example). It's definitely a medium.

Well, maybe I won't read it twice…

That's definitely a bass trombone. If you hear it as an annoying buzzing sound, it means you need to get better speakers.

Sure
Persians have British accents. Don't ask questions.

An arena show would be the perfect venue to graphically interpret the death of the Flying Graysons. Here's hoping.

Wait, how has the look of the alien changed?

Definitely.

Pop-punk cover?
Welcome to the new Millennium, AV club. That'll be a breakbeat-remix of the original theme, thank you very much.

I watched this episode with someone who hasn't seen anything after season one, and kept having to explain the silliest details. Mind you, not the normal "that's a smoke monster" or "he can travel through time" kind of Lost explanation, but more "here's why they included that needless bit with the limo driver" or…

If they make a movie, nobody will have to read the book!

Won't be anyone as long as Jack and crew are still on the beach.

Dang!
Was anyone else hoping for a Richard flash-sideways?

…sarcasm?

You guys are missing the point—films need to be edited to have blinks and saccades because we don't do those things when staring at the screen, and that would make them feel unusual.

FHS
Apparently, much of this was filmed in and around my old high school.

"Plus the fact that nothing has ever been done by the government that hasn't been done better by the private sector."