Laughing aside, pretend it's 2006 and it's Bush asking for advance episodes of… god… what were we watching then… Battlestar Gallactica. We'd have been all over that shit.

That you know of

The cover on that EP was a photo taken at a show at Athens, GA's Tite Pockets. It was awesome.

There are people on this site who have never known the SImpsons to be a good show.

I'm not a Christian, but Jesus doesn't die in the end.

I remember coming across the parody MAD did during season 1 or 2 and I hadn't heard of the show.  At that time the monkey intrigued me more than the sex humor.

People who walk around in a state of continuous shock that the rest of the world doesn't share their neo-marxist / post-modernist ethics.

If Google had "Irish Vernacular" we could get some Joyce out of this.

Maybe I'm different from the typical internet TV commenter.  Sheer enjoyment of being back with these horrible people carried me through my first viewing, watching it again out of order (which is supposed to be OK, I guess) the flaws are becoming more apparent.

There was a — I don't know the term in video, if it were music it would be mastering — problem with the sound.  There were a number of lines and even a few full dialogues that were whispers.

It's a bunch of jokes written by the writers of Arrested Development and delivered by the cast of Arrested Development.  It's definitely worth watching.  If you're looking to be entertained rather than impressed, you'll come away happy.

But, in reality, advertising doesn't need to be hip to be effective.  Go back and look at magazine ads from the late 60s and early 70s, there are some that try to market to the new spirit of the times, but there are plenty of ads, many of very high quality, that are aimed at the "silent majority" of people who hadn't…

Mad Men is a show about a womanizing alcoholic.  In the opening credits, he slowly falls off of a building.  It is also set in a time period of mounting chaos, uncertainty, and hedonism.

This show is definitely not for people who like their protagonists to lead moral lives.

Thank you.  Like so many terms, "jumped the shark" has fallen victim to the fundamental laziness of internet writing.  Most shows never jump the shark.  Jumping the shark is not the moment that the show stops being as good as it used to be, it's the point when the writers have so thoroughly run out of ideas that they…

I love how the focus is on whether or not Natalia sufficiently vocalized the fact that she didn't want to have sex like that, not the fact that, you  know, she didn't want to have sex like that.  Consent isn't a game where if you can avoid your partner saying "no" firmly, you get to do whatever you want.

It was sex where one person didn't want to be participating.  That was pretty clear from everything she did or said, even if she didn't put a firm stop to it.

Her quavering "I haven't showered" was a no.  You don't need to not have a "no" to force yourself on someone, you need to have a "yes."

I'm going to repeat myself from above, because I'm almost shocked that nobody else is voicing this.  That was rape.  Yes it was about control.  Rape is about control.  She tried to say no, she was nervous and said it quietly and buried it in complaints about his floor and not having showered, but that's still saying…

I don't know how it would stand up in court, but on any self-respecting lefty college campus, or in Sweden that was rape.  I think the most basic question you can ask about sex and consent is "did both (or you know, however many) parties want to do this?" and the answer to that scene is a great big "no."