Seconded: Hebrews?

You do realize she's said she was gay - or at least bi - at one point in her career, right?  I'm in complete agreement that we shouldn't call every woman with short hair, or every homophobe for different reasons, gay, but it's a little different with her. 

Memories triggered by smell can be so intense - every now and then I'll be back in the neighborhood I grew up in, and there'll be this smell, this combination of the doughnut place that isn't far away, probably some plants that grow in the area, whatever, and I'll just have completely random memories pop into my…

Not My Amityville Whore-er?

She's confused (I'm not defending her - I think she's an idiot and I can't stand her music, despite being old enough to remember when she was very, very slightly famous).  I remember in the 1990s she was ranting and raving about being raised in a conservative household shielded from the very presence of homosexuality…

What, is she funny or something?

Sometimes, with people like this, I like to pretend they're conceptual artists, playing a role we can all come together and laugh at.

I could be wrong, since I'm basing this on a memory of a magazine article I read twenty years ago, but I believe she's been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.  I do know she was hospitalized (for mental reasons) for a time when she was younger.

How would that story be endearing, anyway?  I guess she was going for the "I do my laundry at a laundromat, I'm just a regular person like you all" type of thing, but all I would hear is "I don't need to abide by the hours of the laundromat, I'm special."

I, for one….

@avclub-f979394c282f4c89bbd91e8ef5589479:disqus  -  Wow.  I was only speaking in generalities about the "divorce is too easy" issue raised by @avclub-0f2aab038be93ff407d92af691001e73:disqus and hadn't actually listened to the song before.  Now I did and holy crap, you're right, the song itself is pretty offensive. …

Agreed.  In my opinion, Tina is the one character who represents something rather new to television and is generally pleasant enough to carry a storyline.  Bob has some Homer in him, Louise some Bart and Linda some Marge (well, Marge when she's drinking, especially).  Gene is more of a unique character than they are,…

@Æthelred, I would find Stephen King masks genuinely terrifying!  (I was going to say "a thousand times more terrifying than Poe masks," but a thousand times zero….)

Having one kid with memorably bad handwriting is as guaranteed as having (at least) one girl completely obsessed by horses.  No elementary school is allowed to exist without it.

I already had my share of surprise when I realized Ann's dad was the guy from Firefly/Dollhouse, but I had a moment of genuine cognitive dissonance when I realized he was King Candy from Wreck-It Ralph.

I never was much for Pam myself, but Jan on the other hand could inspire some wholehearted, er, salting (hm…doesn't hold up well when it's a girl talking, does it).

Not the Annabel-Lees!

I'm just glad it didn't happen because then we'd all have to salt the Pam.  Nobody likes salting the Pam but she gives you no choice!

I would personally pledge to buy the whole series on DVD if I could receive some sort of guarantee all characters would get killed off in that very fashion.

As I was reading the article, I was thinking the same thing - "geez, Todd, you don't need to keep assuring us you still like the show, we're all adults here" - until I read the comments.  Man, I would never want to be a media critic.  It's got to be hard to do a job that gets people incensed by its very existence