@avclub-98470000dfdbcbccf2c7cd42d80955ae:disqus - I feel that way about Dwight.  Didn't he kill Angela's cat at some point earlyish in the show's run?  Something about a freezer?  Am I misremembering that?

The Pam and Jim thing reminds me of those "failing restaurant" TV shows I'll sometimes leave on the TV when I'm working on something else (Kitchen Nightmares, Restaurant Impossible, that kind of thing).  You know that by the end, there will be a forced "resolution" and "improvement" and "hope," but it's spent way too…

Deanaleedoo!

If I didn't already dislike "shipper names" like "Deancest," the fact that for a horrifying moment it made me wonder if there's such a name/concept floating around the Venture Bros. fandom would have done it to the nth degree.

What you just said.  Word for word, almost.

Writing posts about shows he doesn't like.  Pointing out he used to like that band, but they've gone so commercial, pfft.  Blaming the world's ills on hipsters, while pointing out that (clothing name here) doesn't make him a hipster, he's ALWAYS dressed like this.  Counting the days until Christmas season so he can…

Completely, completely agree.  I wasn't familiar with him before that role, but now I find myself looking for him all the time - was so glad he's on The Americans, and especially in such a good role.

That's terrible that Uter refused to put clothes on your roommate's four-year-old daughter.  Now we know the real reason they left him behind on the field trip.

I should have eaten a candle first.

Huh.  After taking a couple of weeks off this show, I tuned in for this one (because while I fear most puppets, I do love Muppets).  There were two lines I thought were funny - the whip in the Jeff puppet's hand and no one being able to say they hadn't lost respect for Britta as an activist.

I'm a big fan of JK Simmons.  But over Christmas, when I was going through a really stressful time, I had the same dream over several nights: I was enrolled in a boarding school that was a front for a bunch of cannibals.  The faculty was going to eat the students one by one.  JK Simmons (always wearing the coat from…

The real question is: Did you have to explain the reference to him?  Because if not, my admiration for the man just grew even further.

That is incredible!  I don't doubt it at all.

I met him a few times, and had the pleasure of having dinner with him at Telluride two years in a row.  People always say how great the deceased was, but he sat down and seriously talked writing and movies and books with me - who was a 19-year-old girl who was only there because a friend was optioning a screenplay…

I genuinely looked forward to AHS every week.  The Following is an obligation.  I watch it in 20 minute chunks because I can't take any more of it at a time.

I haven't acted since I was in high school, but I'd love to play a smarmy British lame-o everyone keeps calling charismatic but who never actually exhibits any of this alleged charisma, or a non-gay murderer who hasn't ever murdered anyone and makes out with a guy I live with as a boyfriend (guess I'd have to be a…

@avclub-eb061e1b51370c6de4b4968e26b4f286:disqus, uh, so good thing wit isn't my goal, then?

@avclub-e129a878f7b0e5aa9ac09e0282f64ea6:disqus that's a perfect example of how measuring the quality of something by the amount spent on it is a generally bad idea.  And as to how they get into college, most state schools like where I teach admit pretty much anyone with a high school diploma from that state.

I agree very much with that.  There's too much hiring based on a checklist and little effort made to find out in even the most basic manner where the potential hire's abilities lie.  But as you said, even those HR people who are willing to make the effort often aren't empowered to put their findings to use in any real…

I teach at a large state university.  Most of my student went to public high schools of varying degrees of quality, not prep schools.  They should theoretically have "learned to learn" in high school, but they didn't in the vast majority of cases.  So the undergraduate degree becomes a small amount of specialized…