popcorn entertainment can be good, but when you're irritated by stupid characters and shamefully obvious plot devices, it breaks immersion.

I watched Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi as a kid.  There wasn't anything else.

Weekend at Jabba's

We goddamn better well get a Jar-Jar Binks standalone.

Well, Irish people have their individual beliefs and philosophies.  But there's only Branson on the show and he has to represent them all.

He's getting a farm!  Matthew needs a good steward and Bates will be the guy.

I like bacon, but so does most everyone else … There is zero hipness factor in oohhing and ahhing over bacon these days.  It's trite and cliched.

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My wife is south african (although with a decade in both the UK and in the US for the last decade) and she still has the twangy south african accent.  I picked Lizzie's out right away.

Shit FiOS on-demand hasn't posted the LCK with Josie and Kristen yet fer crissakes.

If I were Sheldon and I wanted to eliminate Josh and put everyone else in a bind, I would have picked bacon and scallops.

And most of those shows are about people striking it rich either through extractive industries or dumb luck.

This more soul crushing than watching The Phantom Menace for the first only time.

But this what the storage lockers on this show are like.

@Dikachu:disqus especially when you never grow any taller than 5'5".

Trying to keep your 90% CGI movie ahead of the technology curve is a losing battle.

"God, I can't wait to see this movi—WHAT THE HELL IS THIS SHIT?!  LUUUUUCAS!  You killed my childhood.  I will never forgive you."

The first Star Trek movies were also made with a cast that had  several seasons of television shows behind them to build up and flesh out characters.  Audiences knew who they were getting.

I fillet fish that I catch.  I cringed when I saw Josie hacking fillets off that salmon during the preview.  I had rewind and watch it again just to be sure that she was a trained chef who was doing that. Awful.

I was genuinely surprised.  Which is impressive because I spend a lot of (work) time on AV Club.