Under no circumstances should white people attempt to write sci fi allegories for the late 80s/early 90s LA gang scene. That was painful.

Yeah, and the episode is called "Willie Pete" (aka White Phosphorus). I get it. American forces used herbicides in Vietnam, so maybe they used sarin nerve gas? American forces use WP in modern combat, so maybe they used sarin nerve gas?

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So in your mind, it wouldn't even be a contemporary news story on the show, but a direct rehash of a Vietnam war era conspiracy theory? That makes even less sense.

Yes, except the premise is that this real life group of people we have running the government and the military (and not some fictional crew) right now would be presumed capable of doing so. The fake journalists and real viewers are expected to take that insane story and think "well maybe it's true?" Whereas I'd sooner…

Mysteriously, none of whom employed by the US government in the year 2011…

The other major plotline this week follows Hamish Linklater further
investigating the U.S. Army’s alleged use of sarin gas in Operation
Genoa.

Well, not a literal unending festival of rape (I would have thought that'd be obvious?), but I was specifically thinking of Girls when I wrote that.

http://www.imdb.com/title/t…

I realize you're a persistent troll, but it is rather astounding that the studios and filmmakers have nothing to ever say on any level about modern society or geopolitics or anything besides "Boy, that 9/11 sure was awful, huh?"

That the actress is a decade older than her college-bound character can be written off as a spoof on 90210 tradition

I remember the rest of the episode being rather bad, but Calculon did the best darn Romo and Julie T a gold plated acting unit is capable of. I was bummed that there wasn't a youtube clip of that up. Or that a google search was so useless at figuring out which part of the Black Swan score was used.

Cartoons will always rank below live action for me. Too easy to bail out weak ideas by just drawing something wacky for a few minutes, plus animated faces have to maintain the same blank pose for like 90% of an episode's run time. They also suffer from that late-to-the-party problem due to the huge lag in animation…

Out of curiosity, for those who didn't totally care for AD S4, gutcheck time: what's a funnier comedy that aired in the last year?

I think she's meant to be about 25-26 after getting knocked up at around 18 or 19 by Depardieu. But then, man, when she was in bed with George Michael with him in that silly robe at the end, that wasn't a good juxtaposition with the previous gag about how prepubescent Cera is with all the sex offenders.

Isla Fisher was kind of a weird casting. She's got to be like 35 years old. And Cera's like 23.

Axe Cop is, and I say this with no hyperbole or exaggeration, the dumbest fucking thing ever made in the English language. I'm now angry for having watched any of that.

Either "Bort!" or the entirety of Nixon's redubbing were the best jokes of the episode. The cleverest, though, may well have been the Scooby Doo corridor of doors where Fry and Bender run through one and then…they just go into another room, the end. How has nobody ever done that joke before (or have they)?

Hmm, yes, AD is the first thing ever to make an "X looks like ejaculate" joke. We've broken new ground with that one.

The first George Michael episode has all the best payoffs.