So wait, they're playing old forgotten videos from bad pop stars of the past decade? That somehow seems less worthwhile than their old 80s theme shows. Just go modern and classic, you're not required to hit the bad stuff.

That's what I mean. As a documentary about Steve Bartman, the Buckner stuff is superfluous at such length, and as a documentary about baseball goats, the film's focus is too restrictive and Buckner functions as an unnecessary B-story. Either way it doesn't belong and doesn't work.

"Running subplot" is the nicest way I can think of to term what Gibney did with Buckner, which, as a film marketed as "the story of Steve Bartman" was aggravating to no end as the first 15-20 minutes are devoted to someone other than the actual subject, rehashing information that is as well-known as any in baseball…

This is the proverbial third-time charm. The first separate review of the Fox animation block that is both actually a critique of the episode, and accurate to the point that it actually seems like you've seen the show before. It's also painfully accurate. The "Cleveland Show" episode was actually pretty solid, and…

Damn, man. I guess this says that it's not worth watching, but you clearly have very little experience with "The Cleveland Show" if you think this was noticeably terrible comparatively (as opposed to a low-key, surprisingly solid episode of a routinely mediocre-to-awful show). The fact that you mistook Rollo for…

I'm used to lengthy opening pieces on topics only tangentially related to the focus of the review, but they're OPENING pieces. I assume everybody else in the comments (which my computer is neglected to load particularly) is also raking this review across the coals, but man, the review was just getting set up and…

Well-played, Handlen.

Yeah, I don't actually blame you or even think it's illegitimate as criticism since it's literally just your recent change in opinion, I guess saying I "hated" it seemed more attacking than I really meant, but I still did enjoy "Walking Distance" when I saw it. The similar "Of Late I Think of Cliffordsville" I was…

I acknowledge fully what Sterling was going for with "Walking Distance" and I think it was mostly successful, but it just didn't go into my pantheon (and I hate someone utilizing the "WHEN I WAS YOUNG LIKE YOU I WAS UNDERWHELMED BUT NOW THAT I'M OLDER IT'S REALLY HIT ME!" defense, because it leaves you with nowhere to…

I love "Zero for Conduct" so much, it's like "If…" with overwhelming stylistic glee instead of banal insufferability. "L'Atalante" also had a lot of wonderful atmosphere and some great performances (and a terrifying puppet), and I think it's a good flick too. I need to wrap up the rest, but this is a nice thing, if…

I think I laughed out loud more than I have pretty much at any time this season, but this just felt really slight to me. I'm not sure what else you could really do, but "old cartoons", "80s video games" and "sloppy anime" have been parodied to death, and it didn't feel like any of the situation-based humor was fresh…

Love that this review switches it up from "it's the same game with some minor tweaks" to "there's so many confusing things here, I can't even decide on what to play!"

I've never seen this show, but now I really wish I had instead of being forced through several blandly passable seasons of the same channel's "Wildfire". I haven't laughed this hard to a review in ages, and it sounds like it was as fun to compile and write as it was to read. Glorious all around.

I have a friend that I still keep in touch with whose name is the even worse "Sam Stankie", although he's less of an awkward bed-wetting girl and more Stifler from "American Pie" come to full breathing life with a sillier name.