Apparently Kevin R Free has recorded lines for an upcoming episode, so shit is gonna get dark.

Fun Fact: Despite what most conspiracy theorists think, the only really useful information to come out of the CIA's mind-control program are the principles and methods behind US "Enhanced Interrogation" procedures. In fact, it's from this research that the US discovered that playing unpleasant music over and over and…

So the faux anti-capitalism of Brit Pop is a perfect fit.

Supposedly there was a lot of interplay between record labels and the Mandelson/Campbell axis of scumbags. So the sort of faux leftism makes a lot of sense.

I'm pretty sure he actually has a point. BritPop wasn't used by the intelligence services, but I thought it was pretty well understood that there was a really messed up relationship between certain individuals within New Labour and BritPop celebrities. Cool Britannia was so important for Labour's re-branding and…

I dunno. The one in the second episode seemed more like an alternate version of the gag from the pilot rather than a proper running gag in and of itself.

Who would be Aaron in this scenario?

Middle school is the best age for most awkward nerds because we could pretendt hat being good at computers/being awkward and kinda smart/whatever would translate into a brilliant career, and that the other kids would be huge failures.

The lonely island was so much better before it was a musical act.

It's more about cartoonishness and absurdity than actual animation. It works when Rick is racist or sexist or otherwise terrible in The Young Ones because the principle cast are all absurd stereotypes.

Sometimes it sort of turns in on itself, like how a lot of stuff with the Borat character was actually intended to be skewering westerners tolerating anti-semitism not because they'd fall for the Borat character, but because politely and awkwardly tolerating him means we want to do the holocaust over again.

I'm pretty sure that that, along with spending the whole third act in a dress, is not gonna make it to the film.

@disqus_G6KJ0mAlB5:disqus No, my argument is that Bugs Bunny is an elevated and exaggerated slapstick comedy, which is a genre that has wide appeal.

The comparison of this to Bugs Bunny is kinda retarded and here's why:

Didn't he kill it because he was worried about how it would affect his family?

IIRC the story follows the expected arc up until a scene that's like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre only with sadness and dildos instead of fear and violence. So it's either a trap or a very loose adaptation.

@avclub-b78501aaad511cb25326896139533cb9:disqus Denying women personhood is kinda misogyny man. It's not just that they don't have power, it's that the embedded sexism is never addressed, it's that the gender imbalance is never addressed, and it's that the women are never humanized.

Part of what makes Mad Men a better show than Breaking Bad is that Don's acting out is depicted as pretty much universally destructive from the git-go. The women he's with hate the fact he's married and get angry if he brings it up because they know to feel guilty. His drunken bullshit ruins Sally's birthday. He's…

Oh godddd

But there's an embedded misogyny in the show. Look at how badly Skyler, Marie, and Lydia fare compared to Walt, Hank and Mike. Which characters have more complicated inner lives? Which characters are funnier and warmer? Which characters have more agency? The show sets up these oppositions. The best a woman will get is…