That's a pretty clever analysis; I hadn't really thought about it that way before. I think Walt's little anarchic streak has been neglected in the latter two seasons (and rightly so, since he's had bigger things to deal with), but you reminded me that in the first season, Walt was a character who told his boss to fuck…

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This show does horrific bursts of violence better than any television short of The Wire. Off the top of my head, I'm also thinking of the scene in Tuco's apartment, the red phosphate attack in the pilot, and especially the Hola DEA turtle with "HOLY FUCK DID THAT GUY'S LEG JUST GET EXPLODED??"

Canada's gun laws are certainly similar to the United States' if we're talking about ease of firearm acquisition compared to the rest of the world. Outside of maybe Switzerland, Canada's gun laws the most similar to the United States out of all first world countries. True, firearm ownership is not a right in Canada,…

Agreed on the whole prison-rape is not okay thing. It's annoying because jokes about prison rape are always lame, easy punchlines, but also because nobody gives them a second thought since it's happening to criminals. I mean, there are otherwise normal people who can somehow simultaneously believe that rape is one of…

@ sequence: It's great that you've decided to make generalizations about a youth you're severely out of touch with, and seem not to realize that maybe some of them find daytime television as crass and vile as you do. You're like the aging punk who declares "real" music dead when you see the luxury touring trailers and…

@Stephen Hyden
It's been a while since I've seen Bowling for Columbine, but I don't think the take-home message from that film was exactly pro-gun control. Remember the bit where he takes a brief trip over the border to a country populated by gun owners and paints it as a super-safe happy fun land where nobody locks…

@Stephen Hyden
It's been a while since I've seen Bowling for Columbine, but I don't think the take-home message from that film was exactly pro-gun control. Remember the bit where he takes a brief trip over the border to a country populated by gun owners and paints it as a super-safe happy fun land where nobody locks…

Yeah, as much as I like Tim and Eric, and by extension Dr. Steve Brule, it weirds me out how much the A.V. Club staff seem to worship it. I mean, I remember that newswire article announcing the new T&E season that was downright insulting toward people who don't "get" the show. And now we're gonna pretend that Tim and…

Sam's had trouble carrying out stealth operations ever since his superiors started using the bat-signal to project his mission objectives onto the sides of buildings.

I'm glad they finally tied up the RV's origin, because I always thought that was a bit of a plot hole. You can buy many crappy RVs for $7000. Part of the reason I really trust this show: the writers have a great track record for delivering.

Yeah, I've noticed nobody wants to stop talking about that damn ICP video. Seems like there's a thread about it in pretty much every article. Honestly, no part of that song is atypical of the Insane Clown Posse. If it's so mind-blowingly stupid and naive and well-meaning, they have like 20 years of very similar back…

I saw Repo Man like this year and it still changed my life. Give me a break, I'm twenty. I figure I've still got one or two revelations left before everything is boring.

I think it's because he's constantly high, stressed out, and sleep deprived.

@Dame Hedwig: Similarly, the first time I played Half-Life, I thought it was a bold decision for the developers to have the game play out with no soundtrack, and I thought it was an attempt to entirely immerse the player: No music, no cutscenes, no level breaks, constant first-person perspective, no character except…

@mad, if I remember my wicked raps correctly, the next line is "it was a big smelly-ass fucking farm llama" or something. He's trying to fuck the llama not the bucket, but the phrasing is so assbackwards it's easy to get confused.

Except that Frank Miller still writes comic books, while Millar just pens storyboards for upcoming films. Seriously, three "big action, widescreen" panels per page, punctuated by those big obnoxious two-page splash pages when something so intense that it can't be contained on one page happens.

@spider jerusalem - I don't think the Wire counts since it's not like it was a huge pop culture phenomenon or anything. I think it's a little easier to give a dignified and definite ending to a show nobody's watching than to something like the Sopranos. Maybe that's a good thing; a lot of people say the fifth season…

I completely disagree with haterbaby. When I think of the Matrix, so much of what I recall seems so familiar that I think it would be pretty boring to watch again. Yet every time it comes on tv, I have to finish it because I'm surprised at how refreshingly well-done the whole thing is. Especially if I catch the first…

@Roger's Aching Ticker: If you would prefer to see someone fail at making a good film than succeed wildly at making a bad film, then you and I have vastly different ideas about entertainment.

Man, I do not understand why A.V. Club staff keeps acting like the general critical consensus is that Death Proof was better. As far as I can tell, that only seems to be the case here, and judging by this thread, maybe not even.