So when are we getting TV Club Classic for Taxi? I'd be all over that - one of history's greatest sitcoms!

In referencing Weinman's critique of Family Guy, I think you've cracked the mystery of Glee: Ryan Murphy is a manatee.

The homeless guy in the pilot, who was onscreen for about 10 seconds. But in those 10 seconds, I got no sense of his backstory, hopes or dreams.

But I think the show is _about_ privileged white girls who live in a bubble. So how would adding Our Black Friend be anything but shallow tokenism? Unless of course the point of the episode is that the girls are so pleased with themselves for having a black friend - that would shut the haters up!

Phineas & Ferb needs to be in the mix here. Best show that my kids watch, at least.

Most people agree with you in disliking Mockingjay, but what you're asking for aren't the books she wrote. The series is all about how one pawn gets elevated to queen (but without power, knowledge, or agency) and how she views things with extreme limits. If what you want is a story about the politics in the capital &…

I'm on Team Keith - the Hunger Games series works through the lens of Katniss, who doesn't care about this history herself. If there were more history & context, it would've moved outside her perspective & motivations. As a reader, I was curious about those elements - actually, I was even more curious about the…

I read the "[Long Pause]" in her comment on Schaeffer like I heard the dead air in the Mike Daisey This American Life "Retraction" episode - weighty, meaningful silence.

I've been thinking that they should dual cast Ivy/Karen as Marilyn/Norma Jean for awhile now (and I think people have been talking about it in comments since week 2). But what I fear is that the season will end with that decision, presented as if it is this monumental, you'll-never-see-it-coming twist that claims to…

@avclub-cab5253981b35abd8c20591477427e60:disqus Demand your money back from The AV Club for forcing you to read something you don't care about!

I show "Vitameatavegemin" to my TV & American Culture course every year. It still kills. Watch it.

My alternate Lost-themed suggestion for Ryan's DHARMA Logo: "NOT PENNY'S BOAT" tattooed on the palm of his hand.

Between Whorediot and the "Name a Noun"/"Name a Place" lines, I thought Mallory had the best gags of a great episode.

… something somebody would dream?

And this would be how the show morphs into Lone Star!

Speaking of: the LAPD database has one John Cooper in it? Hmmm…

But I couldn't help hearing it as if Chris Traeger were reading it, and then getting sad that NBC won't let us have Community & Parks in the same night anymore.

There was a Smothers Brothers song called "Crabs Walk Sideways and Lobsters Walk Straight."

Agreed it's complex - I'd highly recommend Melvin Ely's book The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon, Michele Hilmes's Radio Voices, and the documentary Color Adjustment by Marlon Riggs for people interested in learning more.

"There's no record of either creator being a racist." Decades of two white men portraying African-Americans via exaggerated, ungrammatical dialog, with the comedy mostly focused on the characters being ignorant, lazy & shifty - that's not enough of a record for you? Images like this of the creators in blackface? http:/…