Does the Joker even have a canonical origin? I'm not a big comics guy, but my understanding was that they deliberately left it vague and contradictory. Seems like the weirdest possible version of a solo Joker film.

As a lawyer, this is news to me.

Dude, I know you've said you're a lawyer, but do you actually go into courtrooms? Because in my experience any judge that found this in front of them would tear a strip off the guy for wasting everyone's time, before finding in favour of the Defendant.

It also costs more than then $20 he's suing over; and if he's planning to go through with the claim it'll take a hell of a lot more time than 40 minutes. I think I can take judicial notice that only a creepy weirdo would do something like this.

I more or less agree with you, but it's worth pointing out that the racism of Shakespeare's London (the beginning of the colonial/slavery age) and that of 1814 (the height of it, with enlightenment racist pseudo-science thrown in too) were probably pretty different in scope. Definitely preferred the Doctor's attitude…

There's always a few options, like avocado rolls, or my favourite: yam tempura rolls.

DKC2 is a classic, and 3 is very underrated. I could see how the aesthetic of DKC2 could bug you though, Diddy and Dixie rapping along to a boom box, and wailing on a guitar, respectively, are the most unnecessarily X-treme 90's things ever.

Oh man, I remember that book. I wanna say… the Crystal Star? (google says yes). One of the wackiest EU novels, and that's saying a lot. I only half remember it, but I'm pretty sure there's an alien that looks like an altar, heals people by enveloping them in golden scales, and that may or may not have come from…

I'll take a stab at it:

Naw, just his less talented brother, Valeri.

oh jeez, I just got that the Ginsburg's lip reading scene was a 2001 reference, and I've rewatched that episode like 3 times already.

You're describing my first experience watching the show pretty closely. Took me a few tries to really figure it out and get into it. I love it now, for what its worth.

They seem to have lost the thread of Leslie's character. I actually liked the premise and most of the execution of this episode, but Leslie's behaviour took me right out of it. They seem to be taking her back to her long forgotten Michael Scott knock-off roots. Which is unfortunate, because I love the 'competent but…

@avclub-3db41011acc2d229176bf6a92202728d:disqus Because she gave him her notes at the end of the episode. He knows how everything is going to happen because she described it to him after experiencing it.

So the deal with class actions is that they're intended by lawmakers as a sort of private law enforcement of public interest, basically to punish corporations for shady practices in situations where no single person is invested enough financially to sue on their own. 
In most cases the plaintiffs' recovery is a…

22 Short Films About Greendale is actually a really solid premise, given the Springfield-like kooky inhabitants of the school.

Agreed, I've somehow seen every episode of this show, and this was the best its ever done. Great jokes, a storyline with heart, and no ham-fisted references to race! (although Raj 'needing a testosterone shot' was kind of unnecessary).

Unsolicited praise: your posts are the best case scenario for the av club allowing comments for savage love. Really interesting to hear your perspective. Please continue.

I don't get it either, but it's so common I don't even question it anymore. It's the fetish that represents all other fetishes: "this thing you never thought of in a sexual way at all? Yea tons of people think its the sexiest thing in the world".

Jon Dore's good too