This this this. The issue isn't Ann and Tom as a concept, for the reasons Schur explains—the issue is that all season long, Tom was written as such a completely insufferable douchetard that it's impossible to see an intelligent, self-respecting character like Ann spending any more than one or two dates on him. Tom's…

I'd second this. It wasn't just the dickishness that seemed off, either; it felt like C.K. was acting like someone who was trying to act like his character in Season 2, almost a parody. The line readings just weren't as natural as in his first appearance, like he was trying to put that S2 genie back in the bottle and…

I'd second this. It wasn't just the dickishness that seemed off, either; it felt like C.K. was acting like someone who was trying to act like his character in Season 2, almost a parody. The line readings just weren't as natural as in his first appearance, like he was trying to put that S2 genie back in the bottle and…

What's amazing is that they just about matched it with the Jean-Ralphio-at-the-accounting-firm close: 
http://www.youtube.com/watc… Seriously, we couldn't have gotten one question or line from Schur about nth-level genius like this?

What's amazing is that they just about matched it with the Jean-Ralphio-at-the-accounting-firm close: 
http://www.youtube.com/watc… Seriously, we couldn't have gotten one question or line from Schur about nth-level genius like this?

Armisen's Colombian jail riff is awfully meh, but I'll also stick up for Sister City on several points, mainly that it's the first time in the series we see Pawnee as outsiders see it, rather than from the viewpoint of Leslie or its resident crazies—that it's a pointless nothing town in the Midwest whose chief reason…

Armisen's Colombian jail riff is awfully meh, but I'll also stick up for Sister City on several points, mainly that it's the first time in the series we see Pawnee as outsiders see it, rather than from the viewpoint of Leslie or its resident crazies—that it's a pointless nothing town in the Midwest whose chief reason…

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I salsa your … face.

Yeah, I was surprised by how much American Slang grew on me. Enjoyed it the first time through, but it was a while before I really thought of it was a worthy successor to the '59 Sound. You wouldn't think you'd need multiple listens to enjoy an album by a band as fist-pumping/super-earnest as the Gaslight Anthem, but…

How does one love the '59 Sound but wind up "so disappointed" by American Slang? The latter wasn't quite the former—the former being one of the best albums of the aughts and all—but it was close enough, wasn't it? The hooks on the title track, "Bring it On," "Spirit of Jazz" … all those were '59 Sound-worthy, weren't…

@avclub-78c86aa171e1ab86948a7e10c471fc63:disqus Gah, people really are overusing the "MPDG" term if you're applying it to Luna. First, a MPDG's sole purpose in life is to redeem some brooding unfortunate male soul with their manic pixieish philosophy to life, while Luna (despite the name) is written as essentially…

This would be an entirely true statement if not for the battle between Tobias the mole and George Michael in a jetpack, another "
broad, slapstick comic setpiece" that merely represents the apex of all televised comedy.

I don't know, I like to think that that scene was some kind of highly subtle philosophical statement on the part of the writers on the final, ultimately futility of technological advancement. Sure (they're telling us), you can build a fully conscious, independent artificial lifeform that travels in a giant starship…

Are we allowed to love both S=Y and Dead Cities? They're doing totally different things, but Gonzalez's knack for song structure and those huge crashing crescendoes means that, for me, they're both fantastic. It's Before the Dawn that ("Don't Save us From the Flames" aside) doesn't connect for me, since it seems…

That no one has mentioned Craig Thompson's graphic novel "Blankets" though 476 comments is a damned shame. When my 1-year-old becomes a 14-year-old and asks what falling in love as a 17-year-old is like, that's the book I'm giving her.

Yeah, I laughed my ass clean off and yeah, the "sentiment" between Leslie and Ben was executed as well it can possibly be executed. (I thought they felt more like a couple in that final scene than they did in any part of S3). But this is another approval of the B+ anyway, because man, did anyone else feel like that…

Are albums ineligible?
Nearly 800 comments, and there's, like, ONE saying an album should just stop after Track X. Anyways:

I know the hardcore FF fans hate X, but I love the sphere grid and the battle system too much. Let X in under the wire, and then chip its legs out.