You're not my freaking mother, @avclub-022199896b1f52952c180b60caa681bd:disqus!

In the past I've suffered from a particularly bad aversion to taking my shirt off in public places (I once went into the ocean at the beach with my shirt still on). I've never not taken it off for a partner, but I'll admit the first time or two I'm still usually a little self-conscious. It also used to seriously…

I almost bailed on Community after the pilot. The fact that I was watching the whole series in order towards the end of season 3, and knew how much people loved the later stuff, is just about the only reason I continued with it. The pilot has a few decent jokes, but Jeff is such an irredeemable asshole in it (I know…

Better yet, I just looked into it and discovered that the other writer is Jed's wife. Quite a collaboration indeed.

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a pressure cooker is a good guy with a pressure cooker.

@avclub-f4c2cb0e50e462887932454fb8199b83:disqus , I think it was a context thing. I'm pretty sure he's not all that controversial anymore, save for the "Pauper" episode, but he was one of the more hated writers back in the 90s. Not that I was a member, but the alt.tv.Simpsons newsgroup (the main Simpsons comment board…

Wow, I think you are secretly me! This puts it better than I can. Even the dramas I really like sort of have to be funny, usually. My personal favorite is Buffy, and that's really a (brilliant) comedy in its own right at least half the time, anyway. It's not that I don't appreciate straight drama, but just there's…

So….World War III is going to be ruined by Sofia Coppola?

I have the same issue @avclub-64070488d259ab27e18091dc01340e3a:disqus does. The funny thing is, I actually sort of agree with Phil about early South Park insofar as I think the show really "got good" a few seasons in (I don't dislike the first three seasons, but they're ridiculously uneven and the first season in…

How about "Everybody Hates Raymond"?

Yeah, the "scripts" thing bugged me. I mean, that's just factually wrong. I have found a lot of people that think they just improvise everything, like Curb or something, so to be fair to Phil it isn't an uncommon mis-perception even among fans. But still, come one. Watch one of the DVD featurettes or something.…

@avclub-f0a25fc22f6198ce61fe90730dc075e1:disqus  And a third one! #2 was easily the best, though.

I literally named my dog "Bender." So I suppose I associate him with my own dog before I associate him with Jake the Dog.

Wait…does the film not even mention or acknowledge this? I've known that forever and would assume any "documentary" about The Shining worth its weight in celluloid would mention that as the reason for the room change (even if still arguing that the number itself somehow totally MEANS SOMETHING, MAN). I know this is a…

Wait, every half hour? I know there's the gif and all that anyway, but how is someone even reasonably supposed to keep up with this otherwise? Does the XKCD creator assume that none of his readers ever have to sleep or go to work?

@avclub-c26473f2f4772a2a52e4690515ce6e75:disqus , do not plan too much, it might not come out right.

The barbecue chicken was delicious rice.

Aww, I was hoping there'd finally been a premiere for the long-in-development Tommy Wiseau sitcom, "Neighbors."

I'm in the same boat. I'd watch it regardless of an actor's politics, but those sorts of "family" shows just don't interest me. I've never tuned in to Modern Family, either. At some point I realized that, with the exception of The Simpsons, no "family"-based show has actually ever resonated with me all that much, and…

Yeah, I think it's possible to acknowledge that Jean at least steered the show back to something approaching what it was supposed to be, even if the actual quality was spotty and nowhere near what the show had been before. Saying he's been solely responsible for the decline SINCE then is certainly fair considering…