Wait- NAFTA made their wages lower? Did Mexican factory owners threaten to relocate and get cheap U.S. labor if their workers didn't take a wage cut?

I guess when the DVD/Blu-Ray cover is already aping early 90s visual design, it's a bit more difficult for a fake VHS with 90s visual design to stand out.

My dad thought I would enjoy it because there were a lot of references I would understand. I imagine people who have built their sense of themselves around the idea that they are smarter and better than their parents must find it frightening to watch an episode and realize that their parents just think of them as…

The critics probably weren't able to take TLA's visuals into account because of some stupid production decisions. It came out in theatres in 3-D despite being shot in 2-D and Shyamalan having a visual style that is incompatible with 3-D cinematography. The movie has a very dark color palette as well, and the polarized…

Wrestling is something boys do when they're about Zeke and Jimmy Jr.'s age, and also tend to get close as they realize that being friends can lead to more personal interactions than laughing at the same fart sounds. Nothing to read into there, except that sexual/social behavior lines aren't so rigidly drawn early in…

I think they just played the Belchers' VHS tape as a visual reference to make sure the dub was lining up right.

I'm not sure what you mean. I don't know if what you're saying means anything.

Probably- there are several previous storylines where Don takes one vivid detail from his personal experience that "makes" the ad (Peggy does it a few times too, most notably when she sneaks the Virgin Mary into an ice cream ad).

It's not about a lack of talent so much as Gene just not knowing the technical side of music, which impedes his ability to collaborate with people who do. "Electric Love" is the work of someone with talent, but all the instruments are playing the exact same notes. Gene probably just copied off his piano part and gave…

Just look at him.

Well, Gene obviously has musical talent. What he doesn't have is the drive or discipline to turn that musical talent into anything more than an ability to occasionally come up with catchy little songs involving the same 3 chords in the same key. Given that Loren Bouchard said that one of the great perks of working on…

I just watched it, and I'm more intrigued than ever by what Michael Schur is trying to do as a showrunner. It takes guts to have your will they/won't they couple hit the EXACT SAME beats at the EXACT SAME time as your will they/won't they couple two shows ago. It's like he's trying to locate the platonic ideal of the…

He's a cop who has an axe.

It's too bad that the two parts of "government is greedy and incompetent" so often come into conflict with one another. If they'd kept fining Uber drivers, you guys would have enough for a new public school by now.

People don't remember it so much these days, but there used to be a time when sitcoms traditionally hit their real stride around season 4 or 5. Happened a lot in the 90s- Seinfeld, Frasier, and Friends all went from good to white-hot amazing around that point.

Well, Fawn did paint him as someone who is literally disgusted by the appearance and general presence of panties in his life, so I think he did a good job steering into the perversion.

It's been at least 20 years since I last re-read it. I feel confident in your interpretation, too.

And make herself Catholic, based on that gesture at the end.

I write copy for websites, and one of our clients is in Jersey City. I like to have some geographic familiarity with the stuff I write about, so I looked up Jersey City on Google Maps, and it seems like an awesome freakin' deal. You're right across the bay from NYC, presumably at slightly lower rent thanks to New…

Well, now I need to read A Wrinkle in Time again.