My dad was a cable repair man when I was a kid. He used to keep a blocker on the "smut" channels, but every now and then the machine would reset and he wouldn't realize it, due to exhaustion or ignoring his family in general. Those were the days though… being an 11 year old, staying up late to watch Skinemax… ahhh…

1982

Maybe I need to get some new friends?

This is a really great post and sums up what I love about the AV Club. I expect, and receive, the same sort of treatment of film/music/pop culture/whatever. This is why the AV Club is the best place to go for "info-tainment" … the same website that can give a genre film like Push a B is also the place to go to discuss…

My buddy and I podcasted on Clerks II a few weeks back, because we thought it was time for a critical re-evaluation after the travesty that was Cop Out (although I don't think Cop Out is nearly as bad as most of my friends). After rewatching it and going through it with a fine-toothed comb, I've come to find that I…

I got turned off to the Venture Bros. right around "The Doctor is Sin" but recently got back into it. I'm loving the cultural references. The episode with Dean getting into prog-rock was hilarious. "You're not ready yet for the Court of the Crimson King!" I also dug the VH1 classics episode too, where all the people…

The tall guy is modeled after one of the writers, Ian Maxtone-Graham, if that helps any.

Maurice LaMarche riffs on the Shatner mispronunciation on a Futurama commentary track and it's equally awesome/hilarious.

Localized entirely in your kitchen? …..may I see it?

I remember when I went to see AP2… one of my older cousins was in the theater. He came up to me and said "Get ready to laugh!" I think by the time Austin drank the shit in the coffee cup, I had already checked out. What a stupid movie!

My first year of teaching, our resident "crazy liberal aging hippie" sent out a mass email to all the faculty members recommending we check out "Outfoxed" and that we could even borrow it from him for a "nominal fee."

Live Together, Die Alone is a strong candidate for my personal favorite Lost episode ever. It was a nice transition between the Survivor-like "political" episodes of Lost and the bat-shit crazy sci-fi episodes of Lost that would follow in subsequent seasons. Also, Desmond.

Richard probably only thought he was going to the new world. I wouldn't put it past the men to lie to him about that. It's pretty obvious he wasn't heading to the Caribbean or the U.S.

I actually thought she was a bit too homely to be Richard's wife.

Look, Blazing Saddles is clearly the superior movie. No one's saying that it isn't. But you have to agree that it seems anymore that anything popular on this site (Hangover, Avatar) is almost instant grounds for criticism merely *because* it's popular. And that's an attitude I just no longer stomach. Look, just…

He was one of the last to die. He got caught in the cooling chamber doing what he could to help Cillian Murphy.

I compare them in that they're both pretty similar to crap.

Hangover is the funniest movie of the decade. I guess the backlash has begun…

I like your style even if I hate your double posties.

I'd defend the first Fantastic Four movie, but I just don't have the energy.