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Says the man who can't bother to capitalize about the #1 bestselling author in the world, who also won a National Book Award and placed on the New York Times Top 10 Best Books of 2011.  Any writer who can receive this level of critical kudos while having more #1 novels than any writer in history cannot objectively be

You have no idea what you're talking about, at all.  King didn't self-publish; he published through Grant, a specialty publisher out of Rhode Island, in 1983.  He didn't want it published in mass format at first because he didn't think his mass audience would like such a weird story.  No buyers needed to "help him

"She moved back west to Oregon." It's this subtle stuff that continues to make ModFam one of my favorite shows.

Oh for the love of God, fire this horrible critic.  This has gotten beyond embarassing, AV Club.

I'm at the point where I'm skipping Rabin's reviews and just reading the comments.  They're more insightful, have more to say about the actual show, and even when I don't agree with what they say, I understand why they're saying it.

No, they just all sit down and agree that any show that makes it past its fifth season is going to suck.  Note their bizarre reviews of How I Met Your Mother.  By the actual content of the reviews, they seem to like the show in general week to week.  But when discussing it as an overall thing, they say it's a shadow

Question: earlier this season, when Dave and Alex slept together, the reviews worried that the show would get too "real."  Now, the reviews are worrying that, because the characters don't seem as "grounded," the show is getting too "wacky."  This isn't as unsettlingly misguided as the recent spate of terrible 30 Rock

Just wanted to say thanks for the Drew Carey show shout-out.  When that show got weird, things got so much more awesome.  Still pissed it's not on DVD.

How is Kenneth's confession and character development simply a "meta-joke"?  The reviewer asks for relatable characters and real human growth, then dismisses it when it happens as "not worth it in the long run." I'm completely baffled.

Hey, that's a callback to my comment on St. Patrick's Day!  Hooray!

Anyone notice that this, along with Happy Endings' bizarre Bebop and Rocksteady shoutouts, indicate a trend in referencing minor TMNT villains on sitcoms?

If so, it will be the first twincest fanfic I write.

I kind of like that there were three different gay "types" in one episode - so much so that they stopped being types.

I'm … so puzzled.  So, Dennis's appearance is funny, works in the context of the episode, and helps move the plot forward … and yet is awful and hackneyed and dumb.  I literally don't understand this review.

Nothing can be crankier than that. Stating that a single episode of the show singlehandedly destroyed everything that it used to be about and will never, ever recover from the hell that this episode wrought was the most unsettling and off-putting review of anything I've ever read.

"I'm bilingual." Best line of the night?

"Nice try, prolapse."

Actually, I thought the Lwaxana appearance was one of her better ones. 

SO thrilled you're on this.  Trust me, the mystical stuff gets woven in better as the series goes on - it's just that there's a LOT to take in at first.  I really think you're going to dig this show, and I'm also happy you dropped the letter grades.  Excited!

I remember when, while watching the television program Friends back in the 90s, how disappointed I was when it seemed to recall but failed to live up to the film The Last Picture Show.  I'm very glad that Mr. McFarland is astute enough to know that our silly, half-hour sitcoms need to be tested against the rigours of