@Monkeylint:disqus Even worse, she's a girl, so that's a whole other worry – "trains are for boys!"

My mom started freaking out after one of her friend's grandkids was diagnosed as autistic because my (at the time) 20 month old liked to watch Thomas and Friends. "Trains are a sure sign of autism!"

Ha! I missed that… good one, Noel.

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday!

Or, y'know the time the Simpsons made that joke 10 years earlier (women and seamen don't mix…)

"Jared Keeso as a seemingly mentally challenged man-child"

I remember her more as the "villain" of the show – wasn't she a bit of an uptight, privileged, snobby bitch?

This is the comment I was just about to make (although mine would have been less coherent and more strewn with profanity). It was a show about white dudes dealing with wacky Indian coworkers in wacky India.

I lived in Canada and we didn't have cable but Buffalo's Fox affiliate was one of the few channels we actually got so I always find it strange that it was this little upstart channel that wasn't available nationwide.

There's an odd troll of a woman at my office who currently wears those flip-up shades. It's simultaneously admirable and revolting.

The first season of this show was the start of my lifelong crush on Marisa Tomei, but yeah, Cree Summer was pretty foxy too.

As a dude who used to watch Facts of Life every day after school, I can attest that Tootie was a much bigger draw than Latifah.

Same here (although I also watched Living Single and Martin from time to time).
I was obviously aware that the casts were predominantly black, but it never felt like the shows were specifically not aimed at me.

A few months ago I was browsing the "Clearance" rack at my local grocery store and there was a huge jar of mayonnaise (it had to be 2L or something – I don't remember ever seeing a jar that big on the store shelves).

A few months ago I was browsing the "Clearance" rack at my local grocery store and there was a huge jar of mayonnaise (it had to be 2L or something – I don't remember ever seeing a jar that big on the store shelves).

Ah yes, the pride of London.

Look, I don't like Ted Leo, Neutral Milk Hotel OR the Arcade Fire at all but I can't be bothered to hate them because they're easy enough to avoid.

I generally give him the benefit of the doubt when it comes to that sort of thing because as you said there's a moral viewpoint, but I felt that scene in particular had an aspect of "Hey, wouldn't it be awesome to see someone's face get run over?" without any greater purpose.  It didn't raise the stakes or anything,…

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of graphic violence in movies either (which is why I'm so conflicted about Tarantino's movies in general – I find them thrilling and entertaining, but usually come away feeling dirty) and that scene was too much for me. Never watched it again because of that.