The whole ideological dimension of this film bothers me. It's not just that it's a conservative film, it's that in addition to being a conservative film it also aggressively validates ignorance and violence.

Is it weird that my pop culture frame of reference for  parodies of french film is Les Cousins Dangereaux and Hotel La Rut, not Rochelle, Rochelle?

Is it weird that my pop culture frame of reference for  parodies of french film is Les Cousins Dangereaux and Hotel La Rut, not Rochelle, Rochelle?

He didn't really invent it. The game's pretty much Terraria, a 2D Minecraft-Ish sidescroller that Harmon was briefly super-into.

He didn't really invent it. The game's pretty much Terraria, a 2D Minecraft-Ish sidescroller that Harmon was briefly super-into.

Well, it's been rumored for a while now that all of NBC's big comedies will get 13 episode orders, and then some will get additional orders based on what gets cancelled in the freshman crop.

Someone on another site suggested that Don looking down the elevator shaft was less about what would happen and more about what could happen. Megan tells him later that she expected him to come home really drunk, but he didn't. His plan was to do the usual Don Draper thing: Get shitfaced and fuck someone, like Peggy…

The Beatles are actually a lot cheaper to license than they used to be. They're still really expensive, but after Michael Jackson died the price has come down.

Matthew Broderick as the masochistic patient. Orin's harder because he has to be older and more masculine than Seymour but not to the point that it's weird.

She thinks he's got no real long term plans and just wants to play house, get the benefits of marriage without the commitment or work until he's ready to move onto someone he does want to make that kind of commitment with.

Is Abe using her for practice? I sort of got the impression that he was more into their relationship than her.

When I first heard that everyone was all agog over a song called Somebody that I used to know I thought it was a cover of the Eliot Smith song with that title.

I don't see what that has to do with it though? I mean, sure, the Occupy types tended to be unemployed and so on, but how does that make their votes worth less than a Tea Party vote?

They're trying to revitalize it but it's kind of like the wisconsin protests. The powers that be waited them out and the momentum kinda drained out.

See, I actually kinda liked this one. It felt like back when Amelie actually worked at the AV Club and bothered to rank the things from good to bad. Although ther wasn't nearly enough bile this week.

Just to add to this thread, Doing some data base searches I can't really find any demographic studies on anime fans, but I have found a lot of papers by educators recommending the use of Anime and other animation in working with autistic students for various reasons.

Comments thread on another site.

I've heard this theory that people with disorders that impact their social skills (think autism, social anxiety, etc) like My Little Pony because it telegraphs the social and character beats really hard, kind o like how the moderate to severely autistic like Thomas the Tank Engine and that other train show because the…

What, are you trying to imply that quasi-ironic reappropriation of traditional masculine objects and aesthetics might be rooted in insecurity rather than genuine appreciation!?!?

Leslie Knope.