The article does omit his invention of the grill pen and chicken paint. Criminal.

I'm sure no one cares, but I'm losing patience with the AV Club.

It is possible to criticise the licence fee without wanting to make Murdoch emperor of the universe, curiously. It isn't an either or situation.

Well, Lenny's reign of terror is over!

"Oh, you’re expecting me to die?"

Yeah - I agree with this. The whole religious cult thing is improbable, but the idea that she'd be so easily cowed in the circumstances takes the biscuit. Her grandchildren are in prison and about to be out on trial for their lives. Also, was even (say) Anne Boleyn put in a dirty looking cell like Maergery? Seems a…

Annie's in some respects quite a tragic character. She was initially only at Greendale temporarily because of the adderall. Her storyline was more or less that she would transfer to a better college as soon as possible. Then she stayed because she seemed to find that she had friends at Greendale and could achieve what…

I was going to ask if she'd dropped the Brown. Then I was going to make a weak joke about that sounding like slightly twee slang for having a crap. Admitting this is the first step.

Sitcom weddings are always a bit contrived, though. Was it really totally believable that Leslie Knope wouldn't care about her mother not being at hers but would want everyone she worked with there? It's hard to think of any sitcoms where the core group doesn't get magically invited, in fact.

I think forcibly changing other people's personalities without their consent is pretty villainous…

I enjoyed it, but I'm not sure Zooey Deschanel sold it that well. She didn't quite seems as outraged as she should have been.

Abide with me.

You think she can do better than that?

Fleur de sel is the good stuff. They just scrape off the top of the salt pan. Not sure I'd pay £1,000 for it though - you can buy it in Marks and Sparks for about £5.

It's rather a premature assessment, certainly. He may turn out to be right, I suppose.

Yeah, I'm being a bit unfair, on reflection. I think I find his imitators slightly more irritating than Whedon himself.

Or (and I recognise that fantasy is his thing) he could consider writing female characters that aren't much good at fighting or magic or anything, but are still multi-faceted and interesting. You know, like real women.

That might involve nuance, which Parks doesn't really do when it's trying to make a 'serious point'.

I don't think there is a single point when the Simpsons fell. It's like losing touch with a formerly close friend (maybe after university or something). There's a point where you were really close, and a point where you are barely friends at all. In between those times you met up occasionally and had fun, but less and…

How would the experience of the war impact on that? My assumption is that people would have got more used to acquaintances being killed. But perhaps another violent death a few years on would bring back bad memories.