Things I just realized while watching these videos:

I haven't seen this movie (nor will I), but my guess is that any high school in America has students who could write a better script.

I haven't seen this movie (nor will I), but my guess is that any high school in America has students who could write a better script.

You might enjoy "Red Dawn," if you haven't seen it

You might enjoy "Red Dawn," if you haven't seen it

One extra I'd love to see: a Putney Swope audio track with Arnold Johnson's line readings, instead of Downey's overdubbing.  (I don't mind Downey's interpretation, but I'd love to hear what Johnson did with it.  Even if he did apparently flub all of his lines.)

One extra I'd love to see: a Putney Swope audio track with Arnold Johnson's line readings, instead of Downey's overdubbing.  (I don't mind Downey's interpretation, but I'd love to hear what Johnson did with it.  Even if he did apparently flub all of his lines.)

[Krusty] Ha!  General Tso's chicken.  That's going in the act.

[Krusty] Ha!  General Tso's chicken.  That's going in the act.

Is it just me or is the AVC really leaning heavily on the word "showrunner", much more than it ever has in the past, as of like a week ago?  

Is it just me or is the AVC really leaning heavily on the word "showrunner", much more than it ever has in the past, as of like a week ago?  

@avclub-59c4e0a1cedba7dc5ff1541ac8b60028:disqus my main beef is not with "metafictional" writing, but covering for a weakness by acknowledging it directly, in a way that makes it clear that the acknowledgment is intended to mitigate the weakness.

I think Judge Dre Mathis is still unclaimed.  I almost used it

I want the whole cast in black tie, on one of the main sets used in the show, cleared of furniture, so they have room to dance while singing "Thanks for the memory"

My answer to this question is: "Whatever the Seinfeld finale was—- not that."

Writers of so-called "literary fiction" and several prominent essayists got there long before the Simpsons did.  The Simpsons is only the most prominent, or most exasperating, example of the form.

(Like Claire says) they're almost completely different genres. "Bossypants" has purely autobiographical chapters, but then it also has showbizzy chapters that seem written so as to be self-contained, so that they can be excerpted in a magazine or something (maybe that wasn't the reality, but that's how it read to…

Raekwon's "Incarcerated Scarfaces", Ghostface's "Winter Warz", and other Wu-Tang cuts

Steven Seagal's character "Gino", the lead in 1990's "Out for Justice."  He is unfathomably stupid, but we're supposed to love him because he's out for justice.

Yes.  Ralph Meeker's character is repeatedly slamming an old man's hand in a desk drawer, and Robert Aldrich cuts to Meeker's grinning face, unambiguously inviting all of us to join him in vicariously enjoying the violent quest for justice.  Although like Idiot Control Now points out, this amorality is more or less…