I like the blaxploitation movie version of this trope, where multiple characters shoot it out in full daylight in an urban area that would obviously be crowded at any time in real life, but has been emptied of all traces of humanity except the principal characters (maybe cops too, but ideally not). Bonus points if…

Please, please, please tell me that the hardcover edition of this book has a big stamp on the front cover that says "Originally ran as a serialized novel on _Cracked_!"

Dunno. What's dipshit America like?

If everybody displayed their bodies as much as she does, you'd realize just how common it is for people to be more overweight than Lena Dunham. And she is, indeed, barely overweight.

IMVHO Bridget Jones is a caricatured "fat suit" style of depiction that just happens to be missing the fat suit. (Or maybe that isn't quite right —- it's a little more like the comic strip "Cathy". In either case, the weight issue is kind of treated in a 'stock character' way.) But I *am* surprised it wasn't on the…

Did John Waters ever acknowledge using Mrs. Joyboy as a prototype for Edith Massey's character in "Pink Flamingoes"?

"It’s an empirical finding that Olivia Wilde has also expressed recently. After a gender-swapped reading of American Pie made her male co-stars aware of how boring many female roles are, Wilde answered bluntly, "Welcome to our world!""

I would kickstart a documentary whose premise is that Boney M. is responsible for the end of the Cold War

No

What, no Schindler's List?

If you haven't played the game it's kind of hard to explain, but I'll try. Basically, it gives your attacker the option of accelerating his attack, making it immediately due and payable. If you don't defend within a reasonable time, he can seize your assets (if he had a secured attack) or go to court and get a…

From reading the comments on this and other sites, it seems that biggest drivers of the defense are not Allen's artistic integrity, but

I was really hoping that when the AVC covered this, it would be illustrated by whoever is illustrating a lot of the features lately.

In a vacuum, absolutely. In reality, context matters.

It isn't fair to compare classic Chuck Norris to anything in Stephen Seagal's long decline (which began with On Deadly Ground). Seagal's first films are classics. Try e.g. "Out For Justice" and tell me that it isn't hilarious.

Agreed. I never got the appeal. I think I was in the intended demographic for these things, but I never found them funny. (It's always weird when the "parody" has a completely different audience from the thing being parodied. What's the point?)

If my Googling is any guide, this book review seems to have originated the term (or maybe it is slang specific to Wes Anderson that only appears in the book). It must have a more common name…

Yeah, criminally underrated.  Today, I think she is better known for the usefulness of her last name in designing crossword puzzles.

I tend assume that when someone has a pop-cultural thesis like "[thing] defined [an era/movement]," "[new thing] is the [old thing] of our times", or whatever, it's taken for granted that nobody is committing to the literal meaning of the statement.  The game is just to take it as far as it will go, and see if you…

Not to be a downer re "Comedians in Cars", but replace "with the second season underway" with "with the second season now over as of a week ago."  Only the first season was 12 episodes.