Ginsberg got off easy. He was completely out of line.

I thought Don's idea was pretty bad, to the point that I assumed everyone was pretending to like it in the initial pitch because he's the boss. Of course, I felt the same way about Meagan's idea a few weeks ago. Maybe they would have seemed fresher in 1966.

I think the point is that Cooper is completely out of touch with what's going on at the office.

What the hell is a shipper? Why does everyone seem to know what this term means?

Yeh, I thought the whole campaign storyline was kind of a downer. They weren't fun episodes, they were 20 minutes of the protagonists getting shit on followed by some minor victory at the end. The balance felt way off for a comedy.

@avclub-b03b8d4bf8d4e3922a8c0b867e4f2ce0:disqus I guess it makes sense when you put it that way. I never would have considered that from my perspective.

Did the censors insist you photoshop the pipe out of Popeye's mouth?

Have you not seen Catfish? They are absolute pricks.

What channels were you watching that the only black woman you saw was Scary Spice? Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Brandy, Monica, Aaliyah, Mya, En Vogue, Toni Braxton, Tracy Chapman, TLC, and so on and so on  were all over the radio and MTV in the mid-to-late 90s.

So the circumstances weren't exactly the same? And yet the artists had similar career trajectories? It's almost as if this sort of thing happens all the time to artists of all kinds and there's no reason to postulate some additional force.

First of all, most of the people on your list have had long, successful careers. If you want to include everyone who's done something great and then followed it up with something shitty then your list should include everyone who's done something great.

If you go looking for it you can find some asshole to make snarky comments about anything. Surely the internet has taught us that.

Yeh, it's too bad that no black artist has ever been able to sustain success.

I'm sorry, but that theory is really dumb.

Except this story only caught fire because people mistakenly believe that a three-dimensional, volumetric image was being projected. That also wouldn't technically be a hologram, but whatever.

Except it's not a volumetric projection. It's a 2D image being projected onto glass.

He's dead. He doesn't care one bit. If his living relatives can make a living off of him, good for them. Besides, if he were alive he'd probably be well into Ice Cube territory by now—it's not like any of these ancient disputes would mean anything.

Yeh, it's not a hologram, and it's not volumetric. It's an illusion that been used in magic and theater for more than a hundred years. The only difference is they're projecting the image instead of using a live actor and a mirror (which has also been done many times before this).

And don't get me started on the ceilings—it's like every room has one or something.

And it'd be even better as an EP. But even the best moments of it don't compare with the best moments of Sgt. Peppers, Abbey Road, Revolver, or Rubber Soul.