I explained it to him in a different thread and he still hated it (I think).

Does it have to be a joke? Why can't it just be a harmless wink/tribute to the audience, like the Infinite Jest-heavy episode?

Did they do the reunion this year? I know in past years, they've done a one-day revival over at deadspin, usually around September if memory serves.

This exchange actually warms my heart. It's always super-hard to delicately correct someone's writing. It's even harder to do so without being deluged with a bunch of snark from everyone and it's so rare that the author actually responds in a courteous and accepting manner.

But I love cookies and sex and air! Come on!

I have a question about the whole town merger thing: What benefit was it to Pawnee to resorb Eagleton? Was it ever explained beyond 'oh, help out your neighbor!'? It seemed weird that a town would assume all of the debt of a neighboring town (even ignoring their deep hatred for one another) and not really get anything…

Um, what? I honestly don't understand this. I guess I'll just iterate that it is (was) one of the funniest sites I've ever read. Most of the time I was reading it, I didn't even know who the guys were because they wrote it anonymously.

Can someone explain to me the hatred of Councilman Jamm? Is he too cartoonish? Too dickish? I don't understand why he's pretty much universally reviled here.

I really hope that it wasn't just a photoshopped graphic and that they actually diecast that as a plaque. Made of 100%, 24-carat solid grit.

'But he didn’t count on the heart, or the determinittyness, or the sheer heartitude, or the gnatosity, or the dirtheart, or the toughgrit, or the dirtdirtdirt, of an 11-inch tall, 2-pound foetus named Dirtid Gritstein.'

It's a nod to Fire Joe Morgan, an old baseball blog written by P&R writers Michael Schur (Ken Tremendous), David King (dak), and Alan Yang (Junior) when they wrote for various other shows like The Office. It's hilarious, even if you don't like baseball, though that helps immensely.

Awesome, I was just gonna ask what the name was. I only quickly saw BABIP but figured the rest was an FJM nod.

Have you actually seen Cheers?

Cheers treated it as a serious issue a lot of the time (at least early on), what with Sam's potential to fall off the wagon and drinking (nearly) ruining Norm's marriage and career. For a show set almost exclusively in a bar, 'getting drunk' was hardly what the show was about and it was only a (small) subset of what…

Shouldn't these reviews get edited before they're posted? There are a
ton of errors here, grammatical and factual. And it's once again weird that I'm reading a 30 for 30 review where the author needs to tell everyone that he wasn't alive during the event. Is that really relevant? The internet can contextualize a lot…

So many of these Hatesongs read like Marah Eakin happened upon the Hater in the streets and then snuck up and sprung this question/interview on them. Eakin almost always seems to be more prepared (though I can't disagree that she sounds ass-kissy fairly often) than the interviewee.

The live version is the first version I ever heard, and its more upbeat tempo sort of ruins the slower studio (original) version for me. http://www.youtube.com/watc…

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I HATE THIS ALREADY

Agreed. imo, though, the split screen is about the laziest way to do it while having it be 'Art'. The 'filming from different angles/cutting it together' would've been a better choice, and a capable director would have had the perspectives take on a different look/feel to them through lighting/lenses/filters/whatever.…