Who doesn't bite a Popsicle?  Where do you find the patience to suck it?  SUCK IT.

But seriously, every nation is interesting, because nations are built on people and people are fascinating.  Anyone who can't make the history of any nation interesting is just failing at what they do.

We have a boring history?  Then how do we have so many awesome Heritage Minutes?  Remember that time Lois told Joe that a strong man in tights will never fly?  HAHA!

@avclub-e3f5ab7f02122f95b801e13e2c586d6a:disqus , Characters Welcome.

@miken32:disqus , do we?  I've never seen one, but we Eastern Canadians seem to be pretty unfriendly to American slow-serve restaurant chains.

A huge amount of Canada's corporate sectors operate as informal versions of cartel systems.

@avclub-cb833d2aebc200c9e298ce9b4fe0b0cf:disqus , first off, great screen name. 
Second off, Baruchel confirmed that ABC put the kibosh on Montreal because they were afraid that Americans wouldn't want to a watch something set in Canada.  So he set it in Burlington instead, because it's one of the closest American…

But when people do things differently, they get criticized.  The Critical reaction to Iron Man 3 commonly consisted of people clucking about how Tony Stark wasn't in his Iron Man suit enough, and there was almost a "trying to reach above their station" sort of vibe.

I can't imagine he was referring to that, considering he said "90% of any thread", not "90% of this thread", necessitating a wider context.

People tend to shit on people who preemptively victimize themselves, but having dissenting opinions is certainly allowed.

I'm not sure that @avclub-0d1acb18712a07918cfd9c186fbcf01e:disqus knows what you're implying, so I'll jump in:  This show was poorly written.  That's what people have against it.

@TimeTravelParadox:disqus  and @avclub-3be42d8a3412057f79af152555e39bd4:disqus , I actually haven't really noticed a lot of this, outside of people freaking out at certain takeovers, I find things mostly to be pretty measured.

Yup. Leaving the medical profession to do something else isn't necessarily a step into a less upstanding career.

I'm pretty sure he was discovered while doing Standup on an episode of The View dedicated to funny physicians.

Holidays of Future Passed is a modern Simpsons classic though.

Writing about a non-famous but real person allows for the audience's expectations and experience with the movie to be shaped in a way that you can't do with a fictional drama.

Eh, it depends on how well-shot.  The shittiest of film scripts can result in an amazing film if the director and/or the DP are superlative. "Life in a Day" was about nobodies, but the conceit was strong enough to make it interesting by itself.

Korra certainly dealt with various events during this episode, but she didn't have an actual plot. It was more like she was the protagonist in an RPG, running around and seeing villagers do stuff, but unable to take any significant actions that might derail the massive Plot Momentum that's been built up here.

17/18 year olds are idiots within a culture that makes them so. A culture with a less-extended ontogeny easily produces leaders by the same age.

Korra's mistakes are the result of her inability to empathize with others or think for herself.  After Season 1, "raised wrong" isn't a viable excuse.