The date of my birth is closer to the release date of Disney's Peter Pan (in 1953) than it is to today.

I loved original recipe Ninja Warrior, but one of the biggest reasons I could never get into the American version is the murder of the pacing, like you mentioned. Show me people running the course, not practicing at home.

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Sounds good to me.

For what it's worth, the worst is over. There's at least one genuinely good scene in the next movie (which promptly gets basically retconned, but whatever), and one decent genuine laugh (which comes from the prompt retconning, funnily enough).

How much of a fascist are you?

The best way to eat those square pizzas was to fold it around one of those hard "brownies" that always came on pizza day at my school.

Honest guess? Worst-case scenario (so, within the next few months), they/Disqus will implement a new function that disables comments after a certain number of days after an article posts and it becomes retroactively applied to all older posts.

And that would be important, but in this tournament, everything's made up and the votes don't matter.

As long as it's generating genuinely productive and thoughtful discussion (I haven't ventured far into the comments, but what I've seen looks fine) and a chance to revisit some old episodes, that's fine. My biggest issue was pretending it's something it's not, and pretending it's not something it is at the same time.…

I get it, and that's noble, but treat it like it is, that's all. You're probably right about The Returned and Looking, but there are FOCs all the time that are basically "Hey, isn't this neat?". If this is a way to get people to take notice of shows they would've ignored otherwise, that's great, and hopefully it'll…

An Open Letter Regarding the Tournament of Episodes

Right this second? Composing a screed about the Tournament of Episodes for the comment section here, working on the last substantive chapter of my PhD dissertation, trying to keep an energetic rat-dog entertained, and watching Five Easy Pieces on Netflix.

This is why I detest "tournaments" set up like this in the first place. Granted, discourse on AVC is generally higher than most other places on the internet, but when an article proposing a supposedly "fair" vote ends with something along the lines of "yeah, this one should definitely win. Now it's up to you all to…

Regarding Ugh, Soso (and this may be a SPOILER, but probably not, and only thematically if so:

So, I was filling up my car at a Marathon station today, and the first thing that came on the monitor in the gas pump was a Community clip (Jeff agreeing to help Duncan pursue Britta), with no context that I could see except for an "Emmy Contender" tag at the bottom of the screen. It was strange.

1. Rabin. (Specifically, the Flops series.)

Don't forget geography.

Dialect:
American (Standard)
Australian
Canadian

That is one chewin' puppy.