It's a common misconception that "Killer" in that context was meant to be derogatory. It's actually an example of the common 90s slang trend towards substituting "bad" for "good"; e.g. "Wow, the freestyle rap that gentleman with the backwards base-ball chapeau just laid down upon that 'hip-hop' instrumental was…

Generally speaking, even explaining the process for space travel would take days

Is that really the case, though? I mean, Hulu is showing multiple distinct ads each time [insert joke about Hulu's repetitve ads here], and presumably they're getting paid to do so. So if the network isn't getting some of that amount, however small, per view, the it would seem like they have a sucky contract.

Dear AV Club,
Please remove X and Q from the alphabet. They are garbage letters.
Sincerely,

That can be unpleasant. Although I do prefer when it retains a pleasant chewiness. It's a surprisingly subtle balance.

Yeah, totally. You just can't rely too much on the romanization, since there's so much heterogeneity in that, plus Ellis-island-style transcription problems. I imagine the showrunners used a purposefully generic sounding name, but probably have a specific family background in mind. I'll be interested to see.

Tasty, tasty trash, just like most everything we eat or drink. I'm still gonna get boba once in a while.

That and I assume she's afraid of needles.

It's actually a common enough surname with multiple variants everywhere from Korea to Singapore, thanks to hundreds years of migration and all that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wik… ) so Josh's family could plausibly be from almost anywhere. Plus they're Catholic, so whatevs.

On the basketball court, or while playing surprisingly racial-slur-free FPS games.

In addition to watching each episode by myself and then again with my partner, I may also be putting the entire season to autoplay on Hulu at nights. It won't help with the Nielsens, but… changing media environment? Or something like that?

I loved watching Josh drink his boba. He was pretty great this episode, what with cataloging all his mannequin-related sinfulness. I like him a surprising amount, considering that he's such a MPDG (which in this case stands for Magical Philippino* Dumbass Guy-with-great-pecs)

I was traveling this weekend, so I missed the update. Is it too late to get in the first-cancellation pool?

Sounds like a tough childhood. Like there must have been a lot of uncertainty.

The [mush]Room

It's Notorious is what it is.

I know, and they also elected Rob Ford. They're crazy-nuts up there, and yet they're only about a tenth as crazy as US voters.

I feel like you're vastly overestimating the American electorate. Come on, this isn't Canada.

If it was a base that really cared about "conservative enough" then there's no way Trump would pass their standards. His history of supporting single-payer health care and abortion rights would completely sink him. Given that, it's nearly impossible to see the consistent 30-40% of republican primary voters who are…

"your balls smell so much worse than I feared" was a straight-up Jermaine from Flight of the Concords line. (I guess this would be in an alternate universe where Jermaine had finally accepted his "flexible" sexuality.)