Twisted Fantasy is a stunning masterpiece and people need to tell their snide Kanye-bashing to the barrel of a shotgun.

The characters on Larry Sanders are human. I mean, if you find humans unlikeable, I totally understand, but I also hate you. Because you're human.

And just like that, in typical AV Club manner, the thread turned into a laundry list of people's favourite Mallrats quotes.

You should've stopped asking for logical consistency the minute Spike Jonze's character showed up in England to contest his firing. I'm not saying that to trash the show, just there's a whole lot of absurdity here. I really enjoyed the way improbable plot points kind of piled up in this episode.

Either a tattered ass copy of Donald Duck or a tattered ass copy of The Get-Along Gang.

Barry's puffin has gone red and is hiding under a pirate hat.

The film is funny and good. I'd respond to Wino's argument, but it's just ad hominem about how people who disagree with him are Morris sycophants. Not really a great basis for debate.

Did anyone whip a battery at the screen?

When I refer to British journalism, I'm solely talking about Nuts.

Taibbi has made the point that a shortcoming of the GS article was that it gave people the impression that he thought GS was conspiratorially orchestrating all this shit, rather than just being present and heavily contributing through its own non-conspiratorial nefarious doings.

The Exile is still worth reading, even if I can take a pass on all the Mark Ames shit.

What business does anyone have criticizing Taibbi's writing in a world where Thomas Friedman receives any degree of respect?

I actually got a little misty when she was rocketing through the sky and the Gil Scott Heron lyrics started up.

I don't even try to defend the things Betty does. I just think she's a barbie doll trying to live in the real world and freaking the fuck out. I mean, she desperately wanted to continue telling her woes to a children's therapist. She's not made for this world.

I like Betty.

Don didn't go around saying the N-word because he wasn't a racist. Other people have done and said racist things. People were just figuring out how to hide their prejudices in passive-aggression and "dog whistle" rhetoric at the time. That's why the old secretary's overt racism was so out of place.

Betty's done a ton of monstrous stuff, but I feel like the show treads a line where you can still empathize with her. Miller's point is also a good one, and I think acting like this is her worst offense has more to do with liking Carla.

I'd be interested to know how the show could successfully, ahem, integrate a substantial black character with out breaking its tone or reality. The civil rights movement was a huge part of that time, and it's been reflected in the show, but it's not a show about civil rights. It's about people working at an ad agency…

Well, as silly as it might get, the main thrust of the article was as follows:

That season of the Wire that was all about how terrible unions are. Remember when the shop steward sliced that girls face up?