You can also tell it to translate the English gibberish captions into gibberish in other languages. The result in French is a little disappointing, but it does have one great line: "Le livre des haricots de Mandy."

The "and everyone else" part is what made it work for me. Jen just getting humiliated would be the thing you were cringingly expecting all along, and it's so inevitable that she can only be saved if everything else goes to shit around her, and the show finds the perfect way to make that happen— we've been so focused…

My sister has an Italian friend who, pretty early on in a relationship, was sitting in the park with her boyfriend when he turned to her and said "Ti amo" (I love you). He'd never told her that before, and he was not the most romantic guy so this was a big deal; she didn't say anything, just beamed at him in a way…

Oh God, me too. I was sort of aware that the ending couldn't really be "Douglas is cool with it and they live happily ever after," because they're not going to let the character be permanently redeemed like that. But I figured that just meant the romance would break down due to Douglas freaking out over some unrelated…

@avclub-23678bec1cebcf7cab6ea56b2ec203cf:disqus See other comments below— I don't think the complaint is so much that the storyline was offensive, as that the way they played it out just wasn't particularly funny and was less interesting than where it briefly seemed to be going.
Also, I don't know what point you're…

I just noticed that YouTube has an "automatic closed captioning" feature, which tries to do voice recognition, and… well, it tries:

I just figured they lingered on that line because the montage is showing a series of lifeless things— the RV, the chicken sheds, a barbed-wire fence.

There's a Shelley poem for the toaster too.

@avclub-9e3b631d801e19a9e92a405ea759e09f:disqus I never said Ted wasn't an ass, I just thought jamespope's description of events was a little odd.

That, plus if he did die, that might have crossed the line in terms of what Skyler could rationalize. The way she played that scene, she was almost falling apart at the thought of what she'd caused— she only pulled it together when he responded to her in a way that she could interpret as "please don't ever give me…

For some reason I really love Cranston's reading of "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair"— he doesn't stress the last word at all, he just lets it lie there and moves on.

Good God man, if that's what you call "spazzing out" and "lying", you must be a paragon of rationality and self-control compared to most of us. Ted was being threatened by organized crime enforcers in circumstances he didn't understand; he tried to get away from them, tripped and ended up with a fucking broken neck.…

The watercolor analogy is admittedly an exaggeration— my point was just that it's a term with a meaning beyond the literal meaning of its component words. And I disagree about the use of French vs. English; in conversation and in writing, it's my experience that English-speaking cartoonists and comics critics…

"Clear-line precision" is a poor choice of words to describe Peyo's art. Even though you probably just meant his drawing isn't messy, "clear line" has a specific meaning in cartooning: using a uniform line width, like you get with a technical pen, and not using crosshatching. Hergé and Joost Swarte are the most…

@avclub-d4ab2732ed8ac6a4b2d9734cf4c851d2:disqus Indeed, which is why I get a little miffed when people throw Watchmen into the category of "Alan Moore using other people's characters" (see for instance Sean O'Neal's latest pissy "Moore is a hypocrite" piece). What he took from the Charlton characters was what was least…

@avclub-4a51fda79bbd54b4e7327dd6559b6c4d:disqus He's not going to be an adult. This is his whole thing; he likes trolling, pretty much every single thing he says is to get a rise out of people, just take a look at his comment history. Sadly, not feeding the troll doesn't make much difference, he does plenty of…

I think I'm more able to tolerate the cringe moments in Freaks and Geeks because there are a lot of major characters— I don't feel like I'm trapped in any one point of view.

I had three dates in high school. The third, in junior year, was my first kiss and immediately turned into a 10-year relationship, assisted by an insanely overconfident hyper-romantic campaign on my part that (for a while) distracted her from how immature I was.

Since several other people have raised all of the above points in threads that O'Neal responded to, and O'Neal has rather heatedly addressed anything and everything except those points, I think it's fair to conclude that he is aware of them but doesn't care to acknowledge or discuss them, and would rather go on…

@avclub-ecbdad96460f85751944de9d6c2d50fe:disqus I'm not sure what you mean by "approachable", if you think it's something that "fantasy/sci-fi" would not normally be— but if you're defining it strictly in terms of whether there are more fight scenes than fairy-tale elements, then most of the original Hellboy comics…