Hey who needs to pay attention to what happens on the show when there's snark to be made

She was. College and alternative stations were all over Tuesday Night Music Club.

As a reader (though not poster) of alt.tv.simpsons I almost certainly read O'Neal's comment in 1997. EXTREME

Mall Week was pretty good!

Hanson could actually play, and turned into a credible power-pop band.

I disagree with the argument here because I see the badness of 1997 not as the nadir of music history, but as a recovery from the nadir of music history, which stretched from 1994 to 1996, when the music world was ruled by Pearl Jam and Dr Dre knockoffs and wannabes. Sean says, 'whatever “alternative rock” used to…

My god look at all that content; not a Great Job Internet for miles. New Cult Canon, Gateway to Geekery, The Hater, and entire book section…

I'm sure we can expect more great content like this once AV Club switches to Kinja!

So that means the comments on my Legacy AV Club account won't be ported over, right? What happens to them?

That reminds me of Usenet. Not a good thing!

And they're trying to pit Xers and Millenials against each other so they can maintain their dominance in a moment when they should be dying off. Don't fall for it, fellow post-boomers!

Yet Bill Simmons still ranks him as one of the top 10 centers of all time

'Evenflow' is about the plight of the homeless?

Seeing a Verlaines ref in the comments section made the day a lot brighter.

Wait, Wiley Wiggins' acting in Dazed and Confused was bad? (I'm not watching that video to find out what clip they chose.) I think he gave an uncomfortably authentic performance, even if you deduct points for him simply being an awkward adolescent portraying an awkward adolescent.

At the time I thought the Spice Girls were a nice and necessary break from the 4th-generation grunge / 12th generation Boyz II Men knockoffs that were all over radio. I've always thought 1996-2000 was pretty much the final golden era of Top 40–even a lot of the boy bands that sprouted up in the Spice's Girls' wake had…

In 1991 a lot of radio stations played a version of Styx's 'Show Me the Way' spliced with speeches about the Gulf War.

And indeed the jokes about Pat's gender didn't begin until (I think) the second skit. The premise initially was simply 'annoying co-worker'.

Prediction? PAIN.

Yeah I'd agree with that. The excuse I've heard at my university is that engineering/comp science/etc have to take soooo many credits in their majors that they don't have time for electives. On top of that the school, supposedly in order to reduce student debt loads, is trying to reduce the overall number of credits…