Before Bono starts wailing, before Adam Clayton's bass kicks in to make it a real barn burner, Larry Mullen's snare rolls chills up and down my spine on Sunday Bloody Sunday and then Edge's guitar knifes in with that high, plaintive whine. Ugh. The intro to this song is so good it should be illegal. It's by far my…

Saw Dolly perform that recently. It was great. Almost as great as I Will Always Love You. I mean, it's overdone and overplayed, but she just SLAYED it. Her voice is impressive as hell. She somehow still sounds remarkably fresh and young.

The one where he impersonates his dad makes me laugh almost as hard as the mom does. "Go do something you hate! Being miserable builds character."
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Seems like the war on Christmas starts earlier every year.

Despite all the "our love is epic" stuff with Logan, I was comforted when the writers never lost sight of the fact that the real central relationship on the show was father/daughter. I wish it would have stayed on the air for a lot longer than it did, but if it had to end, it picked a hell of a note to go out on with…

I only want a kid so I can sing "Here goes the hair/There goes the hair/And where is Harry Truman?/He's dead in the ground/He's dead in the ground/Dead dead dead dead dead in the ground!" as I braid her hair.

Holmes Osbourne was always fantastic as the well-off dad of a precocious teen. He is also the father in Bring It On and That Thing You Do.

I also love the dad's frustration with raising a smartass six year old. I've written about this strip before in an AV Club article about the comic, but one of my favourites is the one where Calvin is being impatient with how long it takes for the charcoal barbecue to be ready and his dad tells him that sometimes, the…

I like Cady's parents, too.

Nah, this is about right. Every year I hope my dad gets me a SIG-Sauer .380 for my birthday and every year it's just a card signed by my mom with $50 in it.

Some men just want to watch the wood burn.

I am not one to cry at television, but when Buffy's mom dies, I BAWLED. Buffy and her mom didn't always have the greatest relationship, but it felt oddly real. Some quipping, but not the mile-a-minute zingers you get on Gilmore Girls or Veronica Mars. Joyce was often mad at Buffy and Buffy was frequently annoyed by…

Right from the pilot! "No sack dinners tonight. Tonight, we eat like the lower middle class to which we aspire. Fire up the 'bachie!"

I got a Fametracker notification for this!?

If you run your train of thought backwards, you hear a recipe for a really ripping lentil soup.

Reverse Cyclology?

My feelings for Sublime can be summed up by Kurt Braunohler's joke about "What I Got."

Well, I mean, that guy has to live in Ottawa now. So joke's on him!

Sometimes, the baby shits in the bathwater. And then, they both gotta go. NOT IN MY HOUSE, BABY!

Green is the colour,
Football is the game,
We're all together
And winning is our aim