I get that everyone hates Greg, and I get why, and that, for the most part, the show wants us to.  But I did appreciate that in this episode, Joan still came off as kind of selfish for ending the relationship.  I mean, she all but said she thought she was more important than the Army.  That's one of Mad Men's greatest…

She first mentioned it as Caroline Decker in Mixology Certification.  It was only a minor plot point there that she was concerned about already having the next four years of her life planned out based upon her major of choice. 

@avclub-ff8c98954c73e327c9173da1c156ca9c:disqus , Harry's slide form doofy, likeable upper Midwestern (the only Midwest Hollywood knows exists) guy to unconvincingly slick entertainment industry douche has been happening ever since he got the job.  Remember sunburned Harry bragging about selling the jai alai special?

I agree with @avclub-7833d176ad6f6dde5efc95848e6f47a8:disqus, product placement has never bothered me.  In fact, if they stopped drinking "cola" and started drinking exclusively Pepsi products, it would not only be inoffensive to me, it would make more sense.  Don't most colleges have exclusive contracts with soft…

I don't know if this has come up in any of the 2400 other comments, but Community had the best ratings of the night for NBC.  Sure, The Office was a rerun, but everything else was new, and there were no NCAA Tournament games to skew things.   Here are the numbers:

@whataworkout:disqus I have heard this specific criticism of the show from season 1: Weiner and co. are not old enough to have lived through the time period they depict, and so they essentially regurgitate what they have been told.  It's Gen X-ers telling the Baby Boomer version of history to a Gen-Y audience.

Wow, a lot of you people are How I Met Your Mother fans.  I would put it and Big Bang Theory in the same category: I can watch syndicated episodes while I eat dinner, but the only reason I care about BBT is because it goes head-to-head with Community.  I really couldn't care less about HIMYM.  It doesn't seem like it…

I think you can officially say you spend too much time on the AVC comment sections if you know each other's alma maters/rooting interests. 

@Fraggins:disqus , I think you are confusing some things here.  Choosing not to be part of a religious group IS free exercise of religion, as is atheism, agnosticism, or anything else that some might call being non-religious.  Practicing your beliefs, no matter what they are, is freedom of religion.  This is the same…

I don't think we're disagreeing, Frodo Baggins.  My only point is that freedom of religion and freedom from religion are not the same thing.  To use your example, consider the difference between freedom of speech and freedom from speech; they are obviously not the same thing.

The contentious part of this issue is absolutely NOT a women's health issue; it is a religious freedom issue.  The underlying policy of requiring prescription birth control to be part of a standard insurance policy is essentially non-controversial, as it is the law in many states.  Those states, however, have…

She testified about her and her student organization's desire to prevent her from having to continue to pay for her own contraception by forcing a religious university to do something that church leaders consider antithetical to the teachings of the church.  I think she's certainly welcome to testify and campaign for…

@OhthePossibilities, the disestablishment clause (forbidding official religion) is not freedom from religion; it allows all people to practice their beliefs as they choose without having the state intervene.  Freedom from religion is like the burqa ban in Quebec; it prevents people from being exposed to the sight of a…

Freedom of religion and freedom from religion cannot coexist.  If you have one, you don't have the other.  The US very clearly protects freedom of religion and not freedom from religion.

In terms of the larger issue, I don't really understand how calling a single person a name (Fluke or Palin) is insulting to all women, but that's how the game is played with preferred groups.

Definitely for the worse, although it does allow Seth Meyers to bear the full weight of his and his staff's poor writing.  Remember the prime time Update specials before the election in '08?  Those were brutal, but they're cheap as dirt, so I fear we will see them again. 

Well that explains why he would laugh; it does not explain why the audience should.

I like Jack White as much as the next guy, but he did look a bit like
he fell out of a Tim Burton movie about a country-western transsexual. 

Sims' reviews are not hard to figure out.  He's totally gay for Bill Hader, and he hates Kristen Wiig.  Lots of Hader, good grade; lots of Wiig, bad grade.  That's as sophisticated as he gets. 

As far as conspiracy theories go, that one isn't so far-fetched.  It's a movie about the president's most marketable accomplishment, the centerpiece of his campaign, and the very first thing they announced was the release date.  The glee with which the Obama administration tried to help, along with that mid-October…