Each individual joke is usually pretty good, but the returns diminish rapidly during a set.  It doesn't help that he laughs after each punchline. 

That was 75% stunt double, though.  So your comment should really be "Well, it did give us a hot stunt double who must have been so bad at acting that her actual job is to pretend to be some of the most beautiful women in the world in dangerous situations so if anyone gets horribly maimed or disfigured, it'll be her."

Normal estimates of "huge" is not acceptable in summer blockbuster land.  IMDB says the budget for Pacific Rim was $180 million.  Assuming the average ticket costs $15 (I don't know how accurate that is), the studio needs 12 million people to see it to break even.*  Pulling in twice the production cost would probably…

According to the character/actor myspace pages (Hey, it's 2005!), Pam's favorite movie of all time was This is Spinal Tap.  Jenna Fischer only kept up the character page conceit for about the first season, it just became Jenna's page after that.  I don't know if they kept up with them for the full run, or if the…

@avclub-64f027640f63616a277e92096313264f:disqus The problem is not that Bert and Ernie are gay.  It's that they have never been presented as gay, and the New Yorker appropriated beloved characters to make their political point.  The criticism is of the New Yorker, not Sesame Street.

I guess we can add gay puppet sex to things that the AV Club gets excited about.  I think sometimes The Onion forgets which one is the parody site. 

Let's keep one thing in mind: this is AV Club, where the grades are meaningless, and everything else is, too. 

Having only just now learned that his character works for the UN, i think a bad 90's haircut makes a lot of sense. 

The great thing about Mad Men is that it lets (or makes) its characters be real, complex, human characters.  Almost all of the Peggy-oriented comments here are about how it's not fair that her life isn't an endless boulevard of green lights because she's so great.  But this season alone, she figuratively stabbed Stan…

Clearly Rolo made Sally uncomfortable, and she reacted.  I don't think she reacted responsibly - which was kind of a theme of the episode, actually, that she was exhibiting traits of the very poor role models she has as parents.  My point is that just because he made her uncomfortable and tried to convince her to do…

@avclub-8a1c882768760c8e996715653ff5c7cb:disqus How about a more recent example from the show: Dick Whitman was full-on forcibly deflowered by a prostitute.  That didn't really generate as much discussion as a similarly-aged Sally being called a tease.  It's an interesting comparison for what some people consider to…

You're misinterpreting his/her/its last sentence.  He's not intending to say "Hey, shit, I'm available."  He was speaking to AV Club, and calling it by his pet name for it. 

Journalist is already a kind of mushy term that is commonly used now because almost nobody in the news industry could accurately be called a reporter. 

That can't have been Russell Brand's first experience with someone laughing at him to his face.  Perhaps he's just so unused to the sound of people actually laughing it disturbed him. 

Spell check like an American, hoser. 

@avclub-71d02d84e9250a644a3b67f818871eac:disqus I'm afraid the only meaningful difference to most of the people in this thread is the number of Y chromosomes.  Apparently a teenage boy trying to kiss a teenage girl and then expressing displeasure at not kissing is evidence of The Rape Culture or something. 

I know most of the people who post on AV Club want to be good little womyn powyr feminists, but that is an absurdly low bar for "forcing."  Like, the Swedish legal system thinks you're stretching the definition of rape way too thin.  Remember the episode of South Park when the kids get all of the adults sent away by…

Great review, Todd.  One minor quibble: typically people hunt birds with birdshot.  Ken would have had much bigger holes in his face if it had been buckshot.

Hey, it's the guy from King of Queens and Two and a Half Men. 

You stole @avclub-749a8e6c231831ef7756db230b4359c8:disqus's joke!  He/she/it wrote it 12 minutes before you did!