My favorite line on the use of "retard" (or "retarded") belongs to Mr. Colbert's esteemed colleague Steve Carell in the Office:  "You don't call retarded people 'retards.'  You call your friends 'retards' when they're doing something retarded."

My favorite line on the use of "retard" (or "retarded") belongs to Mr. Colbert's esteemed colleague Steve Carell in the Office:  "You don't call retarded people 'retards.'  You call your friends 'retards' when they're doing something retarded."

Also like the tag line for a tampon ad.

Also like the tag line for a tampon ad.

"Should you be so lucky like St. Sebastian,
Preferring the ache to the aspirin,
swooning as they shoot the arrows through your narrow chest?
Stripping naked in the Circus Maximus,
with a martyr-eating lioness,
bartering with flesh for a little pain?
Things like this give sado-masochism a bad name!
When your lucky like St.…

"Should you be so lucky like St. Sebastian,
Preferring the ache to the aspirin,
swooning as they shoot the arrows through your narrow chest?
Stripping naked in the Circus Maximus,
with a martyr-eating lioness,
bartering with flesh for a little pain?
Things like this give sado-masochism a bad name!
When your lucky like St.…

Hard to say, for me, since I never really bought into that critique.  When the Simpsons was in its golden age, I used to contrast the then-current seasons (4-9) with the first season or two and I attributed the show's improvements to a handful of factors:

Hard to say, for me, since I never really bought into that critique.  When the Simpsons was in its golden age, I used to contrast the then-current seasons (4-9) with the first season or two and I attributed the show's improvements to a handful of factors:

If you can have them any time, why do they call them "breakfast treats"?

If you can have them any time, why do they call them "breakfast treats"?

I haven't been reading this, so maybe the out-of-context quote has thrown me off, but is Scott's "No more Avengers" meant to be a callback to Wanda's "No more mutants"?

I haven't been reading this, so maybe the out-of-context quote has thrown me off, but is Scott's "No more Avengers" meant to be a callback to Wanda's "No more mutants"?

Just thinking about Paul Rudd in that voting booth makes me giggle.  It's another one of those Homer Simpson moments where the character kinda ends up being too stupid to breathe (seriously, how do you fuck up THAT much in the voting booth?)  But something about it — the way it interrupts the serious emotion of the…

Just thinking about Paul Rudd in that voting booth makes me giggle.  It's another one of those Homer Simpson moments where the character kinda ends up being too stupid to breathe (seriously, how do you fuck up THAT much in the voting booth?)  But something about it — the way it interrupts the serious emotion of the…

Sorry you didn't like S4 of P&R.  Not every show can live up to the high comedy standards of "most seasons of SNL."

Sorry you didn't like S4 of P&R.  Not every show can live up to the high comedy standards of "most seasons of SNL."

I'm not sure if Meredith hasn't seen much of this show, or if that remark was just recognizing that this show is longer central to pop culture, but either way that comment struck me as odd.  "We'd never associate" just seems striking to me, since for so many people, for so many years, that's EXACTLY what they thought…

I'm not sure if Meredith hasn't seen much of this show, or if that remark was just recognizing that this show is longer central to pop culture, but either way that comment struck me as odd.  "We'd never associate" just seems striking to me, since for so many people, for so many years, that's EXACTLY what they thought…

GET OUT OF MY HEAAD!

GET OUT OF MY HEAAD!