Yeah, the fact that Bubbles sounds and looks mentally handicapped, but is in fact relatively-super smart is the joke.

Kids and people in general are really ignorant about history, science, math, politics, and well anything really.  What percentage of the population seriously thinks the Earth is only 2013 years old?  Probably a very sad, but significant percentage of people.  

Way to give a positive review to something that lost money AV club.  Don't you idiots know that you write your review after you see how much money a movie made.  Jeez, what fucking amateurs.

Yep, just keep powering through those syllables regardless of how silly you think you sound.

I have to admit, I've watched up until here twice now (and all the way through once), and I'm still somewhat confused about the whole wall situation.  I think I was fine with it until the Chinese came in, now it's just too convoluted for my small brain.  I feel like it's me trying to understand the plot to Star Wars…

I try to add in '.. even with computers' to a conversation whenever I can and it's usually met with 1000-yard stares.  That should be a more common place quote.

I don't think the 'tolerable' and 'unbearable' descriptions mean anything anymore.  Further, I don't think there's any rules about whether something on the left is actually to be considered good or not.  It's like it's just a list of 7 or 8 things that exist right now (or 2 or 3 weeks ago).

I think most of the world would consider southern democrats to be pretty conservative.

I guess any war could be described as being about some entity's 'rights'.  Technically WW2 was about nation's rights (in particular, the nation of Germany's 'right' to invade any country they wanted and try to exterminate groups of people they didn't like).

You just have to not restrict your slave requirements so much.  Then you're fine.

I think he does both, doesn't he?

Jesus, an article with Ayn Rand in the title is up for over 3 hours and only has 27 comments.  I was looking forward to some heated debate.

Dude, have you ever done any public speaking (teaching, seminar, wedding toast, etc) or written any sort of report in any form?  One of the most important things is identifying your audience and tailoring your language and speaking style to that audience.  That's like the first thing they teach you in any writing and…

Intelligent people consider their expected audience when they decide how to speak.  If you're so much smarter than all the proles on here, you'd realize that and also realize that you need to form sentences that don't make you come across as a douchebag.

The appreciation of something being subjective and having an audience for everything are clearly not the same thing.  I'd hope that distinction was obvious. 

Holy crap I am dumb.  I seriously just got that running joke.  And I was wondering why the doctor hadn't said anything overly literal.

Yeah, maybe it's because I'm in a bad mood, but I can't get on board with this snark since it doesn't even make sense.  (Why don't we all just pretend it's 1984 for shits and giggles?)

@avclub-f2b489efd726db529335e31c83509c73:disqus You wanna watch Spartacus I think.

@avclub-7afe5ca4ab9834311e874dfc1124f077:disqus The band was definitely in on it since they were the ones with the crossbows.

I kinda think that a metal object that size, essentially free-falling onto Earth from an orbit close to the moon (and why didn't both ships fall into the moon?), would wipe out a bit more than one part of a city.