Well, that was a a pretty sad and uncomfortable interview, on all accounts.

I don't know if this is just me but it seems dumb and futile to describe an album as "similar to the White Album."  That album known for not having any one particular sound.  It's basically three guys recording solo projects and the Beatles happen to be their back-up band.  Then every once in a while they threw Ringo…

YEAH, or Happiness is a Warm Gun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  (Kurt Cobain committed suicide by shooting himself.)

Okay, here comes some prejudice.

Overall, I really liked the episode but I wasn't as enamored with the end.  The revelation about Arlo seemed contrived and a bit unearned.  I was also annoyed by the sudden appearance of Winona.  This season was all about psychopaths, double-crossing and a bunch of badass dudes.  Those former two threads were not…

More Hyden and less TV articles, please.  Although I did not get the “The Thing That Should Not Be" ref though.  I'm assuming it's a song on St Anger which I guess I could look up.

I totally agree with you that it's a really solid, enjoyable solid album.  I'm annoyed by the fact that music reviews so often have to start off with a long diatribe about the "hype" and their take on it. (Regarding any band.)  So yeah, they got some rave reviews which we now know that you're aware of…congrats! …

For some reason, it's just something I've always been aware of.  I noticed at a very early age that PG-13 meant you were allowed to say "fuck" exactly once.

This isn't a knock on the AV Club but I don't understand why this is news considering that - as you basically point out - it's been the rating for most would-be blockbusters and superhero movie for the past 25 years.  Did anyone really expect WB to take that much of a chance on this cash cow?

I just doubt that it was conceived as a racist ad but I almost wonder if people saw the creative and thought it was more racist to point it out than not point it out.

Well, this may be a useless argument because I don't have the hard numbers of course, but if I had to take a guess, I'd guess that it's a very large percentage.

Does anyone remember that Nivea controversy from last year?  http://www.washingtonpost.c… (Not sure if anyone outside of advertising really cared about this.)

I would've loved to be in this pitch meeting "Re: Candidates for sequels/reboots" when someone brought this up between movie versions of "Perfect Strangers" and "My Two Dads."

True.  I think the lesson is that if you take white guilt and being politically correct too far it's almost like you cross a line and become unintentionally racist yourself.

Ohhhhhhhhhh, okay.

I'm absolutely shocked and horrified that these two previous titans of integrity have engaged in this type of behavior.

You seem to have a lot of animosity towards Groupon, which makes me me
wonder if you work in this industry. I do and I don't really feel that
strongly about them one way or another.  I know that the ad agency that
came up with the idea also has a reputation for thinking that they are
extremely clever so I could see…

Since you brought it up, can we talk about this Groupon thing again for a second?

I was pretty young when the original came out and while I  remember liking it, I also remember that I didn't fully "get" it.

Yeah, it's kind of shitty that so much stock is put into weekly box office numbers.  It seems like executives are make decisions based on movies that will have a big first week return because then it seems like a "win." (and a perceived win is more important than an actual win…not to mention making a good movie.