@avclub-f6d4ade4609103f91eb96ba112158dff:disqus  You're serpentining all around my original point.

@avclub-f6d4ade4609103f91eb96ba112158dff:disqus You assumed "blank unqualified universality" when you wrote "this was much more evocative of how rich kids treat each other."

@avclub-f6d4ade4609103f91eb96ba112158dff:disqus Sure, but you could just as easily have linked to any number of sociological studies about the disproportionate cruelty of adolescent girls (or boys).

There's unlimited juice? This party's gonna be off the hook!

Hank Kingsley: He's a gay!
Larry Sanders: What are you, Italian or something?

"I'm a plant."
"I thought they called guys like you fruits."

"Dick Whitman never knew his mother. He knew Archie's wife. I don't think they are the same woman."

@avclub-109b3bbc4c6f753b451ae85d940da213:disqus "murdered by Charles Manson"

"i was just waiting for sally to get blown away by mrs. rosen"

@avclub-f6d4ade4609103f91eb96ba112158dff:disqus First "this was much more evocative of how rich kids treat each other."

Plus he actually has posted on here before, simply under the name "Dan Harmon."

I am not at all surprised. Zack Snyder can suck it!

@avclub-d980b15d49101608dc407770f35b1d75:disqus I think you've gotten toward the heart of it. There's a great Frontline doc (that talks some about ICP and also pro wrestling, Limp Bizkit and others) about acts (often corporate groomed and sponsored,  including ICP!) that convince their followers they're rebellious…

Likely 100% You can hear on multiple WTFs that Louis CK, David Cross and Marc Maron are old, old friends that started out doing standup around the same time in Boston.

@avclub-f8f8c273f326be25421cc62737d24a9e:disqus Milk is way, way better than the other 2 I listed, but it's still fairly by-the-numbers and (I'd say intentionally) middlebrow. It's Van Sant in accessible, crowd-pleasing mode, closer to Good Will Hunting/Finding Forrester than Drugstore Cowboy/Private Idaho and miles…

That baby's name was "Anabelle Lotus" (seriously). Google that, and you can find the mother posting in various ICP threads on the subject AND a radio show where she called in and talked about her plans to sue the hospital for malpractice - it's the most tragic/hilarious (tragilarious?) thing you'll hear all day.

"the one thing that can offer some unity"

I just watched My Left Foot last year. It's a middlebrow, by-the-numbers biopic (like The King's Speech or Milk or Ray) with fantastic performances from DDL and Brenda Fricker (both won Oscars).

Pokemon feels like a very specific HUGE generation gap thing for me. I was probably only a year or 2 out from its target demographic when it hit the states, but people start talking about Pokemon or Digimon or Dragon Ball Z and it's like ancient Aramaic to me (Jack Donaghy's similar confusion on the subject hit very…

Don't necessarily agree with these rankings, but there is a troubling lack of respect around here for the genius of Jon Glaser's acting.