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"Women's mouths are not for the exit of words, but for the entrance of… dicks."

This episode deserved higher than a B-. It felt like classic Sunny: the gang splitting up to attack an issue, Charlie dressing up in a costume, Frank using a flamboyant alias, and everything, in the end, coming, at Paddy's of course, to basically nothing. The gang is no closer to understanding art than they were to

This sketch is a clever analog for powerful but tasteless white men who sit around conference rooms at major Hollywood studios judging and deciding how best to sell women like Amy Schumer.

You guys are too harsh; this episode was hysterical

This episode didn't feel like it was trying to be a classic Simpsons episode. For the first time, The Simpsons seemed comfortable in a new guise.

"If only he'd rocked out to Poison, things might've turned out differently." Great parody, and made me remember how much the original ending broke my heart.

I prefer Ford's poetic grandeur to Hawks' playful sexual politics, but I can totally understand your assessment. The Jeffrey Hunter-Vera Miles subplot, and especially the climactic fistfight, always slows the drama in The Searchers, but I've accepted it as essential to Ford's cinematic universe, which always includes

He couldn't save Martha, but he can still save Debbie.

But remember, even after Ethan atones and spares Debbie, he's still denied access to the house, like Moses banned eternally from the Promise Land, which in the west was the home, shelter, civilization.

When he holds Debbie up and looks at her, he probably sees Martha in her, the woman he loved and lost, and changes his mind.

I think he's more the antagonist in Red River and the anti-hero in The Searchers.

That's because he was a director-for-hire most of his career. Not every script the studio gave him was amazing. John Ford made some mediocre movies and Hitchcock made a few genuinely crappy ones. That doesn't tarnish their legacy.

Or Dean Martin

I haven't laughed that hard since I was a little girl, thank you.

Scissor me timber!

Kazan definitely utilized the movie to defend his betrayal of friends and colleagues. There's no doubting that. However, sometimes one must separate the artist from the art. The director's personal history notwithstanding, On The Waterfront is about a man who was courageous enough to stand up against corruption and

Bill Nye The Science Guy —- Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill!

AV Club has definitely been overselling this season of Boardwalk Empire. Entertainment Weekly called it "Bored-Walk Empire" in their latest issue. As cheesy as that sounds, I have to agree. It's been soooo boring! Last season was uninspired, but the thrill of despising Gip Rossetti at least made the show

Groundhog Day is the closest Hollywood has come in decades to its Golden Age roots. Not only does the movie blend magical-realist plotting with a small town setting like Frank Capra was famous for; it's also a star-vehicle romantic comedy that approaches the profundity and spirituality of European art films. What is

I was aware that the title was referring to Flowers For Algernon. I however admit that I forgot to make the connection between that Simpsons episode and the play. I stand corrected, sir.