I don't know if that's true though, Wad. In season 2, Homer bullies Bart into a mini-golf tournament to spite Flanders, gets Bart involved in a trumped up bogus lawsuit,and drives his half-brother into bankruptcy. In season 3 he lets Bart hang out with gangsters and then fingers him for murder in court. There have…

The Av Club staff all have lives like Homer's but they think they're like Grimes. "Oh, the agonizing struggle of pop culture criticism, it's like Hitler's bunker everyday!"

This is one of the least cartoony episodes though (in later seasons Grimesy would've electrocuted himself and only get a blackened up face and sticky up hair) so how can you blame it for the ridiculous bullshit that came after?

The factory subplot is only there so Homer can say "this is my son Bart. He owns a factory downtown" but it's absolutely worth it.

Yeah, they finally did Peep Show recaps after 5 years of my angry emails and bomb threats, then they pull this Lineman bullshit.

Why do Av Club writers refuse to know about any British television? There's not a lot of it, I'm sure if Todd cleared out the space he's using to store who wrote which episodes of 666 Park Avenue he could find room for Graham Linehan.

Well I never said he was a miracle worker.

The IT Crowd is a funnier show than Parks And Recreation. It's also better than Ulysses the book, mediocre president, and dirty fighting Greek asshole. So there.

Fuck Chris O'Dowd's crowded schedule of bullshit, it's all about Richard Ayoade's crowded schedule of great stuff. Guy's the next Woody Allen, only without that nervous fella who's always in his movies.

I think there's a lot more child actresses than child actors, probably because parents will have their six year old daughters take acting lessons and send them to stage school and whatever, but they're less likely to do that with the sons, lest they turn out to be one of the gays.

I always thought it was that Dutch thought being a Daddy figure was a good seduction technique and his best method for getting women, and vastly overestimates how good he is at it. He's too insecure to go for the straight ahead approach and hope the woman will actually like him.

That's true. I once challenged Zmf to a popularity contest for some reason, asked people to vote in the comments for who they liked better. I was pretty confident I was gonna win, but instead everybody voted for him, and absolutely nobody voted for me. It was embarrassing. I said I was gonna leave the site forever,…

Gee, you didn't even wait for us to ask. You're gonna straight up let us know, whether we care or not.

I imagine the people who think the success of podcasts have nothing to do with their hosts also watch Arrested Development and think it would be much better if they got rid of that Michael character. "He doesn't even do anything wacky! Gob should be the star!"

Yeah, fair enough, I didn't actually know that (knowledge pretty limited to the movie). I think that's what it comes down to, if you don't know much about Carlos you're just gonna call him the thing that you thing will cause least offense. I'd say the reviewer was more trying to cover his bases then making a political…

There's no version of the scene on youtube in english for some reason, but the transcript from imdb goes:

I know it's not the way it's done, but why couldn't Maron just cast someone else to play himself? When they made 127 Hours nobody was expecting the actual one arm guy to play himself, because he's not a professional actor. This show has potential, but putting a guy who can't deliver a stamps.com pitch with conviction…

Yeah, it was all downhill after What's New Pussycat.

Girl's so fine even Terrance Malick couldn't cut her out of a movie! Heard he chopped a 3 minute shot of the wind to give her an extra close up!

Eh, when you asked the question I guess I thought you legitimately wanted an answer, and I think I explained the difference in perception between the two pretty well. But obviously you didn't take in a word of what I said, and you're just looking to argue with someone. I don't want to argue over who was worse, Carlos…