Thank god you said that, @avclub-f3165be83d2dd835403b494eb7185ce2:disqus - specifically calling out Maroon 5. My wife keeps bugging me: "Why don't you like them?"  I keep telling her, I like the band fine, I'm sure they're a great bunch of guys, but I just want to kill whoever recorded/engineered/produced their songs.…

"Let's keep me from killin' this guy and takin' his shit."  There is the entire essence of the #Occupy movement boiled down to one succinct phrase.

Exactly.  While watching the Grammys, when any category is presented, I will almost always give my wife two answers: which of the nominees will win, and which one deserves the win.  The two nearly never match, but it's always easy to pick the winner based on sales alone, or sales + hype.  (Is Lana Del Rey nominated…

No lie- what kinds of strip clubs are you going to where you don't need a goat?

I'll watch, mainly as a point of compromise between myself and my wife:  She argues that I need to listen to Top-40 radio so I know what our kids are listening to; I argue that listening to good music (lots of classics, indie rock, etc) while the kids are around is far more important, and that listening to Top-40 with…

Oh, god- you mean that one where they played the acoustic version of "Times Like These", and Chick Corea apparently couldn't get a handle on the 7/4 opening?  That was just painful to watch.

I loved this episode; it was pretty much the only episode I saw after giving up some point in season 2, I think.  (There was a time where they were actually investigating several crimes at a time, which always seemed way more interesting to me.  Still love the "murder" they were investigating which wound up to be just…

I hate to admit it, but far more than "Rounders", what gets quoted at the poker games I play tends to be:

Wow.  Is there anyone who actually was able to force themselves to stop smiling while watching that for the first time?  It manages to hit such a level of ridiculousness that it becomes it's own brand of awesome.

@avclub-820dfc14c4fcd3f48cd26fcf60cdfa63:disqus Yeah, I guess you're right.  It just seems like it was longer because ABC wasn't actively trying to hide the show.

I always referred to it as "Scrubs [Med-School]" myself.  It seemed blatantly obvious to me that it was a spin-off, whether ABC wanted to admit it or not.  Looking at it as a spin-off also allows you to laugh at NBC: they tried so many times to kill the show, and yet when it moves over to ABC, it gets two more seasons…

I was pretty shocked by that, too.  It seemed like Scrubs had been on for a while before I started watching it, and for a while I was watching both new episodes and in syndication, but it was shocking to me that Ben's story was so early in the run.  As well-defined as the characters were, and with what could typically…

I declare this [the comments from @avclub-22eda830d1051274a2581d6466c06e6c:disqus ,  @avclub-620982009915db2a0b4a49e224bad30c:disqus ,  @avclub-b7ee6f5f9aa5cd17ca1aea43ce848496:disqus , and  @avclub-0f0d67e214f9fef69b278e3d08114da9:disqus ] to be the greatest bit written cooperatively by AV Club commenters.  Congrats,…

It hit an all-time low, though, when Vice Principal Screech had to go before the school board for showing all the girls his "monster".

I admit that I'd not even heard of St Vincent until just now, but this has encouraged me to check out the album.  So, as far as making an Elvis Costello reference to bring attention to their material, I'd say it worked in this case.

I think we're forgetting that inspiration for now bits of pop-culture discovery can come from unlikely sources.  My wife absolutely loved watching "The Voice" (I'll admit that it was better than any other reality competition I've seen in recent years), but it was thanks to that show that I learned about Dia Frampton,…

That's the same line of logic that has a Claymore (sword, not landmine) hanging on my living-room wall.  Somebody carrying a gun
breaks in, and you meet them with a gun?  Well, I figure the best that can happen is a draw.  Somebody with a gun breaks in, and sees you grab a broadsword off your wall and come running at…

Is he doing that thing where you jump up and kick your heels together behind you?  While holding a hatchet and a Bowie knife?  Because, could this seriously get any more awesome?

The first one's a chore to get through the first time (especially if you grew up watching 2, 4, and 6), but goes down much smoother on repeat viewings.  ESPECIALLY if you're watching the Director's Cut with the star field prologue before any logos or anything.

Lol…good call.  I'd go back and edit it to sound a little less "wtf do people see in that movie anyway"-y, but maybe I should have just made it clear that the Board of Trustees, and they didn't so much "shut us down" as just simply tell us that we couldn't use the church's name in advertising (or even in the name of…