It sounds like you have some real hard won success, but I recoil at saying Obama is FDR. Sure, he's FDR if you completely ignore economics, which was the main thing about FDR. FDR used his economic disaster to wrest power away from the richest and create most of the social programs that we still rely on today. Obama…

Like the Wire, people complain about certain seasons of Eastbound, but by moving it around like they did, they always kept it fresh. Season 1 is perfect, but so is season 4, in a completely different way.

That's interesting, because I find it far easier to like Kenny Powers than David Brent. Brent is a feckless little weasel, Kenny Powers is a bombastic douche, and I guess there's something far more fun for me in watching the second guy. David Brent makes you uncomfortable, Kenny Powers powers through life with the…

Hopefully. I haven't watched the show yet (i wait a few weeks then binge-watch) but if it's anything like every other Danny McBride character, they're not supposed to be heroic. Let's say the show was about two ignorant/narcissistic black guys trying to take down a powerful white man.*That* actually sounds racist.

everything arnold has done since 1994 has been a vanity project

Sometimes I feel like this, like it's all a just trivial way to signal "i'm smart" for people who aren't, the coexist bumper sticker equivalent of nerd-dom—then I think a bit more, and realize that if they truly are idiots, then there's some value to humanity's inevitable idiot population thinking science memes are…

na, Eric Andre is funny

Unless you're winnowing down "genius" to only include writing/visonary geniuses like Larry David, Christopher Guest, and Armando Iannucci, I'm not sure how you keep McBride out of the discussion. As far as a comic actor with a brilliantly hilarious comic persona? How many modern comic actors would you put above him?…

i get your point, but I also think this is because of the Mulan connection. If we end up ignoring some democrat's vaguely racist review of "A Bug's Life," then i'll come back here and admit it, you were right

As a mainstream republican, I doubt he's actually in favor of any taxes that don't go to the military

Foot Fist Way shouldve made it. Royal Tenenbaums and Adaptation are two of my all-time favorite movies, but they aren't better *comedies* than Wedding Crashers, Old School, or Talledaga Nights, none of which even made the list. Nothing should matter in a comedy (when judging it as a comedy) besides how funny it is.…

Can we talk about Charles Portis for a second. Just me and you. How fucking good is Charles Portis? Dog of the South!? Get out of here.

I don't disagree (Cabin in the woods should be here), but I'd put OBWAT right there with the rest of the movies that probably doesnt belong on this list. Do people actually laugh at O Brother? The Coens are hilarious, but that movie is not especially funny. It's a cute, well made movie, with great music, but there are…

Comeon, In The Loop is at least clearly a comedy, and not a cute lighthearted drama

Scott Pilgrim is alright, but it's crazy to have it above Superbad

helix was exciting before it actually aired, and they said their influences were The Thing and Portal

is this sarcasm about Obama fixed everything?

Man, i just think it's a little ridiculous to take the normal anxiety in being smitten by an attractive person, and saying there's something insidious about that. Stumbling over your words, being clumsy. A real feminist remains in total control, unstirred until they are given verbal consent. You talk about how I'm…

I'm not sure about this. SF2 was the thesis statement for the entire genre of 2D fighters. Post SF2, it hasn't just been layers of visual lacquer. There are all sorts of game mechanics that have been implemented in subsequent titles, from 3rd strike, to SF4, Smash Bros., Marvel, Skull Girls—these games all have at…

Thats all true, but I definitely don't interact with women in a way that assumes I am entitled to leer at them. I'm neurotic enough that I see a beautiful woman and whole thing is dueling arguments between being floored by this girl and my brain trying to figure out how bad I should feel about the whole thing. The…