He hasn't done a broad caricature of Muslims (at least, not until this film). He is, however, a raging Islamophobe and a general bigot. His comments on Arabs and Muslims have been pretty disgusting, and of course there was the incident where he filmed a Palestinian in Borat, intentionally mistranslated what the guy…

In its prime - which I still maintain means season 1; the show peaked for me with the first season finale - 30 Rock was a funny, character-anchored show about people who were trying to run a sketch comedy on NBC. That premise was tossed out the window long ago - along with the key character dynamics that were…

Only they didn't do a story about the Occupy movement; they only (barely, in the most circuitous and superficial way possible) did a story about rich people being nervous about poor people being pissed at rich people - which isn't a story that's unique to Occupy at all. Anger at Wall Street started spiking back in '08…

I definitely enjoyed reading Marcus's previous books. There's no one else writing the kind of stuff he's writing, and the language he uses crackles with a kind of energy you don't find elsewhere.

I wouldn't be surprised if the logic went something like this: "Chris Brown is hot/making headlines right now, the simple controversy of putting this guy on the same track with the woman he beat will have to sell something - let's go for it!"

Isn't the entire point of "For Our Consideration" to troll the AV Club readership?

@avclub-79557cb93066f4470b8cee6e9110f757:disqus - again, I'm not saying that Tolkien invented racism, or that he invented racism in genre fiction. But the idea of a whole bunch of made-up races that all have a single racially-bound characteristic, and which can easily be read as analogues of real-life human ethnic…

@avclub-53e4db6f596904f154b5efa09193e3ab:disqus - It's not that Tolkien was the first or only racist author in genre fiction; it's more that I think that the innovations he brought to racism in genre fiction - particularly the portrayal of races or species which all have one trait or set of traits, and can often be…

The only problem is, Ricky Gervais at least has nothing else in him. He produced one good show, and a couple mediocre projects after that, and beyond that all he's got is his asshole "Ricky Gervais" persona, which, from everything I can tell, is just his actual personality. He lucked into Karl Pilkington because Karl…

Ricky Gervais has "created" The Office, Extras, and The Invention of Lying. If any of those is your favorite comedy of all time, you have lived an embarrassingly sheltered life.

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Guess we can't be friends, then, 'cause I only laugh at funny stuff.

You know, saying that the Ferengi somehow contain a "critique of capitalism," even a piss-poor one, is way, way too generous. If that were the case, then Star Trek's explanation for capitalism would be, "these people are just racially greedy, at a genetic level, annnnnnd, whattayagonnado?" That's not an analysis of a…

Don't be so hard on whale shit.

@avclub-b31df16a88ce00fed951f24b46e08649:disqus , I think that was more of a happy accident brought about by the change in actors than anything else. Terry Ferrell was gone and Jadzia had been killed off - they couldn't very well act as though Ezri was the same character in a new body, which had been the treatment the…

Also, can I just say that I find the conversation about how a Trill gets to have a worm put in them hilarious, in this episode? "Dax, how did you get to have Worm-Dax put inside you?" "Oh, the usual - I won scholarships, and so on." "Scholarships?" "Oh, yes. It's very competitive." "So… it's, what, like an essay…

Who will get the final Death Blow?

And even then we haven't gotten to If Wishes Were Horses! "Hey there, puny humans! We're omnipotent beings who explore the universe, and we're going to do crazy random shit, because this elementary mental process you demonstrate is like nothing we've ever seen!"

Serene doesn't have to mean dull as paint.