Ooh, they're still referenced by music writers! That always keeps the hip kids lovin' 'em!

Dude, you really want to make the case for Nirvana based on their lyrics? "Smells Like Teen Spirit" did not succeed on the basis of such insightful gems as "a mulatto, an albino, a mosquito, my libido."

I totally understand depression, I just don't glamorize it. Cobain wasn't a better or more genuine person just because his seratonin levels were off, and no one is obligated to pretend to like his music just because he shot himself.

I totally understand depression, I just don't glamorize it. Cobain wasn't a better or more genuine person just because his seratonin levels were off, and no one is obligated to pretend to like his music just because he shot himself.

It'd be interesting to know, demographic-wise, who exactly are Nirvana fans at this point. I'm guessing that being a Nirvana fan isn't like being a fan of, say, Talking Heads or the Pixies, where tons of people listen to them who weren't even born when they were around as a band - I'm betting you actually had to be a…

It'd be interesting to know, demographic-wise, who exactly are Nirvana fans at this point. I'm guessing that being a Nirvana fan isn't like being a fan of, say, Talking Heads or the Pixies, where tons of people listen to them who weren't even born when they were around as a band - I'm betting you actually had to be a…

Wasn't Cobain the very definition of a woe-is-me rich boy? His constant complaint was, "oh my GOD, I'm so rich and famous, and I have so much money to shoot up my arm, and nobody understands, me, man." Is that a "genuine" disillusioned theme? How is Lana Del Ray's mopey rich girl act any less authentic than Cobain's…

Wasn't Cobain the very definition of a woe-is-me rich boy? His constant complaint was, "oh my GOD, I'm so rich and famous, and I have so much money to shoot up my arm, and nobody understands, me, man." Is that a "genuine" disillusioned theme? How is Lana Del Ray's mopey rich girl act any less authentic than Cobain's…

Where does it say that the point of the series is to discuss a failure? I thought this was just stories told by comics about being comics.

Where does it say that the point of the series is to discuss a failure? I thought this was just stories told by comics about being comics.

@avclub-ffc2c137ac50f2b5c98536d558642273:disqus - No, he's suggesting that you talk like a twelve year old, because you use "punk rock" as an adjective. The use of "dude" and "badass", particularly in reference to the production of a major network sitcom, doesn't help, either.

The thing I always appreciated about Inspector Spacetime was that it was very clearly a riff on Classic Who, rather than newer, trendier, blander nu-Who. I'd be genuinely surprised if Harmon was a Doctor Who fan of any stripe, but I can't see him being into the new version, which is essentially a poor man's Buffy.

Nah, there's a pretty huge difference in the way that Tracy's used in the early episodes. Pretty much throughout season 1, you have a Tracy who's intelligent and manipulative as well as insane - and in fact seems to vacillate between genuine lunacy and a carefully-constructed facade of lunacy. (At times he pretends to…

Nah, there's a pretty huge difference in the way that Tracy's used in the early episodes. Pretty much throughout season 1, you have a Tracy who's intelligent and manipulative as well as insane - and in fact seems to vacillate between genuine lunacy and a carefully-constructed facade of lunacy. (At times he pretends to…

@avclub-e9ff4d75e5f009d75101694ff6f1f80a:disqus  - I'm convinced that opening credits sequence is the reason Frank and Pete are still on the show.

@avclub-e9ff4d75e5f009d75101694ff6f1f80a:disqus  - I'm convinced that opening credits sequence is the reason Frank and Pete are still on the show.

@Gorfious:disqus  - but the point of the serial killer plotline wasn't simply to criticize our serial killer obsessed culture; it was to throw up a parallel between the deterioration of the police department and the deterioration of the paper, which both lead to acts of desperation designed to prove that those…

@Gorfious:disqus  - but the point of the serial killer plotline wasn't simply to criticize our serial killer obsessed culture; it was to throw up a parallel between the deterioration of the police department and the deterioration of the paper, which both lead to acts of desperation designed to prove that those…

I walked out in the middle of the boxing episode and never regretted it.

I walked out in the middle of the boxing episode and never regretted it.