Ooh, nice use of "termagant"!

He wants you to listen to this awesome mixtape he made…

Actually, the characters who seem to do the least amount of work - and are least deserving of partnership - are clearly Roger and Bert. What exactly do they do at this point? Roger drinks a lot and makes clever jokes, and Bert walks around in his socks. I guess that theoretically they're both in "accounts," but…

*shudder*

Forrest Gump is really a weirdly gross and reactionary movie - the appeal of it, I suppose, was all about trading on the most empty, superficial forms of nostalgia (here's a music cue! here's a famous person! here's every Boomer thing ever!) while shitting on the actual politics and political movements that defined…

Yeah, I was surprised to see Todd miss the obvious difference between Trudy and Betty - it's not "raw courage and intelligence," it's wealth and power. Pete married Trudy for her family's money - she still has that, and will always be able to hold it over him in a way that gives her a decent amount of power in their…

I'm betting she just tells the dragon to burn the slaver and it does it. "Buying" a dragon isn't like buying a puppy - it's not like the dragon is gonna suddenly love the slave trader just because some gold traded hands.

The most irritating thing about the Britta bit was that for the last season and a half, the show has been increasingly trying to forget the whole "Britta-as-activist" thing, and suddenly swerve her into "Britta-as-wannabe-psychologist" territory. To jump back into the "failed half-assed activist" gag demonstrates once…

I think he just has Ralph Wiggum's Disease - regardless of his physical age, he'll always be a kinda-retarded six year-old.

:(

True enough.

What do you care if Mike Doughty is re-recording some of his old band's old songs? Even if it's a "fuck you to his old bandmates," really,  why do you care? Do you know Mike Doughty? Do you know Yuval Gabay or Mark Degli Antoni or whoever the other guy was? If not, why are you personally offended by one guy…

The only dream of mine that had Jon Stewart in it was this one where I'm flipping through an old, dog-eared copy of "The Dark Knight Strikes Again" and I get to the scene where the Joker kills David Letterman, only instead of Letterman it's Jon Stewart, and he's right there on the page getting gassed to death by the…

Mike Doughty's fans don't have to give him a cent of their money. If they do, it's their own business, as is what he does with it. He's not actually going to force anyone to listen to his re-done versions of Soul Coughing songs, and he's not going to go back in time and stab the old songs to death with a knife so that…

That was the nineties - financial deregulation, bad hair, and good bands with shit cover art.

"I got that ventriloquism article comin' up, Jerry - an' I'm gonna use my Manic Pixie Dream Girl bit in it. It's gold, Jerry! It's gold!"

I'll still defend Nixon. It's kind of a mess in places, but it's a great mess, and it gets everything right that W gets wrong - it has great performances instead of weird, SNL-style celebrity impressions; it remembers the political context of the era without feeling lost in it or preachy; it manages to humanize a…

That was such a good character moment, though - Sansa desperately needs escapism, since her life went from privileged to shit within the past year or so. Shae's life has been shitty for long enough that she doesn't see the point of escape, figurative or literal, anymore.

"I never cared for Tommen."

I like how the AV Club every so often changes things up by dropping the sexist material and comments and switching to racist material and comments.