I don't think "He needs to work on making my show funnier" is necessarily an admission "I don't think my show is funny enough". A comedy writer's job is to make things funnier, whether it's already funny or not.

It is a little dumb and short-sighted to think the way du Bouchet does though. Like, I bet he actually believes that every guy who gave him a swirly in high school is some piece of alcoholic trailer trash who beats his wife. And that thought makes him smile as he lays his head down to bed every night.

Hey, there's only room for ONE lesbian on our list.

Translated AND int he background! This is some next-level shit.

Man, I wish I thought of that when I was fired from my CPA job.

There's also an embarrassment of riches in Spice Girls with the name "Mel"

Why is the picture for Botched just those two guys' necks.

Very true. I guess the only distinction I'm trying to make is that the issue isn't with the trope or the identification with the character onscreen, but the societal views of sexuality and gender that pepper how these characters are written and viewed. Doesn't mean the movie gets a pass, but a lot of the comments…

Well I think he's specifically talking about movies that were never completed.

I guess I'd ask you why the brash, stubbly studmuffin is NOT a manic pixie dream boy. Under the Tuscan Sun and How Stella Got Her Groove Back are still based on men as more sexual props more than anything else… the issue is that to "loosen up" the uptight corporate lady the push is always sexual. Where the MPDG…

"No, it really wasn't, that kind of threatening sexual advance is NOT OKAY."
To that point though, she does immediately dress her down… and the repartee does get a little more fun as he dances around sex. Not rationalizing it, but the line isn't quite treated like a throwaway. Especially since she's HIS superior, so…

That's fair, but that's really perception isn't it? When I watch Bringing Up Baby I don't come in thinking of it as Cary Grant loosening up, I think of it as Katherine Hepburn being awesome… meanwhile, the change in character is "supposed" to indicate whose story it is.
I mean, I'd agree that there's a difference…

Add your mom and it's an orgy!

My fiancee' has actually started to go to my Disqus account to find out if I'm unresponsive to texts because I'm actually doing work, or if I'm just dicking around at work.

I think to Whedon and @avclub-b20754d0f1e8ae843e00a8b39a667112:disqus ' credit though… the sexuality is a bit gender-specific. The women in the gender-reversed version you're talking about (with MPDG) aren't typically as sexually aggressive.
There's something very harrass-y about Pratt's character here that Whedon…

So sexually free people DON'T help uptight, prudish people come out of their shells sometimes? Would it be cool if they were lesbians or gay men? How do you make any well-worn romantic character type not sexist?

But also, as a writer, he should know that the character's motivations and how the story treats them can't be seen in an out-of-context clip. Hell, I'm surprised he even watched it. Watching clips that a marketing department sends out prior to a movie's release should rankle all filmmakers.

Ty Segall's pretty rad

The best part of it is that Jaimie Lannister came on for about 20 seconds. Talked about how his kids think he's lame, Fallon made him do a stupid fucking dance, and then they pulled him offstage so Madonna could perform a shitty song.

But it was even bad at that…