It's weird now to think that there was an era of web browsing before Yahoo's ephemeral reign as the standard search engine when there was a variety of choices. If you really wanted to dig up information, you'd have to try multiple search engines, and everyone had his favorite. You'd be like, "You're still using…

In more culturally heterogeneous countries than England (such as the US and Canada), the different grandparent titles also vary according to ancestry. I knew a lot of Dutch kids who were constantly getting that horrid salty licorice candy from Oma and Opa rather than Grandma and Grampa.

No, but they're men — and ones who would likely knock West on his ass if he interrupted them.

Better yet, in the final episode, everyone dies suddenly and the story becomes the tale of how Ted met the Heavenly Father.

If Kanye had done the same thing to Beyonce, he'd still be a colossal asshole.

I loved that too. That nod to continuity alone has to raise the episode at least half a letter grade. Plus, it actually served a dramatic purpose in that it introduced the idea of a rival to Ben, which made it clearer to both character and audience that his feelings for Leslie are progressing from admiration to…

I missed half the coda because I live in Toronto, so no matter what channel you're watching, it shows the CITY-TV feed instead of NBC, which abruptly jumped from one show to another midway through the coda. I fucking hate the fucking CRTC.

I logged in just to mention this. I was thrilled by the release of Brian Wilson Presents Smile, but it's not the real Smile to me, as it doesn't have the original band members' voices and the song order seems to be based on a concert setlist (i.e., it uses "Good Vibrations" as a crowd-pleasing finale, rather than…

…plus Younger than Yesterday, Surrealistic Pillow, the Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Magical Mystery Tour, and Axis: Bold as Love. And Smiley Smile, although in an alternate universe, Smile came out that year instead.

Gaming isn't an artform! Roger Ebert says so!

… and nothing associated with Curt Boettcher can be without redeeming value (except the Beach Boys' disco remix of "Here Comes the Night", of course).

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
"Erstwhile" means "former". It doesn't make any sense in the sentence "Steven's about to find the erstwhile family he's been searching for ever since his parents split up." Perhaps you meant "new"?

I think it's easily forgotten how bloated the original CD was, at 72 and a half minutes. You could delete everything Tecumseh suggests and still end up with 34 or 35 minutes of music. Given that cutoff point between an EP and an album is 25 minutes, that's easily long enough to be an album (that's about how long…

Well, he's a cousin, not just a childhood friend. But otherwise, agreed.

@Some Kind of Munster: Yes, but you try telling that to all the people who got eaten by the dirty bastards.

God, I don't know why the AV Club is deleting all my attempts to respond to this; this is my third attempt. Either it's the YouTube link I was including or it's the profanity.

Mike Love
Mike Love sort of represents the opposite of this topic. He basically manipulated the production the 2000 miniseries "An American Family" to come off as more hero than villain. Brian Wilson looks like a crackpot, while Mike looks like the level-headed voice of reason.

I maintain that there's a good album to be made out of Rattle & Hum.

It's refreshing when people exit the public sphere because they genuinely do want to spend more time with their families. I hold some goodwill toward not only Dana Carvey for that but also Rick Moranis, and it just occurs to me now that they could come out of retirement together and watch a buddy comedy that I'd…

I'm holding out for an alcohol-fueled Howard/Raj/Bernadette menage a trois. And after a bit of that, with Bernadette having provided the pretext for Howard and Raj to finally express their affection for each other physically, she could just get up and walk out of the bedroom without the two of them really noticing.