Yeah, I think it was 40 minutes and about 9,000 words total that we cut down to 3,000. It was a really, really bizarre experience.

The recording basically goes back and forth between him interrupting me or me sitting in stunned silence while he goes on for five minutes at a time, completely unprompted.

Hi! I think it's wonderful that you want A.V. Club to have a black critic chime in on depictions of blackness. So does the A.V. Club! And me! Which is why I am a black critic who writes about this show and depictions of blackness every week. Funny how that worked out.

Except the characters often refer to him as Junior.

Does Pontius Pilate count? Or do I have to go with Jake Gyllenhaal's Pilot in "Highway"?

Pilot as in TV pilot/airline pilot. Ver-You-Et (Sort of? I have a problem with articulating vowel sounds and also I definitely mispronounce my own name because it's French but I say the 'T').

I'm getting trolled by my own brother.

I think the difference here is that The Cosby Show's aim (and Bill Cosby himself, as he's mentioned plenty of times) wasn't solely to explore racial/cultural identity. There's a lot of interesting stuff in the new Cosby biography about how averse Cosby was to being known as that black actor/comic with that black…

I cannot act or sing.

I've always wanted a column at a site called Pilot's Pilots.

Oh GOD. That might have been the grossest thing I've ever watched on The League. I closed my eyes and squirmed, ugh.

I have a 3-episode rule where I try very hard not to judge a show until three episodes (unless I have to start reviewing from the beginning, obviously). I'll occasionally give sitcoms a little longer and dramas a little less, though.

I see what you did there.

Fixed! Must've been thinking too much of the lawyer/doctor combo in The Cosby Show.

I was called an Oreo a lot because I spoke properly (whatever that means) and was a bit of a nerdy kid who was/is super into punk shows and stuff. I'm also pretty lightskinned and mixed—black and Panamanian—so though my hair totally gives me away, I got a lot of "You're not REALLY black." The worst is when people,…

The Hardcore belt is my favorite but the ECW one is so un-flashy that I barely get looks on the subway while wearing it.

Pete is AWFUL. I know that all of the characters are kinda assholes and that's the point but Pete is impossible to like. The other guys (and girl) are fun assholes, Pete is too boring to care about. It's a good reflection of that whole "we've been friends for so long that it's not worth it to drop him" thing that…

I don't actually know how scoring works, to be honest but here are the results: http://i59.tinypic.com/2qdp…

But it SPINS! We also have the ECW belt which I believe goes to most points, the Intercontinental belt (no idea how you get that), and the Hardcore belt (I think you just beat whoever has it?). Clearly, I'm more into wrestling than football.

I love Lifetime SO fucking much but I love Can't Slow Down even more.