There's so much that's right about the first two-thirds of this movie that the failures make it feel so wrong. I loved straight-arrow Steve Martin, clueless Campbell Scott and improbably hot Rebecca Pidgeon. I also loved Ed O'Neill in his one scene sitting on the wall like a jaded smirking gargoyle.

It might be bad writing if your audience is one of hard-core RPGers. But for everybody else, the writing makes sense. The episode needs a way to give Pierce the upper hand. Meanwhile, Abed's behavior is consistent with the character because we know how deeply he invests in the rules of whatever foolishness he's…

Good analysis of American Beauty, with one caveat. There's the nice scene just before [Spoiler!] Kevin Spacey gets murdered where he remembers that he's a dad and, you know, talks to his daughter's friend.

It certainly has a lot of stuff going on, but the "what's really going on below" and "remember when I moved in you" lingo is undoubtedly sexual. And I think it would take a pretty broad interpretation to find it appropriate as background music over the sorrow of 9/11.

I will help Dean with his dislike of the song, which he was having a hard time articulating: It is a song about sex. And Jeff Buckley's version of the song is as unsexy as all get-out.

Where I'm from, when you mention that shit, you link to that shit.

"Wrong. Wrong!"

It's the same, except the kid can beat you up.

Love Garden is still open?!? (Though I still regret my Ned's Atomic Dustbin purchase.)

She was pretty good in "Infamous"

Having no opinion about Superman one way or another going into the movie, I gotta say the critics are right about the weird disregard for life this supposed avatar of all that's right seems to hold.

NOTHING CAN DEFEAT THE PENIS!

NOTHING CAN DEFEAT THE PENIS!

I like it when Kanye uses it on "Runaway," using it to illustrate how he's a misanthrope who can't express his true feelings, so everything he shouts out to the world becomes distorted noise.

I like it when Kanye uses it on "Runaway," using it to illustrate how he's a misanthrope who can't express his true feelings, so everything he shouts out to the world becomes distorted noise.

Charles Laughton is going to put "love" and "hate" shaped knuckles all over your cheekbones.
What Orson Welles would do to you would be devastating, mostly likely illegal, and probably fattening.

Charles Laughton is going to put "love" and "hate" shaped knuckles all over your cheekbones.
What Orson Welles would do to you would be devastating, mostly likely illegal, and probably fattening.

I resent and protest that remark and I whoa check out the chest hams on Ms. Hayek.

I resent and protest that remark and I whoa check out the chest hams on Ms. Hayek.

Oh, c'mon. "It's a Metrocard, you use it to ride the subway" is comedy gold. As is, "You're a nurse?" "I know, some of us are hot," and "If I had knockers like that I'd be thanking God too."