@avclub-0bf3a628d601e2af3a15c7e39758bc11:disqus There's at least so much gay shit these days. I pretty much don't watch anything without it.

Ha. Soo not true.

Showtime's all about hanging dong, it'll show up. Last time I thought the same thing, when on some sketch comedy they had a female castmember show her boobs, the next segment half the male cast with  their balls out (the "Balls Out Jeans" sketch).

You….you know what you're doing with that top picture.

Oh. Guess I misremembered.

@avclub-7e1ce4ce3124fd9ecc13a151afcff11b:disqus His anger might make sense but her hysterics were totally condescending to the audience, considering she converted to Catholicism rather than grew up one, and its edict against abortion back then wasn't as a defining feature of the faith back then as it is now.

The only one written during the original run (besides the re-airs) was "Ren Seeks Help". It also happened to be the only good one. That said it was really really good. It would have been great as a series finale.

It was aired. Ren had Stimpy explicitly repeat "you're the pitcher, I'm the catcher".

It's not bait; I didn't realize that Sowell was vehemently anti-abortion but I wasn't "on his side" of avoiding said "polarization" or "leaving things up to the states" either. I don't doubt that probably most audiences weren't okay with abortion at the time. I just thought it was interesting that this seemed to make…

The most interesting thing about this movie these days was its treatment of abortion. Libertarian commenter Thomas Sowell pointed out that federaling an issue forces polarization. I'm not a libertarian or a fan of them but this is a startling proof of concept.

I like it.

Get your animation studios straight.

"It's hard for me to take arguments against Pixar animation being unique or visionary after I just re-watched Monsters, Inc. with my kids and saw the whole brilliant final chase scene through the doors, again."

@avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus Toy Story 2 was commissioned by Disney to be a straight-to-video movie.

@Pgoodso:disqus "Classical-style CGI" as an analog to classical style cell animation; defined against stylized animation (a drawing style that doesn't attempt to create the illusion of 3 dimensions and instead takes advantage of the flat plane of the canvas). I made up the term to describe what Pixar pretty-much…

@avclub-eb2194390186a31ed3d28b4b42708c62:disqus They're technically great, but next to the entire character of Lord Shen from KFP 2 and the character designs from Rango, Pixar doesn't really do anything visually superlative besides setting a technical standard of "classical-style" CGI.

@avclub-cc225865b743ecc91c4743259813f604:disqus The elephant in the room between Pixar and DreamWorks is their take on romance. I suspect that it's Lasseter because the same problems moved on to Disney branded movies, but in Pixar/Disney movies, the guy gets the girl because he's supposed to (including that Paperman…

Ratatouille is their best and even that isn't a classic. I don't understand why there's so much talking in their films (dialog is a crutch for visual media) and I get the feeling that people who really like Pixar movies are not really fans of animation otherwise.

There are more studios doing more interesting stuff these days; besides DreamWorks of course, Blue Sky, Illumination, and Nickelodeon. Talented animators want to work on more visually interesting projects rather than the dialog-heavy, bland stuff Pixar is known for. Coasting on praise from a specific Internet audience…

That's the joke.