No, I think it was actually the show pulling their punches. Kamikaze references aren't going to bother many people besides 80 plus World War II vets. Making a reference to a suicide bombing vest, attacks which occur even today, would have been a way bolder, much more controversial joke.

Tom has definitely surpassed Ann as the show's weak link. While I've never disliked Ann Perkins, I'll admit that as a straight woman she can be bland.

I'm right there with you. The show's still great, but none of the campaign stuff was all that funny. Maybe as a set up, but even that didn't seem to work for me.

Card was also one of, I believe, three of some fifty Slate writers who backed Bush in 2004.

Yep, this one went as well as could be expected. A largely liberal comments section gets in their digs, justifiably or not, on a writer whose politics and most of whose fiction they loathe. I'm slightly to the left of Lobsters and probably to the right of 95 percent of the AV Club audience, so I'm hesitant to jump in…

I thought this HDTGM, the only podcast I regularly listen to, was far superior to the Superman III one (the other live episode that I remember them doing). I do prefer it when it's just the three of them and a guest, but I suppose if they are in fact wondering how a film got made, it isn't all that bad to interview…

There's a much better alternate universe where George W. Bush became Commisioner of Major League Baseball, a position he was actually well suited for, instead of being one of the worst presidents in our history. It's a shame.

Um, I guess I'll be the only one to admit that I actually enjoyed some of Lil Wayne's musical output, including his mixtapes (one song which made the Black Eyed Peas listenable for the second time ever).

I'm sure there's more further down, but maybe it was the music he made when was actually a good rapper.

He got rid of her character though, isn't that enough.

Indeed. The problem is that there isn't any successor on the horizon. Even Parks and Rec, the best of the Thursday night line up, doesn't pull enough in ratings or awards to really take the crown and NBC has literally nothing else that even comes close in terms of quality or viewship (Up all Night had fewer viewers…

I like Rainn Wilson and enjoyed Dwight as a character until he was Flanderized into a dangerous sociopath (the fire starting was hilarious though). I'll watch the pilot for the spinoff and then slowly lose interest.

I don't know about that. Watching the decline and eventual termination of David Brent was interesting and without the second season we wouldn't have gotten the utterly sublime Christmas Special, which really ranks up there with the best finales of any show that I've seen.

I largely share your views, although I'm certainly less fond of season six (don't think much of Niagara, and Scott's Tots was a bit over the top in its cruelty) than you are. Seven had a nice back end.

Hulk Hogan didn't even turn up for a story about him. That saddens me.

According to Wikipedia it seems to have been James Woods, because why not?

I'd heard about this, but I didn't know there was a video. Man….that's some strange stuff right there.

The Godfather. Pulpy novel vs. one of the greatest films ever made.

Has our fellow commenter Girard never played Lords of the Realm 2, or Caesar II? Lord knows I spent the better part of my early teenage years succesfully establishing my kingdom, and less succesfully building Rome.

There are plenty of honest to God worse bands than Limp Bizkit. I'll credit them with a few mediocre, albeit listenable songs, as well as Borland, who is generally acknowledged to be the most talented member of the band by a long shot. Still, few genuinely popular bands were as terrible as they were in sum and fewer…