Such a beautifully constructed gag.
Second only to this exchange from Police Squad:
"Who are you and how did you get in here?"
"I'm a locksmith. And I'm a locksmith."

Everyone I know who speaks of it reverently read it in high school or earlier. I'm pretty certain I missed the window for giving a shit about this one.

Well, I'm the only person alive who has never actually read Catcher In The Rye.
So if you want to grab some coffee some afternoon we could exchange notes.

I missed Part I of this video series when it played in a browser near me so I was very confused by Part II. Was it supposed to be funny?

https://xkcd.com/945/

Oh good. Since I still haven't seen Boyhood, this will be one less Simpsons episode for me to watch. Thanks, Al Jean!

Gee, way to ruin movie magic, Internet. Bad job!

Yeah, people keep telling me this too. I can save you a lot of wasted time and just say: people are liars.
They sing pretty. End of story.

Either I already knew these people were related or I've never heard of (at least one of) them. This isn't a problem, just an observation.

More good points — thanks for your thoughts.

You make some good points, but I've got quibbles.
A) I don't agree that live-action characters don't sometimes appear intermittently during a season (early Barney Miller seasons with their rotating cast of dertectives leap to mind, as well as Dudley from Diff'rent Strokes, Cliff's father on The Cosby Show, Gunther on…

I have never understood the animosity towards this epiode.
It's intentionally ridiculous and purposely goes against continuity (which was never something The Simpsons particularly cared about to begin with, contrary to nitpicking audience expectations), so calling it out for that seems silly.
It always seemed to me…

What you've linked to is about the second national flag of the Confederacy. That wasn't the "Stars and Bars" either — that was the first flag of the C.S.A.
I agree that it's just "historical trivia" in one sense, but the reason for pointing it is that the South has a long tradition of getting the history of the Civil…

Hey, AVClub — please stop making the same mistake that Southerners ignorant of their own history make. What we today call The Confederate Flag (which was never the actual national flag of the Confederacy) is NOT the Stars and Bars. That was a completely different flag (one which actually was the official flag of the…

Rimshot!

My experience (late '80s - mid '90s) was that footwear wasn't the issue but the kind of music was — punk rock pits were a community and heavy metal pits were a contest to inflict pain and suffering.

The opposite is also true. I can't tell you how awesome it was to sit through three shitty bands before getting to hear David Cross do stand-up.
I can't tell you, of course, because it sucked and the crowd hated it.

I'd go even further. Eddie is the goofy sidekick. Jack Burton is mostly just a useless observer.

"semi-competent" is quite the compliment given he may well be the dumbest action hero in cinematic history.

Yeah the disguises in this don't play well at all, although after the first viewing, that ceases to matter anyway and you can just relish the performances. Anyone given any love to Tyrone Power yet? Cuz he's pretty fantastic in this.