"At the risk of sounding like a broken record, Peter Griffin is…so misogynistic and uncaring that whenever Family Guy goes back to the well for one of these plots, it’s a chore to keep track of every piece of the story that mirrors another time Peter ignored his family’s well-being for his own purposes. "
But that's…

We're supposed to feel like Rick killing Shane is a sign of him becoming less humane and more coldly pragmatic (his arc in the comics), but really the way it went down it was Shane's fault. He has lingering jealousy about Shane banging his wife which is supposed to make cast doubt on the morality of Rick's decision,…

They gave him jack to do all season. His only major scene I can remember was when he complained to Dale about how underused he is because he's the black guy. Seriously, WD writers? The show takes place in Atlanta, which has a predominantly black population, and you give the show's only black character about as much…

A weird sci-fi premise and overly conceptual gags that don't land. Yeah, pretty lame.

I think the "bad naked" story is an inspired bit of season 9 silliness, although I share George's opinion that Jerry is way too jaded and should just enjoy the ride.

Yama hama, it's fright night!

Kramer writhing around with a towel on his head is one of the best Michael Richards physical comedy bits of all time…Maybe the biggest fit of uncontrollable laughter I've had since George with his pants down in The Boyfriend. ("That's toxic!"…Kills me every time.)

So many great quotes and little moments in these two, so many that I can almost forgive the sometimes insipid plots:

Pretentious writing (Sheesh, you music writers all wish you were authors), but Field Music are one of the smartest pop groups today and deserve the praise.

More listless, mumbled vocals over the most generic modern rock arrangements imaginable.

Lay the Hamm-er down! (God I love Jon Hamm puns.)

I agree with the criticisms of the acting and production values of this episode, but I do like the unrelenting "Hey, sometimes life just sucks" cynicism of the story. Does anyone else see unintended parallels between Varos and the nation of Iraq? They're both oppressed states controlled by a dictator, possessing a…

A solid introduction to the TZ format, but the time travel logic is odd - Why does Peter cease to have existed in the present after he dies in the past? Desi's muddled attempt at a theory of what just happened at the end is pretty funny.

Someone has never listened to Tricky or Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works.

Sounds like more tweenwave bullshit to me…Skrillex is just 90s house with terrible lyrics and no subtlety, but assign a hip new idiom to the same crap and all of a sudden it's a totally new genre. I swear to god no one under 30 has produced anything original in the past 10 years, but these Millennials are apparently…

My musical kryptonite is corporate country, particularly anything after 9-11, when the genre went from cornball to almost provoking anyone who reads at a college level to hate it. Also secretary rock, lunkheaded post-grunge, and top 40 songs that use the trite I-V-vi-IV chord progression.

I think the average Pollard/GbV album from the 2000s onward splits up like this: five or six all-time classic songs, a handful of okay songs, and a few stinkers. I get tired of reading reviews where people say "He released six albums and there's a ton of filler, so he must be in decline," when I think any sane,…

"If I’m being completely honest, post-Under The Bushes Under The Stars, I can’t think of any Guided By Voices album from which I need to hear more than four or five songs."
Well now that's just silly.

This episode contained a shining example of what's wrong with the Simpsons these days (cue image of apoplectic Grandpa Simpson shaking his fist), and it's not the less-than-timely satire, although targeting Facebook two years after a South Park episode that even then many people argued wasn't very timely is certainly…

This episode contained a shining example of what's wrong with the Simpsons these days (cue image of apoplectic Grandpa Simpson shaking his fist), and it's not the less-than-timely satire, although targeting Facebook two years after a South Park episode that even then many people argued wasn't very timely is certainly…