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Dour, long, mildly incoherent, but still in the top three superhero movies. These things suck!

When last we left Humps he was surrounded by a bunch of rioting prisoners, one of whom was pointing a gun at him, so…I guess you'll find out soon enough.

The genre "nerd rap" always bugged me because rap music has always been damn nerdy.

His penchant for cheese also indicates that he was lactose tolerant. Urkel was breaking down barriers left and right.

Just to clarify, a list of "the Rosa Parkses* of Non-Gay Black Nerds" is the inventory?

Bender was Mexican though. Not that being Mexican excludes him from being black. Being a robot is what did that.

You'd think that "Don't Be Like Urkel" could go without saying but….

Were Richie and his mom written out with explanation? Was there a very special episode when Grandma died?

Like any era, much of 90s pop culture was straight-up terrible. And with all the bucket hats, the popularity of The Offspring, and nü-metal, you can make an argument that it was worse than most eras.

"Actually, Major Briggs, the deep space monitors couldn't have picked up a textual transmission. Whether 'the owls are not what they seem' has nothing to do with NASA's valuable, increasingly scarce resources."

"Gal, I'll lay yo!"

That's when I felt most afraid. "Uh oh, it's him! Lena Dunham can't be far!"

"I say, this is a great golf club that the mysterious 'Adam' left here. Why, we should name it after him!"

The series does literally start with someone trying to deliver a message.

*Sends my reply via dead rat*

Oh what, and you artoo busy for that?

HE BETTER NOT HAVE MADE MARK HAMILL SAD! THAT'S HIS FACE UP BY THE PEPPER STEAK, DRIVER, AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT!

Jane Weaver's Modern Kosmology which is really stylistically all over the place, but mostly centered in my pleasure center—jammy pop. RIYL: Stereolab, Robyn (?)

You've just described the original premise for Spongebob Squarepants!

This isn't hap-pin-ing.