And the recurring characters on Family Guy? They're "satirical" too?

Lolz, thanks K. My inner ranter needed that!

Really?
So how are two consecutive shows featuring a dozen limp-wristed, lisping f*gs "inoffensive?" Oh right, this is the AVClub.

Van Wilder and Cynthia Nixon

The resolution of the Moriarty ep was pretty damn clever.

Well, granted, RJ. But at least he had the excuse of being old and not at the height of his powers. Unlike Douche and 7 yr Retch.

FS, that's about the hardest I've ever laughed at a post, you remorseless trollop!

Wait till you get to the Widettes sketches. It'll make the Nerds look like friggin Shakespeare. (Cheezbugah, Cheezbugah had no reason to exist either.)

Yecch, Eerma the Douche, the nadir of Wilder's output.

Aqualad, Barkley was introduced as a brilliant engineer but completely flustered and inept socially. The holodiction ep came later where he recreated the whole crew so he could pretend to be strong and capable (boffing Troi, playing captain). Though I did like the Barkley's Brain ep a lot.

Yeah, but it'd be synthecaine, so you're ok.

RJ, I concur completely, with some love for III as well.

Why do I always go for the old chick?
I am so loving Paula Poundst—- I mean Celia. Would totally go straight for her. Her and giantess afro queen.

I was thinking Little Rascals.

Having grown up in Buffalo, I couldn't stop laughing at "I cain't, I cain't go back!" Oh, honey she is soooo right. Though I never heard anyone with a Southern accent there before. Guess I grew up in the wrong 'hood.

Also, Worf's dating advice to Geordi, "or you can beg, like a human." Hah!

QUADROPHENIA guys! Unquestionably.

I guess in a world where race is supposed to be irrelevant, being the only alien on board would make Spock an "other." But humans by that point should have been a lot more sensitive. Maybe it's some residual racism that the only minorities on the bridge were the space receptionist and the bus driver.

You'd have to think that just getting into Starfleet would require an enormous amount of intelligence and resourcefulness. The high level of the vocabulary esp on TNG really demonstrated that. That's why I always thought Barkley would never have gotten so far being so incompetent around his crewmates.

Anti-intellectualism is *not* deep rooted in America. It is a recent phenomenon courtesy of the rise of the religious yahoos - thanks to Reagan, Bush I, then reached its current state of toxicity thanks to Dubya. The first 2/3 of the 20th cent. was "science knows best." Hence why I wasn't breast-fed, for instance.…