I can't find this on Netflix, unfortunately.

Me too. I don't believe in you. I don't even believe you exist.

For some reason, this trait seems to get really amplified in groups of humans who live in mountainous regions. Ever notice that? Mountain folk the world over are some of the hardest folk to talk into the idea that diversity is a good thing and that outsiders aren't to be held at a distance — whether it's…

Well, the first indication that the step-father was going to be no good was that he engaged in a romantic relationship with one of his patients!

I love Norman-Whitfield-era-Temptations, and I've not heard of the Undisputed Truth. I will definitely check them out! Thanks @Barnaby Jonesin and @Enkidum!

The fault in that logic is your assumption that a black guy could get a home loan.

The first time I heard Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried," I thought it was a parody, along the lines of "You Never Even Called Me By My Name," a song self-consciously attempting to be the perfect country & western song. Turns out, though, that "Mama Tried" is a wonderful song, and it comes damn close to being the perfect…

Pale imitations, like a birthday candle compared to the sun.

"Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1" does have a strangely judgy, blaming, accusatory tone, though, especially with the lines, "Daddy, what'd you leave behind for me?" It's maybe not rational — and the whole album is about Pink going insane, after all — but it does seem like Pink is angry at his father for…

Now there was a guy with a shitty father who turned into a shitty father himself! I guess he tried to be better for Sean, but poor Julian was left out in the cold for a long time.

I know nothing about Harry Chapin beyond this song, but for some reason I imagine him delivering that punchline and laughing like Ray Liota in Field of Dreams when he relates how he told Ty Cobb to "stick it!"

Not necessarily. The narrator of the song recognized his mistake, so maybe the son will recognize that he's repeating the pattern. I'm especially hopeful that the son will do so, since the song was a big hit, and surely he's heard it.

Even that term, "quality time," is a bullshit rationalization that parents in the 1980s came up with to assuage their consciences about the lack of time they had for their kids, working ever-longer hours, and especially after both parents were doing so. From my experience as a child, I'm going to say that I think…

Yes, it wasn't done out of malice. He was working and providing for his son, but that didn't leave much time to spend with his son, and the father doesn't realize this until it's too late to do much about it. Lots of fathers fall into that pattern. The song at least presents the consequences of it to any father…

Maybe he went to the Pacific? Or even North Africa? Just because the film brings in lots of Nazi imagery doesn't mean that Waters's (or Pink's) father was fighting in Europe. Theirs was a two-front war, too.

No! Damn your eyes, no!

Of course, I can't think of her without thinking of the ending of Dr. Strangelove. The dark humor of that doesn't really mix well with the humorless The Wall, but that might not be Roger Waters's fault. I don't think it's mine, either. Waters needs to take that up with Stanley Kubrick whenever they "meet again,…

"There's very little meth in these remotes." — Lunch Lady "Red" Doris

I hope Jewish people don't shy away from using a groupon — or saving a couple of bucks on anything, for that matter, the same way anyone else would — simply so as not to reinforce a stereotype. Everyone likes saving a buck! Especially in the ruins of Dick Cheney's America.

Wow, Chicago is one of the world's great cities. You shouldn't observe a travel embargo on it; you should go there of your own free will.