This is better than a movie…how?

ugh…
This show sounds awful.

My favorite scene
Hasn't yet been mentioned: Matt's mom cornering coach in the grocery store, and coach charming her in about 2 minutes. A perfect scene fully in character for both of them, hilarious, and revealing, once again, as subtly as ever, that half of being a football coach is the ability to work people.

Were she still alive, and someone were to show her this thread of discussion of her merits as an author, I think Flannery would laugh at all of us, and then write a story about one of us (more than likely, one of her supporters) drinking orange cola and getting beaten senseless by a drunken gimpy preacher in a funny…

4, 5, and 6 were the prime. You really can't lose choosing any one of those three. (and, really, I wouldn't begrudge anyone's picking 3 or 7, either).

I used to teach high school, and outside of class days when I showed episodes of the Simpsons, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" day was almost always the most successful one.

Aren't we missing the fact that in "Wuthering Heights," Heathcliff digs Catherine's corpse out of the fucking ground, arguably has hot necrophilic sex with it, and cuts the side of her coffin open so she can get out and reach him when he's buried next to her? If ever there's a 19th century novel custom made for the…

Bill hasn't been likable—to me at least—since early in season 2. I've been debating about whether the show works with a protagonist I hate now for at least 12 episodes. I guess the fact that I'm still watching answers my question.

Steve Martin doesn't make these crappy movies for the money.

BK
's albums have been on a steady downwards trajectory (in terms of quality), besides "hospital bed" which is great, great, great.

Good point re: Strawberry Alarm Clock. He was also, I believe, thrown out of Lynyrd Skynyrd twice. So that's also a nice accomplishment.

Not that it matters, but I, too, subscribe to the "he's just doing it to mess with us" category. Especially with that Victoria Secret's ad, which is one of the top 5 creepiest things I've ever seen in my entire life.

According to Wikipedia, Pyle didn't join until '74. King and Powell both joined in '72. Not sure why Ed King doesn't count as an original member.

No love for Billy Powell in the comments section?
Sure, the post-plane crash Skynyrd was a joke. But come on, this was a fantastic band that was only getting better (and that doesn't get enough due outside of classic rock radio), and Powell was a huge part of what made them so great.

Well, that seems a bit harsh. I thought last week's episode was a necessary breather between high points (can you imagine 10 straight episodes at the pace of this one? It'd be exhausting.).

It really won't be all that fair of a fight once Robert Smith transforms into Smithra. But it would be sweet as hell to actually see it.

I move that we close comments on this article (maybe the entire website?) after Claude so brilliantly brought us to the logical end of all possible avclub discussion.

What's hilarious about this
is that there's ultimately no difference between shilling for Nestle and shilling for Scientology. Except that in the case of the latter, nobody's cutting 20th century fox a paycheck (thus the quick—though comical—effort effort to downplay the scientology thing).

Is anybody even reading at this point?
Sure, poetry's more or less dead at this point, but I hate when people dismiss the entire genre. Actually, I suppose that people who dismiss the classics (in all genres) really stick in my craw, so to speak. I mean, just because you're too lazy to pick up, say, "Leaves of…

Trilogy of error is definitely the last great episode. "Linguo dead?" "Correction: Linguo is dead."