It's been a long time since I expected Orb albums to be awesome. I love the catalog up through Orblivion. Cydonia was the first shitty Orb album, starting a streak that remains unbroken.

I like how it looks like you cut him off after the first line.

I agree, most of the jokes are a lot more obvious and predictable.

A little bit of a let down
After last week's episode and preview, I was looking forward to seeing some increased competence on Dean's part. Sadly, the only time we saw anything like that was in the part that made it into the preview. The resolution of alternate Rusty was disappointingly tidy.

@SimonBarnes

Here in New York, the age of consent is 17, so technically, it wouldn't be rape, here. But in reality, does sex suddenly becoming traumatic when someone is below a certain age, and automatically non-traumatic if one is of the age of majority? Obviously not. It's probably better to picture a whole continuum of…

Grammer Nazi, linguists don't "accept" anything, they simply describe how people use language. Expecting linguists to determine the rules of "proper" grammar would be like asking a physicist to judge gymnastics.

The way things are going
It looks like the show is positioning Hank and Dean to be a lot more competent than their father. Hank in particular has been coming into his own, what with passing SPHINX admissions and getting laid. Of course, the circumstances of him getting laid are a bit unsettling, but it wouldn't be…

Teya, I have no idea who that is, and I can't be bothered to google it.

Chang is "literally" being treated like shit? Literally?!?!

i like hot dogs, your comment is ridiculous. If you want to see well-choreographed action, look no further than 90's Hong Kong cinema, where the camera would actually let you see the entire frame of action without cutting away every quarter second. The reason they do that in so many action movies is, I believe,…

Still, if your best answer for annoyingly unavoidable pop culture is "Mad Men"…I mean, geez, there's a million better answers. Literally, one million.

GeoGreg is right…we need to call this "pantless chaps." Not quite as attention grabbing, but more technically accurate.

The just-ended premier season of Louie had thirteen episodes. For each episode, Louis CK wrote, directed, edited and played the main character. It has also become my favorite sitcom of all time. So that tells me two things. (1) Enkidum is right in that small writing teams or solo writers make the more interesting,…

for your consideration
AVClub, just a thought: you might want to rename this section from "DVD" if you're going to review blu-rays in it. I haven't been paying attention, so maybe you've done it before, and nobody cares, and I'm just being picky.

Themes and symmetries
This is one of those things where you don't know whether or not I'm reading too much into the show. Anyway, I think the fact that Dr. Incredible and Phantom Limb were reforming this "Boy Brigade" is a counterpoint to the fact that Hank and Dean are going different directions. Kind of like how…

Great catch, Maneki Nekk.

Retarded show
But the DLC xbox game for this show is surprisingly fun.

CCBaxter, I'll grant you that there are some decent early Bond movies (From Russia With Love, absolutely). I forgot about that. But the early good ones were the grittier ones, at least in my estimation. Let me invert what you said: escapism definitely has its place, but when I can't summon suspension of disbelief,…

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