What, is it Directly-Address-the-TV-Show Day in the A.V. Club office?

If you're just compiling web clips and no one visits your site… close it down, dummy!

Jailhouse Rococo.

Hot chicks?!

Does "Rubber Soul" provoke a "love it or hate it" response? How about Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth's "They Reminisce Over You"? "Fur Elise"? A Richard Serra installation? Fawlty Towers? American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt?

I'm sorry, but that fucking canard about "you either love it or hate it" has got to go. Revel in your ability to understand some great work's intent and execution and still find it merely fine.

Nowadays a woman's gotta hit a man
The dust blows forward 'n the dust blows back.

Leonard Pierce's favorite pre-2010 discovery?

Co-fiance. Let's get it right, please.

To be fair, the journal article was a study on Bulgarian men.

Also,
My wife says Pharaoh said "scables". I guess we'll know he's a star if he has the cue card holder fired.

Cold Open, show vs. tell
Twenty years ago, wouldn't SNL have SHOWN us Obama's kidnapping/development of Stockholm Syndrome? Instead, we get the same tone as in every Armisen/Obama open, sitting in the Oval Office… just terrible. The first time Armisen says he was literally kidnapped, the audience didn't laugh, because…

Cindy Lou Who
CINDY LOU WHO

Until Jimmy held it up…
I didn't make the "Baby Sneezes" connection.

It's the Queer Ducks soundtrack CD.

Buddy Holly glasses? Why not say trucker hats and complete your hate-voyage back in time?

Still not as endearingly terrible as "Hoogie Boogie Land"
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"She's had more boyfriends than Madonna"
Are we still talking about Tull? Jeez. Try this: in the year of 'Funcrusher Plus', the Best Rap Album Grammy went to Puff Daddy and the Family's 'No Way Out'. Or if you want to talk nominees, Dirty-Diddy Money beat out Missy Elliott's 'Supa Dupa Fly'.

"Obviously, it's a good sign when Merge artist The Arcade Fire racks up nominations"
Is it?

Extrapolate a what now?