And they can! And they are!

Unfortunately, nothing is out of canon!

I think the difference here is one of motivation. When Moore (and others who do this sort of thing) mashes a bunch of characters together to see what happens, he's playing a game. You're not using these old characters because you want to commercially profit from the affection others have for them, you're doing it…

Larry Zonka!

Oh, that's covered by the "Not-really-giving-a-shit" clause. It's basically a get-out-of-dumb free card.

Ninja'd! This is what happens when I leave a browser tab open for half an hour before reading it.

The idea that the world could be destroyed, and things would still be okay after that, cleared up a lot of my childhood neuroses.

The offense comes, I think, from the assumption inherent in the word, that even having a single black great-grandparent was enough to taint you, like it was some sort of shameful infection or something.

Don't forget the "octoroon," the racist term that sounds like a delicious cookie!

Yeah, I got what the movie was about (with a script so heavy-handed it would be pretty hard not to).

"The point being to use existing, popular figures and breathing new life into them."

I don't LIKE MadTV, mind you. I just think that the majority of the problems with it are in the writing, and the drive to constantly create new "breakout" characters and then drive them deep, deep into the ground.

No, it wouldn't be enough. "Children" simply implies immaturity. But there's a specific set of behaviors, involving the use of peer-pressure, being sweet to someone's face but vicious behind their back, and being exclusionary, on display here that is extremely evocative of the generally-assumed way little girls (in…

My God, that list just summoned the greatest blending of nostalgia and revulsion I've ever experienced.

Marino is the guy, where, you'll be watching some random TV show from the late '90s or early 2000's and you'll go, Oh shit, that's Ken Marino. And then eventually forget about it, until the next time it happens.

Yeah, Wain is really not famous at all, to people on the streets.

Nah, that doesn't sound right. Pop culture is a homogenous mass that everybody must partake of equally. Just keep trying!

I'm kind of sad that you're not a gimmick poster, Malcolm Tucker.

Kind of flabbergasted by someone never having heard of Ed, not because the show was particularly good, but just because I have this sense that it was pretty culturally ubiquitous at the time.

Best moment of the Obama sketch: when Obama tells Luther to rein it in, and Luther translates the admonition to himself. That made me laugh out-loud.