@avclub-5c2c84a07f1206c89c2fc81cee60efa7:disqus, you made my comment for me. When you watch the show on Hulu, Haddie is in every episode for about five seconds, even though she'll never, ever be mentioned again in the show proper.

So is the last SSSIIIMMMSSS!!! review ever?

…New Orleans?

GWAR may not be a band that grew with me throughout my life, but I listened to Scumdogs of the Universe to the point of total memorization as a teen, and I still think they hit on some legitimate musical magic there (among all of the absolutely filthy references to depraved garbage).
Adios, Oderus.

OOOoohh! De-LIGHT-fully ribald!

So… are there any… ribald passages in this book? Hmm? Hmm?

JLU! JLU! JLU! JLU!

Oh man… all of it? Thanks to my brother, I got to walk around in '89 wearing Pixies, R.E.M., Violent Femmes and TMBG T-shirts, which made me totally popular and not at all an object of derision in my middle school!

Of course. Please don't misunderstand. I can't say what kind of actor she is, but I'm sure she's got chops to have earned these roles. But the roles in question — first Mary Jane Watson from the Spider-Man sequel, then this — are of the sort that suggests that she projected some measure of star-wattage to the casting…

This show just makes me laugh so flippin' hard. I can't even explain it, I just go to pieces every time.

I've made your exact observation so many times. It's true.

I stay away from this kind of thing typically because it's too close to your standard internet trollishness, but Shailene Woodley? I don't get it.

It does make me a little curious about how well they sell that concept within the book/film, because it seems like a particularly dumb premise to the uninitiated (i.e., me).
The totalitarian regimes in these stories are all about imposing arbitrary strictures on the specialness of young people. Those bullies!

MacGuffin: I do not think it means what you think it means.

The film got a re-release in 2002 (I can't remember why, as it wasn't a special anniversary), and I was shocked by how hard this song hit me in the theater. I was choking back sobs.
The only other time I've had that reaction in my adult life was when I unsuspectingly flipped on Mister Rogers for my twin toddlers, and…

This has been bumming me out lately. Those two movies are good examples — in both cases I came out thinking, "did anyone involved with that really think they were making something that would last?" Heck, even our Oscar winners have that same same-y, prosaic dullness. Look at The King's Speech. It goes down easy, but…

Pluppets aren't people.

I fully endorse skipping 2. 3 and 4 are great and the first one is spotty, but 2 is just kind of dull.

I'll do 'em right now:
1: Kind of funny; has some raunchy bits; main musical theme is surprisingly memorable
2: Also kind of funny; has Mauser
3: Starting to feel a little less funny
4: This is the one with hijinks
5: Is this the one about the beach?
6: This, improbably, was the first one to strike me as stupid on my first…

I know GP (which is great) has eclipsed it in popular opinion, but I really love III. This surprised the heck out of me, because I was indifferent toward the first one and I disliked the second. There's something very propulsive and fun and confident about that third one that really grabbed me.