You sound like a product of our time rather than an anomaly.  Although 80s shows often placed blondes in the "hot" roles, there was also a strong undercurrent against that trend.  A recurring epiphany in 80s movies, after all, was the protagonist discovering that he really loved his (hot) brunette friend, not the…

And premarital "p in v sex" was fairly common: a significant proportion of first babies were conceived out of wedlock (partly because marriage was a less formalized and ritualized process—sometimes couples were regarded as effectively wed as soon as they engaged to be wed).  There was an aphorism in nineteenth-century…

@avclub-fec1b8d3fbc08f27a84e5a334d45bb5a:disqus Yep, I was trying to make the point that Plymouth was a much wilder place than people tended to believe.  By IWPFTQ's logic, I also equate gay sex with straight sex, and gay sex with drunken bacchanalia, and straight sex with drunken bacchanalia, and so forth.

Cameron went to the wrong reenactment.  One of the Pilgrim Fathers, William Bradford, worried about how authorities "could not suppress the breaking out of sundry notorious sins (as this year, besides other, gives us too many sad precedents and instances), especially drunkenness and uncleanness.  Not only incontinency…

SPOILER RE: BARN

No, the big twist is that all of the piranha had apprenticed themselves to the Piranha King until their 21st birthday and, since they were born on Leap Day, they can't marry Mabel until they turn 84.

I'm convinced that Rabin has decided to approach these reviews as some sort of gonzo performance art piece—the real intent isn't to summarize and analyze the episode but to adopt different personae and provoke a reaction from the audience.  His coverage of 30 Rock is his I'm Still Here; it's a metacommentary on the…

I did the same thing.  I can't imagine anyone slamming Ralph.  He looked a little dinky on his bike, but he rocked the cover of Ralph S. Mouse in his sleek black car: 
http://cliqueypizza3.files….

I can't speak to its readership, but The Economist generally contains intelligent and evenhanded journalism.  It has its biases, but the biases are ideological rather than partisan—or at least that has been historically true.  Sadly, in recent years, it has begun to adopt some of the inane rhetoric of the Republican…

I assume Murray—Present wasn't talking about Lin faring well in China right now, but about how he would have fared had he been born and raised in China.  The article states that players in China are basically cultivated from an early age based on factors like height which Lin does not possess.  I believe M-P is…

The Economist has an interesting article about this very subject, which seems to have been inspired by "Linsanity" rather than Yardley's book, which the article doesn't mention: 
http://www.economist.com/bl….  The article seems to note the same thing as Yardley—that China's rigorous discipline is great for cultivating…

Make his arch-nemesis Dr. Spaceman and it becomes ten thousands times more awesome.

If in some smothering firstie you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung Wrath in,
And watch the bowler hat writhing on his head,
His hanging head, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the fire-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as canceraids, bitter as the cud
Of vile,…

Rubens sandwich.

Sadly, Marvel beat him to it: 
http://marvel.wikia.com/Goo….

Give me back my atoms!  I assume you still have them, which means you must have assumed it first.

No, Riggins is the one who was into Broadway musicals.

This couldn't have happened five years ago, when NBC would have received an anonymous tip from the Patriots' bench about MIA's offensive hand signals.

I would suggest that the "weirdness" of the monologue would have appealed to Leno's audience in a certain way.  This was an era when prejudice against gays was only just beginning to recede beyond the limits of mainstream acceptance, so the Leno crowd could applaud itself for being "progressive" by applauding the…

I don't think I was ever part of the Scrubs hatefest, but I did lose interest after enjoying the first few seasons.  Some time around Season Five, something changed.  My wife and I bought the first seasons on dvd and tore through the first ones eagerly but, at around the fifth season, we just stopped watching at some…