That's a fair point, but the whole "Barely Tolerable" idea is built on the notion that something is so awful that it should be self evident to the core AV Club audience.

So much for editorial consistency. This site has already reviewed Season 4 of the Killing and gave it a (deserved) A- but according to Amelie it's as bad as Sarah Palin.

Considering that "Keep the Car Running" is basically a cover of "On the Dark Side" from Eddie & The Cruisers - their evolution into an 80s nostalgia act is almost complete.

What a complete joke!

Am I alone in not buying the Piper/Alex storyline one bit? I'm fine with either character, but their relationship makes no sense to me.

Nobody likes Wendy's? What planet do you live on?

Anything that brings us less of the horrible Flying Fairy School I'm all in favor of.

When I lived in Chicago in the late 90s/early 00s, these guys would always seem to get the opening slot for bigger acts at The Metro or other midsize clubs/theatres and they would print up bright, colorful posters that made it look like they were the headliners and plaster them on every available surface in Wicker…

White hipsters from the midwest form guitar & drums duo to pay homage/rip off/water down blues & rock icons of the past. Both have similar names, though the Black Keys got started a few years after the White Stripes, and given the frequency that the White Stripes played in Ohio in the late 90s its not unreasonable…

But it's not like Jack White called his band the Curvy Solo Helicopters.

Are you saying that Jimmy Page & Robert Plant felt a disturbance because Jack White is a watered down version of them, or because they are famous for ripping off and not crediting unsung African American blues artists? Because if its the former, you've got some 'splaining to do!

Tiebreaker: When is Sal coming back?

Yes an iconic television network is the same thing as a low rated sitcom.

As if last week's Mad Men recap wasn't evidence enough, sentences like these: "It’s not as earnest as some of its contemporaries, like My So-Called Life and The Wonder Years, but it’s not as normcore as Full House or Boy Meets World." are exhibits in the case of why Sonia shouldn't be tag teaming reviews of Mad Men's…

Yes, Ginsberg's mental illness is not something that just came out of the blue. They've shown it twice before. Once, in season 5 when he claimed to be a space alien and again last season when he had the panic attack before a big presentation. The nipple incident may have been shocking, but it was not out of character.

The 90s are the decade that begin with 199x, so yes 1990-99 constitutes the 90s.

Mulaney is multi-cam? Is this how it was developed for NBC? My enthusiasm for this has gone down significantly.

It's funny, back when NBC couldn't do anything right it was the only broadcast network that had anything I wanted to watch. Now, once Parenthood is gone, that's it. I will give "Marry Me" a try though.

ABC cancelled Trophy Wife, not NBC.

This has to be good news for Parenthood, right?