Truthfully, yeah, watching the actual video, that was sort of my response too. Colbert finally asking him, "Anything you didn't like about Russia?" to the audience's clapping, etc., felt like a heroic moment strangely, when it probably really shouldn't have, but it did because of Stone's, uh… whatever the fuck that…

And did you hear about that Vladimir Kara-Murza? He went to the Russian Chinese restaurant and ordered the brown RICIN dish!

Relatedly, Stein herself also has ties to Russia.

"even the vile, toxic Socialists that are tearing apart the fabric of American society"
Wait, what? Who's being referenced here? I'm not tracking.

Sorry, my parents say I can't talk to you anymore.

To his credit, in his role in Silicon Valley, he at least comes off as pretty charismatic and "normal", especially for a child actor.

Ah man. Yeah, I have family members that watch animated stuff and was forced into watching The Secret Life of Pets as well. The contrast is indeed incredible. That movie, TSLOP (I guess), should have been a bunch of intersecting vignettes or something, a la its original trailer. The actual product is terrible.

To some extent, yeah. Pixar hasn't quite faded totally out of relevance, though, in that Inside Out is fantastic. Toy Story 3 was fantastic. There have been many more misses than in the past as they've gone along, sure, including the Cars series, but they're still pretty quality overall.

No, she did. She really did. Compared to what a normal spouse would do when knowing that your spouse slept with a prostitute and even supposedly bragged about getting two rides from her? Her yelling or being mildly frustrated was a dramatic understatement as compared to what would happen in most adult relaitonships…

I think the yelling teeters back and forth for me, too. There are definitely points where you'd ask, why is this strong-willed, capable woman staying with a man like Dougie? Especially in the scene where the photo of him with a hooker is revealed, it's confusing as to why she'd take it so… lightly, I guess.

Ahhhhhhhh, the name and comment synergy. I know that's the joke, but props.

It's interesting reading everyone's take on this. I'll admit that I was pretty late on the Twin Peaks train - I watched the original series just a couple of years ago, after having experienced a lot of the shows that it would later influence. I loved the original show, and slugged it through the uh, lesser parts in…

This thread is weird…

Actually, in nature, that's usually how it goes. Most birds don't go around fucking bees. They just eat the bees, you know?

I'll agree with that. I think that's fairly well said. It's important to be vigilant and always striving for self-improvement, particularly in domains where your behavior impacts others. But, it's not too healthy to continuously be on the offensive and labeling people in negative ways that probably causes people to…

Someone in the comments above seemed to suggest the video was about changing appearances involving many other hairstyles, and watermelon eating happened when she didn't have cornrows, which, if true, seems to muddy the intent. If I felt responsible in this conversation, I'd probably watch the video to confirm that…

I'm totally ignorant here. I've never heard the song being referenced or seen the video, but someone suggested that she has cornrows as part of an ever-changing sequences of images of her with many different hairstyles in the video, and at one point while not having cornrows eats watermelon, and this is the subject of…

I'm not really one to go on and on in discussions like this, but… generally speaking, most people who are really concerned with these matters might say that that isn't how white privilege works, necessarily, in that economic status and skin tone/race is a separate issue. One example is that a white person, poor or…

One thing that really bothered me is that the world feels smaller with the newer, crappier episodes, compared to bigger. Because they give the minor characters these backstories, they often do entire episodes devoted to them - or episodes that revolve almost entirely around stupid celebrity guest stars, which sort of…

Counterpoint: Danny Rand, the main character of the show, came back from being presumed dead, and absolutely no one accepts or believes him, and it takes a great many episodes and a really long grudge through plot machinations before anyone believes him. Then, by the point the character you're talking about comes back…