This could be interesting… I assume they cut out several boring family meals and hospital visits. Then again, the show needed the grounding in Walt's everyday life to support the story of his secret life, and needed time to show the escalation of danger (and of his hubris). Yet that first short season is shocking…

"Lady from the Wheat Thins commercial" is a curious way to describe thrice-Tony-nominated, spunky, ageless, all-around awesome Sandy Duncan.

That super hot Myra was still there.

Enjoying all the various articles and interviews celebrating the 20th anniversary of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's TV premiere. In particular, my avatar namesake, my hero Giles is still honored by the ever-thoughtful Tony Head who wrote a wonderful piece for the Guardian:
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HAHAHAHAHHAHA!

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Does that crowd also scoff at the common belief that The Simpsons' golden era ended somewhere around S6-7-8? Do they think it's still good?

From Teacher's Pet, I only meant the bits about academically-challenged Buffy having a teacher who saw potential in her (then of course he meets his demise). Teachers are rarely given any presence on the show for the rest of the high-school years, except for Jenny Calendar.

Charisma spanked him, huh? "Cordelia — the spatula!"
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Heh. They did get James Marsters, who's totally game as he always has been for this show, but yeah, I'm not holding my breath for Sarah, Aly, Tony or David.

You could extract just the bits of Buffy's backstory and early interests & motivations from Welcome To The Hellmouth, The Harvest, Witch and Teacher's Pet, and they would comprise something much better than this movie.

I don't know how the UK critics treated the soaps, but I assume they generally got a tepid response. Certainly they're not all-time great dramas, but I really loved EastEnders back in the '90s, airing on PBS in the states. OK, so Martine McCutcheon was a big factor, I admit…

I will stand by Family Guy's original run of 3 seasons, which I think absolutely deserved to continue based on the quality of its best episodes. The latter part of season 3 particularly was on a roll, right up to its cancellation. It was never important, never expanded the genre, but was very funny and hadn't yet…

Yet another opportunity to remember that Eric Cartman viewed Kid Rock videos, when preparing to go undercover as a "retard" in the Special Olympics.

In fairness, not everyone is obsessively following everything on AV Club as, for example, I do (or as, for a more extreme example, you do).

I think maybe this feature should be called "Character Blurb".

Chome on PC here as well, and mine looks pretty normal when I click to expand the comment area. The article is then hidden, but you can toggle the Expand button to show it again; I'm thinking this change might actually be helpful for scrolling the article while keeping your active comment window fixed and visible.

I'm only seeing some avatars properly, but that might be a fixable bug.

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I'm afraid I am rather a completist. Also I enjoy cross-referencing.