Just curious, what were the other two shows?

Liked for recognizing Gaeta. Boy, time did a number on him.

As in "Christmas with the Pilates"?

Looking back, much of the show has basically been a West Side Story rehash.

there's a For Your Consideration from a few days ago on this site where they go into a little more detail on the "controversy", also in the comments.
In short, if people want to be offended by proxy, there's no stopping them

Alphabetical Order is the best Order:

No, she WAS your niece.

He looks an awful lot like Keith Szarabajka.

Good call on Davis. Was going to post this myself, but luckily I did a Ctrl+F first.

Jean De Florette? But Jean Reno wasn't in that.

Spartacus in Latin class.
Everybody as from grade 10 (using US equivalent here) had to watch Casualties of War; The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover; Wait Until Spring, Bandini, Pulp Fiction; Drugstore Cowboy. Curated by the faculty with discussion afterwards.

Oh he knows he's funny.
He's the famous comedian Arnold Braunschweiger.

Give it to us straight, AV club. We should just ditch this show, right?

Madeline Zima? She was like only eight back then. Cut her some slack.

I discovered Awkward. during a season one marathon on our local Belgian/Dutch MTV affiliate where one episode got bleeps and the next one had all the cuss words uncensored.

"There's a bug that looks like dad!"
"Let's kill it!"

Oh you look lovely this evening.

Thanks for clearing that up.

I was always partial to his version of U2's One they played for Clinton once, IIRC

Fuck did I do?