I said this just the other day, but the reason the press keeps talking about Joe Biden’s debate performance is because he hasn’t done anything else scandalous since then.  Convicted Felon Donald Trump’s strategy is to have a new scandal every 27 hours so that the press can’t focus on any one thing for too long.

I suppose it’s probably best given the state of the world these days that the REM pick wasn’t “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)“.

The return of a proper AV Club is giving me a proper AV Chub.

Between JD Vance and Aileen Cannon, there’s batshit insanity happening roughly every two hours.

So he’ll talk about it on Tuesday unless some other batshit insanity happens between now and then.

Well, the gambling/pools on the awards are fun, and eliminating two categories really diminishes that.

I would love to have been a fly on the wall when someone on the Minions crew realized they would have to deal with how the Minions would definitely have been Nazis.

idk, it’s not up my musical alley so I couldn’t even name an INXS song, but they were picking things that would be fun and challenging to cover and would require people to do something different than what they normally do.  Maybe INXS will sound more palatable to you filtered through another artist.  That’s the…

I missed Tone Loc at the bottom of the list. I guess that meas Constructive Summer” isn’t on the list?

“That would be the Sing series, which tries to turn the studio’s basic-ass music taste into some kind of guiding principle of insincere uplift”

“that a single dad with non-biological children”

This the kind of incisive analytical skill that the AV Club is losing now that we’re suffering under the thumb of our new Paste overlords.

That does sound like a great essay, albeit a little on the short side. 

See, now this really does feel like the AV Club of yore. An article where the writer has clearly had to suffer, significantly, for many many hours, in order to put together a retrospective that’s so much more insightful than the relative crap it’s covering deserves that the contrast is staggering.

You also have to consider that animated films have very long production times(especially at a monolith like Disney) and who knows what was in the pipes when Katzenberg left.

Yeah, it was the rare case of Disney seeming to want to jump on the DreamWorks bandwagon (though I’d also argue that Shrek was basically DreamWorks-ing Fractured Fairy Tales or any number of self-aware fairy-tale spoofs). The final product isn’t much in that tone (and is much better than any Shrek!) but you can see…

From the Wikipedia: “In October 2003, the film was announced as Rapunzel Unbraided as a computer-animated feature scheduled for a 2007 release, which Keane described as ‘a Shrek-like version of the film’.”

I mean, a person just going “Buuuuuuuuhhhhhh...” while staring at the camera for 90 minutes would be funnier than Garfield. 

Classic fairy tales made “hip.”

Both are supposed to be subversive, or at least irreverent, send-ups of fairy tales.