He prefers extortion! The “X” makes it sound cool.

“So what comes next, adding live striptease performances in Fantasyland at Disney World?”

I had mixed feelings about the direction Superstore went in later seasons. It started incorporating more real-world workforce issues that most workplace sitcoms are afraid to touch, which was neat, but sacrificed a lot of its humor in the process. Doing that season without America Ferrera let it also be one of the…

Everyone agrees about The Late Philip J. Fry, so I’ll add:

The Simpsons does that asterisk when you talk about it now, though. You have to specify your love of “classic Simpsons” or say “seasons 3-8 and parts of 2 and 9". I can still comfortably talk about my love of Futurama without even mentioning the merely competent revival run.

Yeah, the Comedy Central run faltered most when it tried tackling pop culture - not the best-aging tactic for a show that takes place 1,000 years in the future. (the Napster episode is one of the shakier ones from the original run) The political savvy never came close to “A Head in the Polls” or “A Taste of Freedom”…

The movies were good except for Bender’s Game! The Comedy Central run was a mixed bag but it ended wonderfully, and I thought that was a perfect time to stop. The cracks were showing, but it could still go out on a relatively high note. From what I’ve seen, the general sentiment is nervousness. Especially…

I agree with this. While largely a return to form after Love Is Dead destroyed all their goodwill, I think the singles still left a lot to be desired (excluding the Robert Smith track). I’m happy they still have life in them, but it still didn’t hold a candle to those first two Chvrches albums for me.

I’m happy about this - it’s probably Fox’s only watchable competition series and actually makes you care about the competitors - but it’s held back from true greatness by forced reality show drama that clearly didn’t actually take place on set. Legos are wholesome and this show would easily hold my attention without…

With the Animaniacs at their disposal, this needs a playable Chicken Boo with costumes of every character a la Kirby in Smash Bros. or I’m not interested.

That’s an even dumber name!

I haven’t listened to The Joy Formidable in years, but I always felt like they were ahead of their time. They deserved the career that Wolf Alice currently have.

I definitely did grow out of everything I listened to at 16, which was the emo-pop and cheesy piano rock that infested mid-2000's alternative radio. Those probably paved the way to the more tasteful music I got into in college (I didn’t take a hard swerve into country or turn into a raver, for instance), but I wince…

I remember there was that episode in season 2 where Rick reconnects with an old lover, loses her again, and then nearly commits suicide at the end. My interest in the series piqued here, as it seemed like these wacky characters we watched have fun space adventures in the first season had some dark personal trauma to…

Oh yikes, did not know that. Welp, now even that’s ruined.

Real talk: Is people’s affinity toward the original Space Jam based purely on what an earworm the theme song is?

R&M seems to be one of those shows that the AV Club is, for some reason, legally not allowed to give lower than a B-range grade no matter how harshly they criticize it. Just look at the Westworld reviews that went, “This episode went nowhere, meandered aimlessly, and had an underwhelming payoff to this character’s…

I listened to Rush Limbaugh when I was 19. Flash forward to a few months ago, and I was laughing at his death.

Love both, but to be fair, both are past their prime. I’m definitely looking forward to SK more of the two and am intrigued by what a pure Carrie/Corin album will sound like, but Modest Mouse have been on autopilot since “We Were Dead...”

Mad Max: Furry Robe