"I saw this in a movie once. We're not real bank robbers until I cut off this cop's ear."

I didn't. @avclub-b97ca122d91f0a094bbf3f9808f4daf5:disqus took care of that from jump.

No, it's almost like … wait for it … clusterfucking!

Definitely this too.

You forgot *squints eyes, sighs heavily, pffts in disgust, shifts nervously, tucks strand of hair behind ear, curls lip like proto-Billy Idol* or some variation thereof.

If anyone deserves a bit of over-the-top hero worship it's Giorgio fucking Moroder. I got chills the first time and practically every listen since whenever he says "My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me Giorgio." Bitch, you betta recognize!

I'm not mad at this.

Booster Gold or GTFO.

Awkward!

“I used to be a black plantation worker in a past life or a choir teacher in the 1950s because I’m gravitationally pulled to Savannah, Georgia,” is both offensive and nonsensical, not to mention something I would totally expect an overprivileged, gay, former boy-bander to say. Duh.

Monae's rap is one of the worst parts of the song for me. Her clunky flow is like those of every other non-emcee you've heard drop a rhyme. And the lyrical content is total elementary school auditorium assembly during Black History Month verse.

I dig both Janelle Monáe and Erykah Badu but this song is just awful. It sounds like a really lazy slew of funk signifiers from two artists who can do so much better.

@avclub-ad834430749e78c48a6092f873a96dca:disqus You're right, of course. But I was surprisingly not as distracted by the wrong sounding Muppets as I was by the wrong sounding jokes and tone of the whole miserable thing.

I think it was established an episode or two ago in the scene with his estranged wife at her restaurant that Lucero's happy-go-luckiness is mostly a facade. He also confessed to that when Cooper tried to get Lucero to think of her and his kids to give him some hope and will to survive their harrowing ordeal. So it…

Well said. 'Nuff said.

Don't forget the clink of his badge hitting the ground after he drops it. The only  point in the whole episode where he actually surrenders. Heartbreaking.

It shouldn't be a struggle to laugh at a Muppet movie.

Yeah, Chloe Moretz is too pretty to be Carrie but she's a good actress and so forth and so on. But at the end of the day, having your first period in front of a locker room full of girls and proceeding to freak the fuck out about it because your religious zealot of a mom sheltered you so much that you aren't aware…

I watched The Muppets for the first time last weekend and found it pretty dismal, nostalgia be damned. I realize its a reference to a genre of literature and has different connotations but "young-adult" seems to be a pretty good descriptor of how the comedy and themes of The Muppets traditionally straddled the line…

So is the show as racist, sexist, homophobic and classist as the magazine?