Much appreciated username/comment synergy. I am not a Pedantic Editor Type and generally don’t harp on the typos here, but... c’mon. He completely missed the joke!

The original joke is that is name was Micheal Sheen. Misspelled.

You know, I’m probably an edge case here, and excuse me for being a sourpuss on the internet, but I didn’t think the last couple Game of Thrones seasons were good.

Generally speaking, the show goes downhill past season four but even the worst seasons have their moments. I don’t regret sticking with it until the end. I’m apparently the only person in the world who didn’t hate the finale with a searing passion.

I would argue that each season up until season 5 (the last I watched, though I did come back for the finale) was worse than the one before it, but there are reasonable arguments to the contrary, and mine is a very book-centric perspective; the logistical/plotting impact of early-season adaptive changes turn out to…

I'll try not to internalize your comment as talking about my body as I grow older ("gracefully"!)

Excellent write up. I get excited to see another article by you come across the feed, while I wait and hope against hope that I may live to see another Block and Tackle series entry. 

Great stuff. Quite literally, John, you could write about *anything* for 5,000 words and I would read it.

It does totally change the flavor profile in that it now tastes like ranch dressing mixed with salsa, where before it tasted like salsa.

Articles like this are why I love the AV Club. This is pop culture geekdom at its finest—a trivial topic treated seriously, written with a kind of comic earnestness, laced with details only a true obsessive would bother to learn. I could read stuff like this all day.

This is exactly why you are seeing so much Teti love throughout the comments. 

So happy to see another fantastic piece from John Teti. I sorely miss his delightful writing. I still frequent the A.V. Club for the pop culture news updates and the discussion/jokes in the comments, but—with the exception of the film reviews from A.A. and Ignatiy—nothing brings me the pure joy of the articles we used…

“As mentioned above, a wheel is a device to transform what could happen into what does happen, with no regard for mortal desires.” You might even say... it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, forwards. It takes us to a place, where we ache to go again. It lets us travel in a way a child travels. Round and round, and…

Massive oversight:

B+?? Why?!  Why?!  Be more constructive with your feedback!  Why?!

Clement: “There’s only one way to settle this.”
In my head: “Rap battle.”
Clement: “Rap battle.”
Me: “YES!”

Poor Jason Mantzoukas never had a chance in a rap battle against the Hiphopopotamus. 

Mantzoukas showing up as a weird psychological abstraction? Derek

This is very similar to what I told my girlfriend in high school when she broke up with me. Except that she wasn’t in the room. Because it was 5 hours later. And I was in the bathroom staring at myself in the mirror. I showed her.