Can we all just agree that Barney is the worst of all children’s entertainment? No, I don’t love you, you purple monstrosity! Don’t claim that I do!

Have they even written any new material since Biafra left or have they just been covering their own shit for the last 30 years or so?

IIRC, in the original books Caillou is a toddler but they aged him up for the show by just stretching out the character design a little.

The real question is what the Dead Milkmen (an infinitely better band) has to say on the subject.

Arthur is a good kid that encourages kids to read. Caillou is a whiny little bitch. 

Caillou is French for ‘pebble’, hence the kid’s smooth, stone-like head. It’s just a Charlie Brown-style visual abstraction. The show is based off of a series of books by a French-Canadian author which were, while banal and too-cute, not nearly as terrible as the cartoon show.

This article seems to have conflated “Let’s Lynch the Landlord” and “I Kill Children” into “Let’s Kill the Landlord,” but I feel like the fact that it’s so easy to amalgamate Jello’s writing actually helps make his point stronger re: the consistency of this politics and pet themes...

As far as Johnny Rotten goes, has anyone ever taken his politics seriously? Has he ever taken politics seriously? I always saw him as “punk” in the trying-to-piss-people-off mold, not like Crass or Discharge who were actually political... and these days, what’s more troll-y than supporting Trump and Brexit?

And I’m…

Jello once called the nu!Dead Kennedys “the world’s greediest karaoke band” and it’s a spot on fucking description.

The best dunk:

I knew that parenthood would be a big learning experience, but I didn’t expect to learn quite so much medical minutiae about the urogenital system. After getting rescheduled 3 times this year, though, “operation butthole” (as I’ve been calling it) was a success, and we’ll be getting our first poopy diapers from the…

The terminology may not be to your liking, but I think some people do need to hear that no potential partner is perfect. There are people out there who seem to think that they can—or at least should be able to—have a partner made practically to order, like life is Weird Science. (What is incel philosophy except an…

It’s time for Savage Nobody! The advice column that didn’t get coal this Christmas!

I had never seen “Sharkboy & Lavagirl”, and I assumed they were siblings. It was thus quite a surprise to hear they had a daughter.

believe me I’m counting the days until its patched up enough for me to play it and not get pissed off at it crashing or looking like shit

Fans of Tiny Toons will remember there was one gag credit that changed with every episode. In one episode, they did a little music video for The Name Game. The fake credit for that episode says, “Intentionally omitted from The Name Game: Plucky”

What can I say? The game brought me peace. Of course it doesn’t need my endorsement; it’s not making any “best of” lists, but there is a zen calm it induces.

The first section was my favorite part! As much as I love the book as a whole, that first section (basically everything up to the manhunt in the woods) could work on its own as a novella/short story. It’s so unsettling and strange and disturbing that the rest of the book is a bit of a come-down.

I wish you guys would print these goddamned things again.  I love the feature, but would far rather read it.  I’m a very good reader, old-fashioned as that may seem.

Can you please return to Random Roles being written articles? I have no interest in watching these videos. This whole industry wide “pivot to video” is nonsense.