Why does Sony seem stuck in early 2000's comic book movies. 

Good. Literally nobody is blaming the actors for this strike.

Excellent point made by someone on Twitter:

They never actually use that label trans, but that’s mostly because everything is always from Chandler’s POV, and Chandler refuses to recognize her choices. It is made clear that she is living life as a woman, and that it’s not just a drag persona that she adopts for stage. We never see her dressed as a man, and the…

I remember a time when liberals were allowed to laugh at jokes. BECAUSE THEY’RE JOKES. The joke is Lucille’s comment is she thinks the protestors are ruining the party, and Michael misunderstands and thinks she’s mad at her hairdresser. See, it’s a joke.

But it remains an accurate portrait of how many Orange County denizens behave (I could give you regular reports ...).

MiFroChi: Doesn’t get the butt of the joke is the old assholish lady.  Or that I could possibly ever think to ask that question, apparently.  Thank god you’re here to be ‘sensible’.

Pitter patter let’s get at ‘er then, consume all that comedy and bring me your report!

I don’t believe it’s objectively outdated at all, it still applies to modern sensibilities and does not punch down at any marginalized group.

A self-centered septuagenarian wouldn’t today complain about being upstaged by a group she finds obnoxiously attention-seeking, while actually announcing what kind of person she is? I think this joke is easily written the same way. This is not some downward-punching gay joke.

We don’t even see them except from a distance. They haven’t “done” anything. Meanwhile we learn a ton about her in two sentences, and Bateman’s crack takes her down yet another peg.  The joke hasn’t aged one minute.

This is what has gotten frustrating about modern conversations around identity politics.

That’s a bit more of a legit argument but I’m of the opinion that we need to make fun of asshole cops like that even harder at this point.

‘Some usual suspect’, eh? Can you explain what I ‘usually’ do that would make me a ‘suspect’, in this case?  Can you tell me how you’re sure I’m ‘performing ignorance’?  Because I’m not, I legitimately do not know how this aged badly because it’s in no way making fun of gay people or painting them in anything but a…

Is “homosexuals” a slur now? Pretty sure there were much worse words that were extremely common in 2003 that have aged a lot worse than the actual dictionary term for gay people.

I don’t understand that either. For the most part, the Bluth’s are reprehensible people. We are laughing at them. Lucille’s outrageous behavior, in an expert deadpan by Jessica Walter, is to be mocked by the audience. These characters are funny and a lot of the humor comes from their general unlikability.

Did we miss that Lucille is not meant to be a sympathetic character, and that calling them dramatic and flamboyant (while being dramatic and flamboyant) is not meant to be an endorsement of being horrible?

“She’s referring to a boat of gay protestors that she worries will upstage her husband’s party. (Maybe not everything on the show has aged well.)“

“Maybe not everything on the show has aged well.”

It’s such a fundamental aspect of modern capitalism that people refuse to believe things have a shelf life, and that no matter how popular or god forbid profitable something is, one day, even if everything goes perfectly to plan, that thing will stop being both. It’s happened in broad public view thousands of times…