I always imagine there being a cigar-chomping chief of the AV Club.

This is as succinct a criticism of the American health insurance racket as I’ve read just about anywhere. It would be a scathing opening statement to a congressional hearing. As you pointed out, not that it would do much good.

As you point out, that is how the insurance industry works. They will try to avoid paying out claims at all costs. They are fully aware that it is extremely stressful and time consuming to get reimbursement and know that a good percentage of clients will just give up at some point. 

I’m calling major b.s. on the “It’s difficult to learn new codes in such a small amout of time” shit. When the school that I word at shut down last year, all of our teachers spent less than a week figuring out how to transition their in person classrooms to online. Our Algebra teacher (who is very old school) had to…

Well, partly. It was also partly the point that no matter how “good” any slave-owner can be, there was no security for the slave. Uncle Tom was sold by the Shelbys, who at least fed the slaves well and let them read and write; to the St. Clares, who lived a precarious life; down to Simon Legree, with his whip. (Arthur…

Didn’t she try to say Arsenio Hall gave her drugs and he threatened to sue, and she backpedaled the statement? Yeah I don’t believe her.  

I’m trying to wrap my head around the sight of Prince and Sinead O’Connor involved in a foot chase through L.A. in the middle of the night and NOT have “Yakety Sax” play in my head when I do.

Her arch-nemesis is the kid who drew the big tits on the shed.

I don’t think Joshua did. He got her name wrong, but he said “ the mother of Betty’s arch-nemesis.” Which is poorly worded—Betty didn’t dislike Mare, but Mare was annoyed with her for pestering her—but a jokey way of saying it without using names. Since Alston says it got the biggest laugh, finding out that it was…

Mare’s mom even says that calling it an affair was a stretch, she only slept with him two, maybe three times, and that shows how little it meant to her.

I know. I just stopped reading right there. That’s just fucking embarrassing. Even if you misheard the name (and at first I wasn’t sure who he was talking about when he said the name), it’s quite obvious from Mare’s and Mare’s mom’s reactions that Mare’s mom was the “other woman.”

Very solid Silence of the Lambs riff, especially the use of Judas Priest as they enter the house.

How did you manage to miss that Mare’s mom is the one who had the affair with Mr. Carroll? What did you think she was laughing about in the car?

I was thinking along those lines. It’s not as though we’ve seen a ‘successful’ aunt, so we don’t have a comparison. Perhaps Lydia is seen as successful because of the number of births on her watch.

June has run away three times now. End of season one, end of season three, and just two episodes ago. Maybe the other aunts are worse at their jobs though? Maybe they all microwave fish and always hit “reply all.”

We all know that terrible manager who always seems to fail upwards.

As much as I love Chicago, nobody gives a shit about their tacos. NOT. ONE. SHIT.

He wanted to “Old Yeller the dog?????" What a fucking asshole. 

I remember Mark Twain’s characterization of his mother, a kind person before her possession of a child slave hardened her.

Don’t forget the socialite who pushes her foreign maid down the stairs because the maid did not lay out the correct dress the socialite wanted to wear to that charity gala for the poor.