The super weird thing about Ross is that he always says things are "more fun than kicking the dog," which always struck me as a super violent metaphor incongruous with his gentle image.

If he hadn't held that weird press conference where he talked for half an hour about how much "adversity" he's had to overcome when he got out of the initial accusation on a technicality I feel like he would be having a much less shitty time of it.

Speaking as the person who always did this: someone with their hands on the pointer-thing definitely manipulated it to fuck with everyone else.

I bet comedians hate playing there, though.

Seems like incentivizing not laughing is..
Kind of the worst possible thing a comedy club could do?

Sure, although it's probably earlier in the process than we ever heard anything about Bridesmaids due to the franchise involved (and the fact that they're kind of starting with the franchise and going from there, rather than making the thing first and then doing press, like with Bridesmaids).

Sure, but probably the vast majority is people old enough to have seen the original when it was new, they'll surely drum up more merch sales among younger folks by releasing this new one (not to mention the actual ticket sales, which will probably include inflated 3D prices, because come on, of course there will be a…

True, but that's what is happening here too. It's not like there was a press release from Columbia or a trailer with a heavy "THEY'RE WOMEN!" bent, Feig just mentioned in an interview that it's going to be a female cast.

- Every movie studio executive Paul Feig has spoken to for the last three weeks

I'm going to think of him as "Larry Cable Guy" (like, as if that's his full legal name) from here on out.

Obviously, the answer is money. A shitload of people are going to go see anything that says "Ghostbusters" and has that logo and that Ray Parker Jr. theme song, and buy the T-Shirts and whatever other merch.

Actually, Bridesmaids did spawn a rash of "Turns out, women are funny!" and "Women can be vulgar too, not just Seth Rogen!" articles and crap, which was frankly way worse than with this movie, since it is somewhat of a gimmick for the reason that they're remaking a classic movie where all the main characters' genders…

Also the shitty cartoons that they made which have already besmirched the original's characters and universe and yet nobody really complains about those.

That's odd considering both Dick York and Dick Seargent are about as white as you can get.

Or Ignatz mouse!

A million asshole fraternity villains in slobs vs. snobs college comedies, and an abusive alcoholic in Superman III. Although, I once lamented that there are no good "Brads" in pop culture and I was reminded that Brad Pitt, possibly the most famous man alive, is named Brad, so (although his real name is William, and…

Bob's Burgers is super great, obviously, but you're probably safe in that it's such a dog-whistle of a show that it'll never have anywhere near the following that The Simpsons or Family Guy had in their heydays. I've never seen anyone wearing a Bob's Burger's t-shirt, for example.

I'm sort of concerned about Parks and Rec due to them doing the time-jump thing which I've never seen work out well (particularly laughable both here and on Weeds). At least they only jumped three years, so we're spared gray wigs and old-age makeup. I'm willing to give Mike Schur and company the benefit of the doubt,…

I think it's actually better if it's just some unknowable thing. Mission Impossible 3 did this as well, with the "Rabbit's Foot" (the central macguffin of the movie) only ever being hypothesized as being potentially "the Anti-God," and never explained definitively.

Also that one episode of The Office where Jim subtly convinces Dwight that he's a vampire.