Interestingly, AV Club gave this episode of Bob and David an “A”.

This is a satire issue (and the limits thereto), not a straight-up blackface issue. The fact that this author fails to account for this is totally emblematic of the decline in the quality of the writing on this site.

The sketch used blackface knowingly as an attempt to punch up, skewering both white privilege and police brutality. There was no racial stereotyping, and people of color weren’t the butt of the joke. Its akin to Tropic Thunder, and it is 100% fine. 

You didn’t watch the sketch, did you?

Well the video is marked as private so I can’t quite judge the sketch, but it appears as though the point was, honestly, exactly in line with the times going by the description: Being believed to be black automatically provokes police to violence, and being white gives you a ton of leeway. But I can’t see it so who…

I’m all but done with this site at this point. I just click here because of motor memory and I really just need to clear the cache so it doesn’t pop up anymore. This is a sad facsimile of a facsimile of a facsimile of what was once a great pop culture website with a thriving community.

Remember when The AV Club would report the news, rather than tell you the specific, exact response you should have to it?

“Hey, we don’t serve gay fairies here!”

While Brooklyn Nine-Nine presents their main cast as unrealistically good, it certainly doesn’t paint the wider force in a positive light. If anything, it portrays the 99 as a small group of dedicated police who constantly struggle against politically ruthless or frankly criminal rivals within the force. The most…

I am loving this. Kim’s story isn’t about Jimmy breaking poor ol’ upstanding gal Kim, it’s about her reluctance to accept that she actually loves this hustling shit. It's a nice thematic Breaking Bad parallel - Walt loved being Heisenberg, Jimmy and Kim want to be the outlaw couple.

Kim is right to blame Jimmy for not respecting her decision, but she also has herself to blame (and she knows it), because Jimmy clearly warned her at the beginning that she should think twice before going full Slippin’ Jimmy. And it was clear, knowing Jimmy as she does, that it was a no-turning-back moment: once she…

I can’t respect Kim because of her hypocrisy. She hates her job? OK, quit! Oh, no; she wants the prestige and money that her boss and her client giver her. She lies through her teeth. She looks them both in the eye and claims to be all honest about what is happening.

“The bank manager couldn’t explain where all the extra fees are going. So I followed the money trail. The evidence was as clear as day. My bank was funding terrorism.”

Legally, a person cannot be compelled to testify against his or her spouse. Therefore Kim is proposing marriage because she is all in, in spite of everything.

I am floored.

Except I'm obviously talking about the one that's different every episode. Also, Mort's has been featured a bunch. 

I still maintain that Louise is going to grow up to be Ilana Wexler from Broad City

Funny, I somehow knew you were going to counter with Ava DuVernay. And there’s no doubt she’s a documentarian of enormous talent.

Great? Clearly like the rest of the world you didn't see A Wrinkle in Time.

Detroit has a fine literary tradition. Don’t blame that knucklehead on us. (And there’s nothing wrong with “kick out the jams”, although addressing it to Kathie Lee Gifford might be just as uncomfortable as “f—- me sideways.”)

Okay but out of context that’s a wild sentence