There's such a thing as excessive emotionality. It's a matter of opinion, of course, but I think a stance that denies any tasteful ceiling to emotional expression is the unusual one, not the stance that criticizes unrestrained expression.

“This isn’t us splitting the last one of our eight movies in two to wring blood out of the stone…"

I thought both of those were pretty bad.

Surely Darkwing Duck, arguably the wittiest of the Disney TV cartoons, needs no introduction.

Some of what you say is right. Some of it wrong. Some of it is a misinterpretation, mainly this part: "Americans didn't realize that ethnic Russians have dominated eastern Ukrainian politics for years & years and Putin was responding to them rather than hypnotizing them with his mind waves."

I don't think it's at all accurate that this is meme-proof. It seems like perfectly meme-able material. But I hope that shaming people who meme things works anyway.

I don't think they sound very similar, certainly not compared to the way Boston's "Amanda" sounds like "Someone Saved My Life Tonight." Why is that not a lawsuit?

I thought Stewart himself was pretty much a supporter of the Vietnam War, along with his friend John Wayne. Despite/because/regardless of his stepson's death there.

Eating an Oompa Loompa isn't cannibalism, they aren't humans, they're a whole separate species.

LOL, I enjoyed that. Good job, internet!

In my experience beets is the way to go, whether you're talking Reubens or burgers. I've also had ones that just omit any meat replacement and throw in some hearty vegetables, like olives.

Torchy's Tacos!

It may have been just a failure of language, he didn't seem to be a native speaker of English, and the comment in question didn't fit the tone of the post.

Yes, it certainly is. And you're right, it's never exactly the same.

As a vegetarian who was not always a vegetarian, I used to crave Reuben sandwiches, but two things happened: 1) I stopped craving meat, and 2) I found a lot of vegetarian takes on the Reuben sandwich, it's not really very rare actually.

I saw Belladonna at the Alamo Drafthouse a few weeks ago, and it was excellent. In Japanese, of course, but with English subtitles.

I was wearing a Pokeball on my belt, which was the fashion at the time…

Well, now I know that there's a thing called Skylanders.

You think so? I never really got anything out of Popeye's, it's mostly just fried breading there. KFC's thighs, though, were always pretty satisfying to me. I haven't eaten at either in nearly a decade.

This is very well-written. Parker and Stone clearly love form and style, and they do derive their humor from putting unexpected content into purposefully-familiar structures. They do take fairly strong, if nuanced, political and philosophical stances, though, at times.