I'm surprised AV Club didn't catch this but the title of the episode is actually a nod to the 1971 movie "The Panic in Needle Park."

"it would be harder for the look-alike copies to have the same sound."

Just because Stalin was a communist doesn't mean he wasn't a fascist.

This is a more clever way of saying exactly what I was thinking. I feel like there is extreme trolling going on in this attempt to suggest that the mountainous and borderline sickening portions at Chipotle are half a burrito short of starvation.

The Mooney you're looking for is Nate, not Kyle. Something about that sounded wrong but I haven't seen the show in a while so I did some googling and felt really weird that I found one of the supposed McPoyles attractive. I feel a little bad that looking at the real McPoyle so instantly repulses me but I'll chalk it…

Then the director must have told her to act exactly like Cody Horn because the characters were pretty similar.

Some would argue that murdering Jews to obtain a master race is hogwash and yet, Nazis! Just because it catches the attention of more than a few people doesn't mean it's a reasonable opinion.

It seems like it's barely significant other than a marker and considering the timing of when the first book was published is probably just around the time she was actually writing them.

I generally agree but also find it amusing that there is discussion of realism in the depiction of a wizarding world.

In a way that probably makes the characters more believable and realistic (aside from the magic bits) because Harry was just completely insufferable for most of the fifth book and teenagers at that age really are the wooooorst. Serves him right something terrible would happen as a result (but not really because I was…

Clearly not. I do kind of wish the AV Club story didn't make it sound so serious though because it briefly makes Bruce Campbell sound like he might be a bitter and pompous asshole and I don't like that at all.

what kind of freedom-hating town did you grow up in? schools in Boston got it off when I was growing up.

I first heard this song as the Natalie Merchant cover when I was a kid and even then I simultaneously loved the song and hated her version of it. I can't even pretend to be this great arbiter of taste (especially since apparently even liking this song is more divisive than I realized, according to some of these…

Oh yes, thank you, I certainly haven't heard that one before!

My name is Maria. It's not so much the characters themselves but the infinite number of songs that seems to be associated with all of them that really gets on my nerves and results in a great many strangers singing at me when I first introduce myself.