Well, The B-52s did do the theme for Rocko's Modern Life, so you have a point…

I'm surprised Alicia was able to be so chummy with Finn as Finn was putting the screws to Cary. Yeah, it's his job, but still….if I were Alicia, I wouldn't be able to be friends with someone who was trying to send my partner and friend to prison for decades.

@avclub-c94bc15a4f66c7780527bc1b1a61574a:disqus - You had me with the "I don't give a crap how 'hot' a guy is / Looks mean nothing to me / Everyone is beautiful in my eyes" stuff, but you lost me with "unless you're a horrible person."

They've shown Ned Flanders floating up to heaven in the opening before though.

It was a middle finger to David Lee also. A lot of the people who left with Diane were Lee's proteges.

I dunno, I think The Good Wife gets some good hype and reviewer love. Maybe I just read different critics, but it seems pretty universally beloved.

Yeah, but to do that would tip her hand regarding the state of her marriage. Alicia has decided that being married to Peter is beneficial to her (and she's right!), which is why she's keeping up the charade of a happy marriage. If she owned the apartment herself, instead of co-owning it with Peter, it would raise…

Yeah, I remember thinking that no bail bondsmen thing was weird enough to be true. I wonder how the state functions without bail bondsmen?

Yeah, but Parenthood takes place in a parallel universe where the Bravermans can do whatever they want if they set their minds to it (except run for mayor, but even then, Kristina did way better than she would have been able to in the real world).

Max was right though: they should've asked him what he wanted before building the whole freaking school for him. Wow, I hate that plotline…

"Never read the comments" is a good internet rule generally (with the exception of the AV Club).

Actually, back then, everyone called her Gillian (and again, with a hard "g").

It is real! I went to HS with her, and we were chums back then, though we lost touch after graduation (though we are Facebook friends these days, of course).

Well, Tattoonine is a slave planet, so maybe JJ was just going for extra realism?

I use black. It's fine, isn't it? I think "African-American" is kinda silly, and even a little patronizing.

"This time, why not the worst?"

Ugh, someone getting in trouble for saying "niggardly" is fucking ridiculous because it's a completely different fucking word! Different meaning, different root and everything. What, are words that sound vaguely like the "N-word" going to be verboten now too? What are we going to say when we want to say the opposite…

I dunno, I'm pretty numb to "the N-word," mostly from living in minority neighborhoods for the last decade or so. My previous neighborhood was about half-Latino, give or take, and they dropped "the N-bomb" quite a lot, but not nearly as much as the people in my new, predominantly-black neighborhood. It kinda takes the…

Brits DO toss the "c word" (and I don't mean "cancer") around quite liberally, and what's more, they use it in a gender neutral way. In the US, it's a horribly mean word for a woman, but in the UK (and Ireland), it seems to be a somewhat off-color way to refer to anyone, male or female.

I remember an episode of 30 Rock where Tracy said he knew every possible racial slur, no matter how obscure, so he would know when to be offended. It seems to me that only someone with that level of slur awareness would get offended at "maroon" on racial grounds.