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    Just as I'm writing this, dcdave makes me reconsider the idea of both sides having points. Thanks a lot, raging "anti-PC" troll!

    I think a year ago I would've heartily agreed with anyone calling out the term "PC" as a buzzword people use as an excuse to be assholes and disregard others' feelings (and the way the term itself is being used, it still holds true), but after spending an extended time on Tumblr (note: do not do this), I can't think

    I don't think I've ever beaten the World 8 Airship without a P-wing.

    Did you find both exits in the Forest Ghost House? And both the real and the fake one in that one level on Chocolate Island?

    He went on a telegram rant at the same time.

    Pretty boring episode. The idea of Marge in a job where she has to make morally dubious choices is promising, but "Will she tell Flanders he lives in a murder house?" is just about the dullest conflict you could have gotten out of it. Homer's quickly becoming more and more obnoxious by the episode at this point, too.

    "Fun" fact: the first season's theme was What A Wonderful World. I find that so bizarre. The credits go perfectly with the cheesy Miller-Boyett theme.

    It was funny how a show called "Family Matters" had absolutely no regard for members of the family unless they had some sort of dynamic with the neighbor kid. Everyone who wasn't interacting much with Urkel was eventually pushed out. The youngest daughter was by far the most obvious, but the grandmother, Aunt Rachel

    I think the confusion stems from the poorly worded FAQ on the original site which stated JTS was "a defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on…it's all downhill." Which can be interpreted as the JTS moment and the peak being one and

    Sometimes I'm nostalgic for the old JTS website. It was obviously flawed in a lot of ways, and the discussions for then-current shows inevitably became a place to complain how much the latest episode sucked, but it was the first place I saw TV shows being discussed critically, passionately and geekily, and back then

    Oh man, The Farnsworth Parabox is fantastic. Wonderfully manages to mine character comedy out of the high concept premise, but at the same time, has lot of fun with that premise, literally adding new dimensions to it as it goes on. In some ways it's the ideal Futurama episode to me. Big Boys is much less successful in

    The cave levels in Yoshi's Island are so beautiful.

    They'd figured that out almost twenty years earlier. The Brady Bunch?

    I mean, it's right there in the title. I understand not reading the articles, but…

    The story was roughly that Will and Jack watch their favorite show and the camera pulls ways when the two gay characters are about to kiss, so they go protest at NBC and end up kissing in front of the camera (on the show within the show and the actual one).

    The German dub has a howler: when Homer announces that he'll tell the true origin of Maggie's pacifier next in the dub he says he'll tell the story of how they got Maggie to calm down, to which Marge answers "sedatives"! (That's apparently an alternate meaning for pacifier. Makes sense they'd mean that when talking

    I don't think the AitF mention is related to the sentence before it

    I think maybe at the time, Twin Peaks wasn't really regarded as that influential because it hadn't influenced that many shows? I dunno, of course there was The X-Files and stuff, but it seems to me TV programs overall were still pretty traditional at that point. The times when they became more daring formally and in

    This is one of four episodes Jean and Reiss (who had left the show by that point) showran during the season seven production cycle to lift weight off the regular staff's shoulders and fulfill Fox's episode order (the others are Springfield Files, Shari Bobbins and Simpson Tide). They ended up airing at various points

    Well, he's right about the ending.