I was very much willing to go along with the mother dying idea as an interesting plot move—my beef is that they yadda-yadda'd the mom dying. If you're gonna kill her off, you've gotta handle it with more seriousness than you can get out of five seconds in a montage.

Yeah, I was never a No Doubt fan—never owned the album—but "Spiderwebs" is a pretty great pop song, and I definitely like it more now than I did in my indie-snob college years when it came out.

Yeah, with all the A's they've been throwing at this slightly-above-average sitcom season, I guess they're going to have to invent new letters of the alphabet if any of the last few episodes happen to be really good.

It's because it beat Pulp Fiction. If Forrest Gump had been made one year later, when it would have beaten out Braveheart and Apollo 13, it wouldn't be so hated. I actually kinda like the Gump, but it winning over Pulp Fiction is ludicrous, and that fact has generated a big chunk of the vitriol directed its way.

Some bands I like to name check…

"By the end of the ’90s, when the grunge movement pretty much said all it had to say, and the alternative scene got to this point where The B-52s and R.E.M. were partnering together to make these pop hits…"

I've always enjoyed the "Relationship"/"nasal drip" rhyme in "Jenny and the Ess Dog".

That was my interpretation.

I have come from the future to say that your grade for this show is fucking idiotic. This episode had basically everything I love about this show, perfectly executed: DeVito looking weird as shit (the 80's corporate raider outfit was hilarious); Dennis being a sociopath; Dee being a terrible actress; Mac and Charlie…

I have come from the future to say that your grade for this show is fucking idiotic. This episode had basically everything I love about this show, perfectly executed: DeVito looking weird as shit (the 80's corporate raider outfit was hilarious); Dennis being a sociopath; Dee being a terrible actress; Mac and Charlie…

Agree with this—Live at the Old Quarter is an amazing performance, and basically functions as a Greatest Hits album without being called a Greatest Hits album. It is absolutely the best starting point.

That's definitely true for me.  The Nirvana era basically lasted from when I was 14-17, and yeah, it defined the sound that pretty much defined my adolescence.  I love that band in a way that won't admit any detachment.  By the time the Foos came along, I was in college and pretty deep into Matador/Kill Rock Stars…

That's definitely true for me.  The Nirvana era basically lasted from when I was 14-17, and yeah, it defined the sound that pretty much defined my adolescence.  I love that band in a way that won't admit any detachment.  By the time the Foos came along, I was in college and pretty deep into Matador/Kill Rock Stars…