Actually, Jimmy goes on tv to beg for Obamacare for his own millionaire self.

I would have preferred an "earnest" approach or a tough-minded satire. It makes me admire David Hasselhoff (what an odd thing to write!) for not participating beyond allowing them the rights to the property, for a financial consideration, admittedly.

I don't see that as wasted potential as much as it's fervently wishing the cast could rise above the material (which, in movies, is nearly impossible). I should acknowledge I really hate "soft" parodies of old shows just on principle; they have the least integrity of all the property cash-ins out there.

You gave a good answer.

But what potential is in that? What value is there in mocking, gently or not, such crummy, empty material? I feel much the same way about 21 Jump Street, since almost no one remembered the series (which wasn't bad for what it was, a "cool cops" show in the Miami Vice tradition). At least The Brady Bunch Movie had…

Only when the ball-busting is GGG.

How can a Baywatch movie have "wasted potential"? What potential could there be to be wasted?

"I don't fuck around with basic cable." What does this even mean?

He's not smiling now.

"Who" not "whom" because the verb "is" requires a subject.

But if they give you few articles other than the ones that you don't want (like the dumb Trump articles) there isn't much of an option. The AV Club used to be better than this.

Does it insist upon itself?

I concede the point. Good research! Term still grates, though.

It is that complex—or complex at all.

You are right about the pre-dating, but I still think the term is irritating as hell.

Can we retire the term 'shipper, already? It's also kinda odd to have an already trite phrase used to describe viewers almost two decades before it was coined.

I love the tossed off "we had a devil of a time getting it here" as the sole explanation for the block of Stonehenge being in the plant. I know they originally planned a more elaborate backstory for its transportation, but it's more amusing this way.

Initially, Carpenter claimed that it was Laurie Strode's sexual repression that sort of "wished him" back to Haddonfield to begin with, which is a kind of fascinating take. But it was probably inevitable that Laurie would be ret-conned as his sister, since violence towards his sister related to sexual activity seems…

How many Black, female, queer, or avant-garde poets get a shot at that kind of self-promotion?

Rabin's Nashville or Bust is, to this day, one of the greatest columns the AV Club has ever seen. I get the feeling writers online are in the same position computer programmers used to be in the 90's: if you're in your twenties, you are in demand; over thirty, they have no use for you. Stupid, stupid, stupid.