"What a pitiful plan…"

I can't seem to hold them all in my head. It's like I can remember all but one at any given time. If I remember Ali, I forget about Shandling. "Oh God, Garry Shandling died, too! How could I possibly forget that!?" and, boop!, there goes Wilder…

There's an audience-analysis Venn diagram I'd be interested in seeing.

"You may fire when ready."

Hey, that light saber was rigged. Crooked Yoda, up to his old tricks.

America's Lowest Production-Revenue Ratio.

Well, I didn't watch the trailer, but I'm willing to bet Betty & Veronica have absurdly unrealistic figures, as well. So there's that creepy little piece of verisimilitude …

If I could figure out how to buy you a drink for this joke, I would.

Give it a chance, though. Don't get up in his grill without a fair listen.

"You can't leave! All the plants will die!"
adorable fern reaches out and gasps: "Water! Water!"

That or we'll all be loudly giving thanks to him for his guidance and protection, and for providing the loaf of bread and 3 chicken wings for our dinner, out of fear that the others at the meal will report us to the secret police.

Politics never came up. Not once. I almost brought it up myself a couple times in a "I can't stand the tension, let's steer the car off the cliff" kind of way.

(Presumably?) relatively non-controversial opinion: It seems fair to say he hasn't evolved as an artist or filmmaker in any impressive sense, but I can't understand looking at, if nothing else, Tenenbaums or Rushmore and saying there's nothing substantial or artistic happening there.

You're fooling yourself. We're living in a disqus-tatorship.

Wait… AV Club is some sort of profit thing?? I feel so betrayed!

I had a mini breakdown a couple years ago in a grocery story where the song's only lyrics were: "Merry Christmas… and haaaappy new year" for 5 minutes.

I've never heard the Limp Bizkit cover, but I'm willing to accept your assertion on… you know… what's the word I'm looking for? Like, without verification…?

I love in the first one of that when Fury Road comes up as essentially re-using a piece of music he pauses to point out it doesn't mean the scorers are bad. Because I'm sure I'm not the only one watching it feeling smug and judgmental who's then thrown ("Ha, of course it's Michael Bay; what a lame-o! And, yep,…

[tinny, monotone rag]
"Death Star plans!
Baby loves to steal Death Star Plans!
Stealin' plans for stars of deeeeaaath!!"

Wearing ventilators on days there's no wind because the air is so polluted?! What a kick in the pants!