Only to the people doing the punching.

The problem is that "satire" is a word whose real meaning has pretty much been destroyed at this point, thanks to people like Sandler and those idiots who made those "______ Movie" movies a few years back.

That's really the thing that makes a truly great parody: a love for the thing you're parodying. You need people who understand the different between "laughing at" and "laughing with".

Auto da fé? What's an auto da fé?

It's not just "spot the reference", but also the fact that those movies will sit there and make you you are getting the "joke". Airplane and Top Secret didn't stick around to see if you got it; they assumed you were smart enough to keep up and moved on to the next joke. Nowadays, it's not just "reference humor", you…

Man, this really is ZAZ at the top of their game. It's weird to look back at this movie and realize how little they dwelled on the jokes. It was always "this is the joke. Get it? Good. No? Too bad, we're already three jokes ahead of you."

Well, his original characterization was indeed "really strong, dumb as a bag of hammers", but that got dumped long before the movie came out.

I'd say that by being aware of that possibility, and therefore being able to take that concern into account in your work, already puts you ahead of Roth.

The only valid moral outrage is HIS moral outrage.

Are you a bureaucrat?

The A.V. Club: It's shank or be shanked.

As much as I love the game, I do have to agree that the early art wasn't that great. It gets better as things go, but still.

In "Keeping It Together", Garnet flat-out states that because she's a fusion all the time, she "forgets what it's like to be alone". That's why she can't see how Pearl and Amethyst are hurting; she doesn't remember what it's like to be lonely.

Aaaaaand now I feel old.

GAME SHOWS ARE BACK.

VERILY.

Oh, a lesson on time travel from Mister "I'm my own grandfather"!

The A.V. Club: Don't worry about that, let me worry about blank.

Which is the one people like to cuddle?

God rest her zombie bones…