That’s why we need Mick Jagger in the SNL writer’s room all the time to shout “Not Funny!” at the writers — not just when John Mulaney is writing a song for him.

I think the point of it (the ending showing the white woman learning to make dumplings with her mother in law) is showing that the (very real, as I know from experience) fear that many immigrant parents have that their children will lose their culture if they marry into the dominant culture isn’t necessarily true —…

Speaking of Mad Men actors, John Slattery also would work.

perhaps even in several minutes. Or even hours.

It was just a Pixar short played before The Incredibles 2. And it was indeed the other way around (a dumpling comes to life rather than someone becoming a dumpling). Although it wasn’t clear if that even “really” happened in the story. It’s about a Chinese-American mom who fears that her son (who is engaged to a white…

If you are ever in Washington, you can read the saying on the IRS building itself — “Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society”. As for companies blocking the IRS from making filing taxes easy/automatic (the way they are in nearly every other country), yes, H&R Block does play a role, but far more so the problem…

Hasn’t stopped half of Batman and Spiderman movies from rehashing the tedious origin of their heroes.

“Dune” certainly was Herbert’s big commercial hit, but “Hellstrom’s Hive”, about a society of humans who modify themselves to live eusocially like ants or bees, was a fascinating underrated book.

You just know that if they use the character they’ll update him so he acts like he is from 1999 rather than 1899 -- he’ll have a big clunky cellphone and rollerblade everwhere instead of riding a tandem bike wearing a straw boater.

The Arabs weren’t the displacers of the Jews, true, but we know when they got the “Holy Lands” and who they took it from - they conquered it in the 600s from the Byzantines. But the whole reason the Arabs wanted the place and Jerusalem in particular was because they knew it was holy to the Jews and, much like…

You can argue justifiably against the current government of Israel, but all this “Isrealis are colonists” rhetoric seems to be coming from a strange viewpoint that ignores who the indigenous people of the area are historically and imagines that the Jews were just random Westerners who decided to settle in the Middle…

You forgot Melanie Griffith (daughter of Tippi Hedren) and Dakota Johnson (granddaughter of Hedren, daughter of Griffith and Don Johnson, so three generations of celebrities).

You’re comparing genre fiction to a work of serious historical fiction, and one that has remained consistently in print since its publication so it is clearly finding new readers.

Oh come on, the whole “pain don’t hurt” line is *at least* the sort of deep thinking a 13 year old would come up with.

Maybe there’s a connection between the Na’vi and the weird version of Scotland that mixes people centuries apart!

Mr. Peanutbutter could get pretty dark despite the superficial cheerfulness.

I liked the remake of Dances with the blue cat people better.

And the main character (you) manages to support themselves and own a house without ever even having a job! It’s basically a utopia.

I was thinking more the various warships named Invincible over the centuries (although that always seemed to be tempting fate). As for Kansas and the Midwest, well, that depends on what the “Midwest” is. I grew up in Wisconsin and thought the Midwest was places like Wisconsin and Minnesota. But it seems to be a…

Although the movies made it all out to be Islam. The books made it clear that the religion was Zen-Sunni, a mixture of Sunni Islam and Zen Buddhism, although how that was supposed to work wasn’t clear.