What about the squirt gun that shoots jelly? That never made sense to me. Even if it was filled initially with jelly, surely once it ran out it could be filled with water.

Nestor The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey is so much better.

Most webjournalism is produced by 22 year old English majors with little real expertise in their subjects. Some turn out to be very good writers, thorough researchers, and insightful, perceptive thinkers. Some crank out 1000 words about how Rudolph is now the hashtag resistance or something who cares no one will read…

I’m a defender. I have a soft spot in my heart for Rankin Bass, Christmas, and Stop-Motion animation, so this old special hits all the right notes. I love its “let your freak flag fly” message, I love the little snappy one-liners snuck into it, and I love how it makes me FEEL like Christmas is coming.

Why does nearly every adult trying to analyze children’s media sound like they’ve never encountered a child? Or media? Or analysis?

So, it’s actually THIS article’s comments where I should gently explain that the Original Ghostbusters is fairly misogynistic and Venkman is kind of creepy? Because the subthread on the Ocean’s 8 comments seems like it would be unreceptive to that observation ....

That “party style” cut is an absolute abomination that haunted me through my undergrad years in Chicago. WHO THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA TO HAVE SO MANY PIECES WITHOUT CRUST? DURING PHYSICS LECTURES? WITHOUT NAPKINS?

Hey Sam—if you really don’t have anything to say, you aren’t legally required to hit “publish” on whatever you’ve written down.

The hardest and longest I’ve ever laughed at any thing on TV was when Jon Hamm yelled ‘BANJO!!’ during the 6th season live show. It took me half an hour to regain enough composure to continue watching it. I had already looked up the price of the series on Amazon when I heard this news. Thanks, Hulu!

Hulu has usually been better than Netflix. Certainly, it took a huge hit when it lost the Criterion Collection, but getting 30 Rock is a step in the right direction.

Charlize Theron won an Oscar because, among other things, physically transformed into Aileen Wuornos. You couldn’t recognize her in that film, so that’s hardly a good example of Hollywood prettification.

That’s way too early. That’s maybe the cutoff for, say, Gen X. But the whole thing is that millennials are coming of age now. The consensus from demographers seems to group millennials from the mid-eighties to early-aughts.

What? As the great grand-daughter of Warren G. Harding I’d say she’s a pretty noteworthy footnote in history. It’s the whole reason she was not prosecuted.

Harding would not have mopped the floor with Kerrigan. She was losing to Kerrigan pretty consistently before the attack, which was why the attack happened.

And? She was a top athlete, they tend to get upset when years of training get undone by equipment failure.

It depends on who’s playing Nancy Kerrigan, of course, but it’s going to take some suspension of disbelief to go along with the idea of Margot Robbie not being pretty enough to be a figure skater.

I don’t think Tonya ever admitted guilt, or that she had anything to do with it. Gilooly blamed it on her, because he was an abusive scumbag.

There was an actual issue with her skate (a broken/damaged lace if I recall) and she was allowed to redo the program once the skate was fixed and performed it at her usual high skill level. Getting a restart due to equipment failure isn’t entirely uncommon in sports.

Anybody know the name of the horse they got to play Nancy Kerrigan? Is she a mudder?

Rather simple to explain, I'd think- the people who are having nostalgia for it were eight or so when they watched it, and there's a very long history of children having tastes for live-action sitcoms that, by all objective matters, are truly, truly terrible.