I concur. Captain Cardboard if ever there was one.

Excellent list. I saw Vampire Weekend play on Wednesday and I was briefly on of those people holding my phone up to record the stage during Step. It's not my favorite but it's my little brother's favorite, he was pleased when I emailed him the video. I like Don't Lie best. And The Neighborhood is really great.

That's my favorite Ben Folds Five song, good choice

Do I Wanna Know by the Arctic Monkeys. It's my favorite song on the album and I'm so glad it's the radio single. I keep writing the lyrics on notebooks like a teenage girl.

Ugh the whole thing that went down in Portland was embarrassing.

Haven't read the review yet. I got really excited about how Ben's job is portrayed in the second ep. I work on the legal side of estate planning and I'm going to point to this episode to give people an idea of my job. And then everyone I know will continue not to give a shit.

I TOTALLY get that feeling. After I broke up with my boyfriend of four years I was like "life is going to be completely different and way better now!" It was immediately better in a lot of ways, but it also took a couple months of depression and a lot of sleeping around before I felt like I had optimized the…

The New Yorker article about this show when it first came out was where I learned the word "schadenfreude."

I know HIMYM really well, yet reading this review without having seen the episode made no sense to me. Makes me realize how absurd this show can be. The line "rocking a sixty minute deep tish" sounds like something Brad would say. Sounds like the episode was fast paced. That's often a good thing for them.

Yeah, some of the essay anthologies can be pretty fluffy. I read Amazon reviews of one Buffy book that was apparently comprised of poorly written fangirling. I was skeptical about this Dollhouse book but it's really intelligent and very much from an academic perspective, which I go crazy for. I also bought a new Buffy…

I got a book of essay about Joss Whedon's Dollhouse from Amazon Friday. Since no one I know has seen the show I had no one to talk to about it after I rewatched it recently. The book is really smart and interesting and satisfying my need to analyze the shit out of that show. Aaaand I watched each of the three Aziz…

Well put.

I had totally forgotten about that!! It freaked me the hell out too!

so true

The best, most creative element of this show is what invalidates your complaints: Ted is an unreliable narrator. I can't get over how awesome that conceit is; it allows me to suspend my disbelief way more than with your standard sitcom, where the characters are ostensibly real people in the real world. In HIMYM,…

I was thinking of Nickelback and that song in particular when I clicked through to this article. It's just so gross and catchy and awesome.

Reading the review I feel like a dummy for not assuming the shrink was a fake and it was all a conspiracy. I think I've been scarred by the Buffy episode "Normal Again" where it ends without answering the question of whether she's really been in an institution the whole time. I wouldn't put it past Community to leave…

Regarding the whole, novel "being-nice" thing Chris talks about here: I love how genuine he sounds when he says "thank you" to fans on the podcast. He's always really earnest and sounds like he heard what they said and he appreciates their support. Even some game creators and actors — the people who go to conventions…

"Bully to you, fine show" might be the best sentence ever.

Not opposites. Plot over character doesn't necessarily mean there's much plot happening, just that when a character takes action, it's because the writers want to create an event, not because it's what the character would naturally be inclined to do based on previous knowledge of who that person is. So when an event…