“The Mutt-ichlorian count is high in this one.”

Too many legs to be called tuna.

I’m annoyed people want to shake hands again.

I would say SNL has quietly moved in this direction anyway - there are Pete Davidsons or Andrew Dismukes, but the show has started casting more and more people who were in their early or mid-30s (Ego, Punkie, Mikey, Alex, Heidi, Chris, etc.). They have also changed their schedule to be more accommodating to letting…

Absolutely. Just as there are lots of women and POC in the world that deserve representation, there are also people over 40 who haven’t literally disappeared just because Death is now coming for them. I get very tired of seeing 27 year olds (badly) made-up to look like senior citizens. Hire some freakin’, awesome…

I don’t think it has occurred to hawkboy that some of the alums may feel a generosity of spirit toward the show that made them famous. Maybe Aidy and Kate want to see the show through a new-members transition. Maybe they love the work and the extra money. Maybe they’re just decent people. People don’t seem to get much…

HEY...I AM TRANSFORMING HERE. I AM TRANSFORMING HERE.

Subway shreds old couch cushions and mixes them in white sauce.

Yeah, like J.R.R. Tolkien said when people kept claiming that LotR was an allegory for WWII (which he said it wasn’t), there’s a difference between allegory and applicability. Allegory is intentional and in the mind of the author, but lessons in a story can be applied to other situations whether or not the author…

You’re free to interpret anything you want but don’t keep challenging the actors, writers and directors to admit that your interpretation is canon.

the Drew Carey show and King of Queens don’t seem like great examples. The Honeymooners would likely be the 1st example. Another more “recent” show that comes to mind would be Still Standing, with Mark Addy inexplicably married to Jami Gertz (!?!).

Drew Carey didn’t have a wife on The Drew Carey Show (the female lead for most of the show was his friend Kate, who was one of the guys), so it’s weird to mention that as an example of the type of show this one is commenting on.

Eh things are different now. No one back in the day treated Golden Girls like anything but a mediocre sitcom either. But thoughts about culture change over time and those thoughts can be become retroactive.

Saaaaame. 

I’ve been a fan of hers ever since I first heard her in The Oblongs.

Well, there goes the one remaining feature that makes this site still worth visiting occasionally.

He’s paid to read words, not write them.

I love this take because I always thought the book was meant to be about how most of us would try to ride out a coup leading to a hostile regime. You would keep your head down, try and keep your sanity and try and stay alive. I really liked the early bit of the show when they seemed cognisant of the fact that no…

This show and Halt and Catch Fire both started slow, but then remade themselves into very good shows. Both also remind me, oddly enough, of Mad Men: shows about adults navigating both the small tasks of everyday work life, and the events of decades of history.