I'm not into competitiin either…truly, I just wanted to shout-out the guy I prefer because Jones' films are a little too "sacred cow" for me. I tend to prefer to 1940s stuff before Pepe le Pew, Muchigan J Frog, and Roadrunner/Coyote showed up.

I'm more of a Falling Hare man, myself.

I have a love-hate relationship with John K's work and attitude, but his idolization of Clampett is great. His blog would showcase some individual Clampett cels that were just so insane and beautiful. What's Opera Doc is a MOR snooze compared to what Tex, Bob, and others were cranking out.

Hot take: Bob Clampett's WB cartoons are better than Chuck Jones'.

I feel you. I love Charlottesville. I'm in Richmond. Monument Ave is littered with Confederate statues, and we're afraid it's coming here next.

I think I'm recalling this anecdote correctly:

Interesting! I'm still trying to work out how you pre-tape a call-in show, and air the most current, audience-chosen videos if you're recording weeks in advance. But I also felt like the whole "Bum Bum Song" at #1 incident was rigged.

He has a point though. The article gives Tom Green shit because he rapidly hangs up on people calling in to his show saying 4chan nonsense, but also gives him shit for responding too much.

One of the few late-period Tom Green gags I liked was his "special guest" stand-up set on a cruise ship. It was trolling of a sort, but a cruise ship audience deserves it.

Tell me more about this "recorded weeks in advance" thing.

AV Club went through a couple-months-long period where they were fighting valiantly to convince us that Anna Farris was a comedic genius who just never got the right role. It didn't take, kinda like when MTV tried to make us care about Ben Lee.

I mean, he is a "proud Christian Conservative."

That is also really stupid advice!

Every week, people lean on this word "trolling." David Lynch is an old man who probably doesn't know or give a shit what message board clowns think of specific scenes in his show. Some
of these ideas are there for comedy (the golden shovels), some because he's apparently just into slow pacing, and some because he is a…

I had basically this exact house (craftsman, 3 br, 1 tiny bath) in central Virginia, Zillow valued at 62k. I mean, I know LA is great, this location is great, etc….this was a pretty dinky house for what I would guess is a wealthy dude.

At first I thought it was the pace that bugged me most, but I think I've pinpointed that it's the editing and structure that's leaving me cold. The raw ideas and images are great, but I don't feel like the show checks in with its B-plots often enough. I was super-intrigued by the set up if the Buckhorn murder(s?)…but…

That's a really interesting idea that basically matches what I was thinking about Cartman over on the South Park article.

That's true…I think the offensiveness of the language was what shocked/drew a lot of people in…it started with "asshole," "queef," then a couple seasons in, "Shut up you stupid jew!"….Whoa! What?

Exactly. Driving a Prius vs. stripping people of healthcare are not equally "obnoxious".

South Park is a perfect water-cooler to gather at though. What pop culture leans closer to the alt-right than South Park? Especially in 1997!