The South Park guys also wrote the era’s most sympathetic portrayal of Britney Spears in a prescient and disturbing episode around this same time. It’s fine to culturally reappraise someone down the line, but not everyone can be painted with the same brush. Two things are true about Hilton: she was unfairly demonized…

At the same time I don’t want to condone people being mean to her, and certainly not to her dog. And yet I don’t want to talk about her, or think about her undeserved fame & how much she represents the worst elements of celebrity culture. We are in a weird place when she is emerging as some kind of celebrity elder…

This whole trend recently of “Hate the game, not the player” is understandable - who doesn’t love a redemption arc, after all? - and to be fair there are no winners on any side in the kind of vapid, self-aggrandizing, vicious world in which the Paris Hiltons, Courtney Stoddens, and, indeed, Donald Trumps of this Earth…

1. Avatar and Top Gun never had a chance to win the Oscar for Best Picture, and if you are a pop culture writer who legitimately thought they did, you need to do some serious consideration of how you approach your field. There was no glimmer of hope ever.

The money is the reward. These huge ass blockbusters will do just fine.

Yes, clearly the Oscars need to go to the most popular films. Just look at how The People’s Choice Awards kicks their asses in ratings every year.

“Midseason Finale” are two of the most annoying words in television.

You’re missing the point. The discussion is around wealth, class and privilege, and actors/celebrities are just the most obvious example.

I’m still baffled by why you would cast a Morticia and a Gomez with zero chemistry between the two. That’s a couple that suppose to be pure electricity together, wildly, deeply passionatly in love.

But, they are. These people have taken the effort to actually record and document their efforts in the hopes he takes notice.

Yes, it is bad to ask your audience who are neck deep in a weird parasocial relationship to do free work for while you get your shit together and hire proper merchandisers.

they are mostly children

What in the actual Christ is that headline?

She’s free to do whatever she likes, but sexual assault is a crime. If I sexually assault one of my coworkers, the least that happens to me is that I get fired. If somehow it gets around to another prospective employer that I sexually assaulted a coworker at my last job, I probably won’t be hired there. None of that…

Yes. One might say .... Lilith fair.

If people wanted him to apologize for being on a show that isn’t funny, we would all be reading an article about Rules Of Engagement instead.

Yeah, that’s right.

Well, you can’t make that argument, because they retroactively decided that the specials would constitute a season of South Park that they were contractually obligated to give to HBO Max.