One commenter recently posted that they continued to come here out of muscle memory, which describes perfectly my irrational ongoing AV Club habit.  I really just thought one day the comments plug would be permanently pulled and that would be that.  Never expected this kind of resurrection.

I think you might be surprised at how many of the people on here...are the same people who were on here 15 years ago. And under different usernames we’ve fought, loved, blocked each other, followed each other, all while having no idea we were the same people. It’s...so beautiful...

Zorak will try to kill Seth Meyers, pretty much instantly...can we get them to play for Jimmy Fallon instead?

Just guessing here, but I’d imagine a few days of the CEO’s pay + bonuses would easily fund the band for a full year.

Turns out the real jackals were the people running the show...

I’m really looking forward to again seeing the entire AV Club staff of the time hitting the “Hail Satans” on Nathaniel Rateliff’s take of “The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out of Denton.” (I don’t think I imagined that, right?)

And I just have to say, the possibility of a resurrected AV Club makes me so, so happy. The old school original version was one of the very best things about the old, pre-enshittified internet, and that it could rise from the ashes like a Phoenix gives me hope that all is not yet lost.

FUCK. YES. I’ll post ideas later but for now...

No, you know North West as Simba was absolute trash, because you can see it in the videos and hear it in the song. It’s not hard to tell bad singing, and it’s not hard to tell when someone is literally being pushed around and guided on stage like a toddler to hit their marks.

I’ll echo the sentiments of others, that nepotism will only get you so far before you get sidelined. Did Maya Hawke have help getting her foot in the door? Absolutely. But she’s also done the work, and has the drive, and few would argue that doesn’t have incredible ability and camera presence. Compare to, say, Chet…

This is one of the better Criterion Closet shorts on its own, and it’s also really illustrative of part of the family business side of nepo babies when it’s done right.

You’re half right. It isn’t to create generational talent, but it is to get access to the the network of contacts.

I dunno, Billie, I once watched The Cure play for like 4 1/2 hours (it was the Trilogy tour they recorded in Belgium where they played Pornography, Disintegration, and Bloodflowers in full and then also tacked on a 45 minute encore of songs not on those albums) and other than being a bit tired by the end, I wouldn’t…

Holy fuck. Just because groping is really common where you’re from doesn’t mean it’s okay. It means where you’re from is fucked up.

“He knows what he fucking did!”

Your brain —not just yours— is an incredibly confused, tangled mess of electrical cords. It’s pretty neat, for instance, that if you wear goggles designed to flip your vision upside down, after a few days it goes “Wait, I thought I already flipped a while ago” and flips back again to make it ‘right side up’ again.…

He’ll always be Luigi Mario to me.

Pratt demolished the last of his goodwill alongside the Zimmerman house.

I occasionally go back to Tim Burton’s Ed Wood just to remind myself that no matter how bad an artist someone is, that doesn’t mean at all that they can’t be a perfectly good and nice person who deserves happiness like anyone else. And if they’re still proud of their work, that should be celebrated.

Anyone immune to the charms of Richard Kind are dead inside.