When it comes to The Office I often wonder how much of the genius of that show was a result of Stephen Merchant, the same way I often wonder if the genius behind Chappelle's Show is actually Neal Brennan.

Wow I didn’t even know Sarah Michelle Gellar had a new show this year. It’s crazy that she hasn’t really been able to find success in tv since BtVS. I mean she is very talented and still looks amazing. One of the shows she was in since then even co-starrer Robin Williams.

Seriously, even Clark Griswold who was a huge dumbass, had a job that paid him enough to have a house big enough to sleep 10 fairly comfortably, with a dining room big enough for 14 people to eat. Plus his job paid big enough bonuses where he thought he was getting enough money to pay for most of an in ground pool…

Not sure why this is damning instead of super obvious. Not just because the giant house and trip to Paris, but also because a lot of families in John Hughes movies are rich. 

From the headline I honestly thought he was in a wheelchair for graduation or something. Like he was injured and literally couldn't walk.

The other difficulty I have heard about besides the cost can sometimes tracking down who owns the copyright to a song. Think of all the stories where a record company owns the actual copyright to the recording itself. If that company goes out of business or gets sold or merges a bunch of times it could be challenging…

It absolutely is an issue outside of the US.

Wow that Caroline Polachek album seems like it has been high up or the top of every top album list I have seen. Not totally my type of music but it is still super impressive.

Maybe he ran into Timberlake and Spears on the streets of his hometown of Pawnee and then got too drunk at the Snake hole Lounge to remember any of it.

Where is "Angels with Filthy Souls",  ya filthy animals?

There was that one who could do sign language.

Has no one at the AV Club ever heard of David Puddy? He is not just some dumb grease monkey you know.

They should have just made the next Avengers villain the Kree Empire. I mean the Kree Supreme Intelligence can pretty much be anyone, plus you have Annette Benning right there. And if you want to go extra crazy you can do the giant green head in a tank of water.

He can't have been that poor since he walked away from doing What We Do In The Shadows for FX to do Thor and left it to Jemaine Clement to be showrunner on his own.

I don’t know, Bradley Cooper was in his mid-30's when the first one came out, and now he is pushing 50. A 50 year old getting black-out drunk and having to remember what happened the previous evening seems more sad than funny.

Isn’t this how it is supposed to work? Like a studio asks Matt Damon if he wants to do another Bourne movie, I would hope his immediate response would be “let me see the script". Why would anyone expect him to sign on otherwise?

My favourite part was when his conductor's baton is ruined because some friends used it as a pool cue.

Plus if you are going to charge him because he was a producer, shouldn’t you be charging all the producers? Or are you just going after the one that will generate the most headlines.

The tax break thing is stupid, but other than that a studio shelving a finished movie is a pretty common thing. How many times have their been stories about a movie gets finished and never comes out and then a few years later one of the stars gets really famous and the studio then decides they can make money off of it

Being in his 40's for an origin could work. I mean you would expect the smartest, most educated/accomplished person in the world not to be 25 or something. Plus RDJ was 43 when Iron Man came out so not that much younger.