He may or may not have signed up with that intention, but that is what the military functionally does. You’re the one claiming he fought for our freedom to speak when he did nothing of the sort, regardless of intention. You’re the one trying to shut down criticism of a known racist on the basis that he’s a troop, as…

Trey writes the actual scripts, but he works with Matt and the other writers to come up with the plot lines and everything, and collectively it is his and Matt’s show. If you know anything about TV you would know that the writing credit on a TV show often doesn’t mean a whole lot. In any case, he isn’t actually…

It’s sort of cute that you think the AV Club overpays its writers, as opposed to relying heavily on freelancers who are paid a nickel for every 1000th page view.

I love South Park. But they do have several episodes in their canon that seem to suggest that climate change is some made up liberal myth. Not just the Al Gore one, but also the Earth Day episode (specifically, some “reasonable” kid saying his geologist father - an obvious fill in for Trey’s father - saying there’s no…

“You didn’t. I did. I never said you did. No one did. Why is this so hard for you?”

Lol. Again, show me where I brought up Sanders to start with, or even where I said that Clinton and Trump are the same. I seriously doubt anyone here thinks that. The question is whether she was a good candidate to go up against him. Not “better” in the sense of whether you or I would prefer her as president to Trump.…

Lol. I’m just using your own rhetoric, my dude. Accusing everyone who had any issue with Clinton or points any blame at her for her obvious failures as a candidate (I don’t particularly care for Jill Stein, but Jill Stein didn’t prevent Clinton from visiting Michigan) of being sexist or otherwise irrational. Then you…

Cool, but I still wouldn’t be able to watch it without wondering how many of Bryan Singer’s interns were molested in the process of making it. 

It’s not Queen’s fault, but unless the film references it explicitly, the average viewer would walk away with a rosy view of Live Aid that may not be warranted. 

Even if you ignore Bernie (the most popular politician in America, who I’ll just go ahead and assume you’re antisemitic for disliking with this kind of fervor), the reality is that the party actively pushed out all other credible challengers well before Bernie jumped in, to the point that Bernie basically jumped in…

Eh, I think that’s assuming a lot to think they all knew. Putting it frankly, Silverman is an attractive woman so it’s not surprising he jerked off in front of her as opposed to male friends who may or may not have known. Even if they heard the whispers, that’s not the same as direct knowledge. And Stewart was mostly…

Dude, you’re ignoring that there is a primary and selection process that in this case was (at minimum) heavily influenced by party insiders. That may be their right, but the whole point is that they backed the wrong horse. We all know she’s better than Trump, if only because a sack of diseased roaches is better than…

Pauper IMO has the weird distinction of being a bad episode but one that is still unfairly cited as the jump the shark momemt. I do think it jumped that season, but they episide is ignorable and doesn’t contain most of its problems (like Homer becoming too mean and stupid). 

Showrunners are way more important for sure. The “analysis” in the article, or at least the article itself, has an obvious fatal flaw actually, that most of the writers from the first seasons were already gone by the end of season 4. The first few David Mirkin commentaries are dominated by talk of him having to hire…

Only Ken Keeler and David Cohen were Simpsons writers before working on Futurama. There’s actually more of the opposite; Futurama writers moving to Simpsons once the former was cancelled. 

This dude looked that way by choice. I get what you’re saying, but Moore isn’t suggesting the guy should be shot or discriminated against, merely that he fell into a toxic trap of what being male means, which is true.

Generally speaking he does own it. Simpsons continuity being what it is, that varies from episode to episode. (He was also implied to be a citizen who could serve on a jury in season 5, but in season 7 he “finally” gets a summons after gaining his citizenship...you get the idea.) In most episodes, he seems to own it…

This was the worst idea ever anyway. And bear in mind I actually enjoyed Solo. Boba Fett only works as a character because he’s mysterious. The prequels partly wrecked that, this movie would have finished him off. Yeah, I’m fine with it never happening.

They use freelance scripts, but there’s a set process for it - in fact, they do it per a WGA rule that they use one script from a freelancer (who has to be a member) per year. They also heavily rewrite the script in house (I’d be surprised if many finished versions look much like the original draft by the freelancer -…

Mike Reiss has been saying this for months. It’s not really news. Maybe there’s been some final decision, but it’s already known that Azeris doesn’t want to voice him anymore and that the episode from a couple years back (discussed in the documentary) with Apu’s nephew was meant as their way of acknowledging the issue…