I had to google to see if that was a joke or not. Never in my grown-ass man life have I ever known or heard of "county mayor" being a real elected office.

That was always my feeling - they were fun enough and had the occasional great moment, but mostly they were just there to give the show a premise and tie it into the tradition of the old UHF creature-feature hosts. In the gear up to this comeback, though, I've noticed that a lot of people getting weirdly reverent…

I worked at Pizza Hut in the late 90s and the hand-tossed and thin were made fresh but the pan dough was totally frozen. Maybe depends on the store?

But… they are gorillas, aren't they? What else are they supposed to be?

So does the show just cut out the modern day section of the book about his granddaughter? That would be a shame, because one of the great things about the book was its sense of scope about Texas history and the self-mythologization that contributes to a lot of the fucked up ideas Texas holds onto today.

I tell ya, these alt right mad scientists are really up to some sick shit.

Dropping all the episodes at once also mitigated a lot of the issues these real life podcasts tend to have. I can just imagine the weird tweets and reddit detective work that would have ensued if it were released normally and each week people reacted under the misconception that it was a murder mystery or a treasure…

So… my takeaway from this is Funny or Die now instead of making funny videos just sort of describes the idea they had for the video and the AV Club now instead of writing their own articles, just repeats the jokes from other sites and throws in a hyperlink. Thanks, SAD!

My man is definitely an AV Club commenter.

I filled in most of the 'other' boxes with commented aimed directly at the staffer who has to read these. Stuff like "If you quit now, you can avoid be tainted by having worked for the most disastrous presidency in US history and you might still have a future in politics."

I know lots of other people have said this already, but that's some silly shit you're patting yourself on the back for. You'd be a million times better off just picking up the Wall Street Journal and the Failing New York Times. Those sites you mentioned are basically entertainment sites that pretend to be news. And…

A punch to the face is the only way to shut some people up and it is incredibly effective. Not saying that should ever be the first or only response, but it's honestly a little naïve or at least idealistic to think otherwise. And nobody's arguing for shooting people here. That's a different subject entirely, and…

Nah, these guys are cowards personified. They want to be martyred
intellectually by big bad academics, but they’re scared shitless at the
prospect of being physically dominated or perceived as physically weak. What they want is for us to try to use logic and reason to argue with them because they know if we do that, we…

The two are related. The alt-right sci-fi bros gamed the nominations to get Tingle nominated in an attempt to troll the Hugos, but it backfired because he managed to reverse troll them and make them look stupid while bringing attention to a lot of they authors they objected to.

Oh come on. This is the inside the beltway equivalent of a high school talent show. Don't act like she nutted up and went to an open mic at a comedy club. And congrats on cracking the code that we're mocking somebody we dislike. Watch out fellas, this one's on to us!

Later on, there's an extended section based around the hilarity of prison rape that I found to be about twice as off-putting as it was funny. It felt like shock humor (which, granted, Norm is one of the best at) that might have felt daring in the 90s, but just falls flat today because it's not breaking taboos, it's…

I don't have a problem with the pop culture adjacent Trump news like this that gets posted here, but even I think a AV Club Newswire about the cost mortgage insurance increase might be a little outta their wheelhouse.

Da funk?

Make record stores, video rental places and alternative weeklies great again!

I also thought she was sinking an otherwise solid sketch with her crap delivery and then she nailed those impressions. Maybe she's going for a Maria Bamford thing to maximize the contrast between her regular voice and the impressions, but her "normal voice" lines in that sketch sounded like a high school drama student…