Great Rudy moment at the bar, stealing everyone's drinks: "Fuck you / Fuck you / Fuck you / [to Jess] Have a nice evening."

It didn't totally click for me at first, until I realized how the guy's desperate search for help was really a self-sabotaging move. He's fallen under a curse that punishes him for lying— but the only solution he'll consider wouldn't help him stop lying, it would just get rid of the curse so he can go back to lying;…

There is no monologue by Virginia Madsen about pinot grapes in Sideways. There's a monologue by Paul Giamatti about pinot grapes, and I think you badly misread it if you thought it was supposed to be wowing you with a precious metaphor. What's going on in that scene is that the Giamatti character is trying to connect…

The book is cool, but it's not exactly Crumb on Kafka… it's a a bio by Mairowitz, in the mixed text-and-illustrations style of the "___ for Beginners" series, with Crumb doing a variety of single panels, fragment-of-a-story comics, and occasional longer comics. All of the drawings are of course beautiful. The stories…

I should probably stop now because I haven't seen the movie in a long time, but I also remember really liking Noah Wyle's teacher character, specifically for the moment where Donnie is trying to get him to seriously discuss the time travel shit and the teacher cuts him off with "I can't have this conversation with…

Man, it creeps me out all over again every time I think about that guy who came to my high school. Just like the Swayze character, he was both incredibly fake and incredibly good at his job. This dorky-looking dude spouting platitudes actually managed to hold the attention of a huge crowd of teenagers— we made fun of…

And it's perfect for the character not just because he's old-fashioned, but because he doesn't make a big deal about it— he says what he thinks is the obvious truth, but then he immediately goes on and does his job. I was never very interested in Captain America in the comics, but I really like how the movies so far…

Oh shit! I totally would've watched that episode long ago if I knew Dean and the truck hooked up.

Cardboard evil adults? Donnie's parents are just doing their best. The Patrick Swayze character is evil, sure. The teacher who worships Swayze is horrible, but she's also very much like several teachers I had, who were stuck in crappy dead ends like Social Studies and got their only joy from pushing some personal…

There's a great moment late in the book where, after ranting for a while about how he has this pattern of constantly burning out and giving up on things, which keeps escalating throughout the book, as if he's a superhero with mutant failure powers— he pauses and says simply, "And there are lots of people like me."

I'm not sure how something can be simultaneously trite and unclear; doesn't "trite" imply that there's a very familiar point to it that you've heard lots of times? To me, the scene in the movie— and specifically the way they used it during his illness— had several points: the humor of getting hung up on minutiae while…

@avclub-b5706dc9508d67a01718c142ca80b8b4:disqus I have friends from northern Idaho where a lot of those assholes are based, and for some reason I keep fairly up to date with the shenanigans of such people across the country. Even if you're right that there is a group somewhere using the actual name "The Neo-Nazis,"…

It's also (in my experience) very characteristic of a long-time meth addict that Pennsatucky isn't just impulsive but 110% committed in every moment to whatever her latest motivation is, even if it's the exact opposite of the day before— anything that animates and drives her is by definition God's truth. Also, she…

@avclub-c0580eeb3f98d9c3fe232fc48694bf8e:disqus Taystee's sentence wasn't up; she was on supervised release, the federal equivalent of parole. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Like @TheZeppo:disqus, I don't think Healy thought of it as letting Chapman literally die— just letting her get maybe a little fucked up in a fight with a (tiny) person that, per Piper's own recent confession, she had badly wronged. And he may not even be thinking it through that far, because he's so full of childish…

The story of Sophia being denied her hormones, specifically because some doctor saw some slightly abnormal liver enzymes on her blood work and freaked out about it, isn't just plausible in prison— it happens a lot outside too, anywhere that there isn't a doctor around who's familiar with transgender care. I worked for…

@avclub-e03518408ba3251eab84fa54bb4c3dc5:disqus I think just being named Shaggydog is already a pretty cruel fate for a direwolf.

@avclub-a6668ef0ca3092b1efab304fbf65e4e6:disqus Famous last words. After the wooden oar goes mad with power, its drawn-on face will be laughing while we all burn.

@Kumagoro:disqus I think you're missing some of the reasons why this is intolerable to Shae. Tyrion marrying Sansa drastically reduces Tyrion's freedom to move around the castle or the city, so Shae might only be able to see him when she's on the job as Sansa's handmaid, a job she now has to keep forever if possible.…

@avclub-de9240f5c623bf031dcf0fca9770db44:disqus But that's not how attraction works, at least not with people you're around for long periods of time. If someone's not really your type, and there are strong personality- or behavior-related reasons why you're not comfortable with them, you can easily be uninterested in…