jesus, they really throw every mid-80s music trope against the wall in that one.

Was that music originally written for an 80s game show?

Yeah, it goes from decent (if generic) pseudo-medieval orchestral, to a synth theme sounding like something John Carpenter wrote, to a bad 1980s rock instrumental. Pick a lane, composer!

He’s big enough to pass as a former football player, blonde and funny. Make him the DCU’s Booster Gold?

the only Indian in the Cupboard i acknowledge is the saag paneer in my pantry ya heard

Sure!

Maybe the dingo ate her accent.

Well, they are very sensitive. Hence the whole 20%-more-anaesthetic thing.

As a fan of 1985's Ladyhawke, starring Michelle Pfeiffer in her prime (also with Rutger Hauer as her lover and Matthew Broderick as a comic relief thief), I am glad that the oft-neglected “woman cursed to turn into an animal daily at some appointed time” genre is getting a new movie!

Nah - Amy Adams and Isla Fisher get confused for one another and Bryce Dallas Howard and Jessica Chastain get confused for one another. And Julianne Moore is always recognised as Julianne Moore.

Is it racist to not be able to tell rangas apart? 

What a lovely day in the AVClub when we can get both Isla Fisher AND Amy Adams stories.

when voting blue is the only way to keep your reproductive rights you kinda dont have a choice

I played a dulcimer hammered one time.
It didn’t sound heavenly. 

Fun fact: his last name means “Of Splat” in English.

Huh. Turns out I was (sorta) right: https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/paste-magazine/paste-media-acquires-av-club

My personal favorite regular bringdown feature for Maher is that - no matter how “wise/pithy/deep” his big finish to New Rules makes him feel, he *has* to follow it up with “Hey folks, I’ll be at the Chuckle Hut in Yorba Linda and the Ha-Ha Room in Albuquerque next week...” It must drive him nuts.

Also known as the Gervais Technique.

Woah, my username survived the transition? Cool.

He was definitely noteworthy in Gen V.