Judging by your comment history I find that hard to believe, but ok, sorry to have sucked you in!

thanks for the info, but clever has a pretty clear definition

yup, missed the "joke", oh dear…

pretty sure the above example is an antonym of clever

and has anybody laughed?

Read a lot of articles here and never noticed a slant. From the About page: So the stuff you write is all fake, like The Onion's "news," right?No. Not even a little. The A.V. Club features real interviews, reviews, features, and other entertainment-related articles.

Yeah, I had never heard the comparison before (never seen Bug's Life) and given the state of research in journalism these days, couldn't really tell if the author was serious.

Well that's exactly what I was thinking when reading the article. Guess I must be stupid for asking out loud.

Wait, what? Is this article a half joke? The Magnificent Seven is a remake of the film from 1960, which is a remake of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Since when does A Bug's Life have anything to do with these films?

look his stuff up on YouTube. He was part of Good Neighbor and they're pretty hilarious