Holy shit, no kidding.

I say, on this basis, this is not the right show for you. I watched the whole series and enjoyed much of it (Luke and Lorelai, Rory and Lorelai’s rapport, the complicated relationship between Lorelai and her mother) but the town stuff can be cloying at times, and the rich-grandparent element you mention only gets…

Whoa, I didn’t know that. It explains why the scene packs so much punch.

This is really sweet, genuinely. It’s nice when pop culture can give us happy moments remembering loved ones.

I’m not arguing ... however I was a little startled when I took a class on the French Revolution and learned that the full song includes the line “May impure blood/Water our fields.” (The secret sauce that makes French cuisine so famously delicious?)

Damn it, I don’t have time to watch “Please Wake Up Mothra” now, but I won’t be able to stop thinking about it until I do.  

The “pretty” character in Rich and Pretty made for an unconvincing woman—she was very much a gay man in disguise. And there was a scene with the “rich” character that betrayed a fundamental misunderstanding of female anatomy.

I remember finding Will Ferrell especially grating, more so than other cast members, when he debuted on SNL, but I became a fan at about the same pace as everyone else: if not by the cowbell sketch, then by Old School. His schtick has gotten a little old at this point, but Anchorman and Ricky Bobby were really, really…

Of the new fiction the AV Club has reviewed back-t0-back, both this novel and the new Marilynne Robinson are books by older white authors about interracial romance. It would be interesting to hear a Black reviewer’s take on this pair of books.

You are a voice crying in the wilderness in this particular comment section.

Or really, Field of Dreams if Signourney Weaver is coming back as a ghost.

I assume you’ve seen the SNL Papyrus sketch?  

I don’t think that group of people has a favorite sci fi movie. The closest they would get would be Heaven Is For Real or whatever it’s called.

I love this—never paused to consider the distinction between “hemming” and “hawing” before.

It sucked. I walked in expecting a delightful chucklefest and I walked out like WHO, exactly, likes this hot racist garbage?

Same, a lot of stuff from astoundingly recently has aged astoundingly poorly. 

Nicely done.

The troll-under-a-bridge positioning doesn’t help either.

Leave off that last line and I would have said “thanks, I’ll check those out!”  

Does Keira Knightley ever appear in modern dress outside of Chanel ads (if you can call that “modern dress”)?