What’s funny is how The VMAs are the only mainstream video music awards right now.

Imagine the controversy when they cast their first female Paul Rudd.

-1 - you announced your name and intention to speak, but failed to inform us what you appreciate “in a major way”.

You’re so full of triggered workerage that you completely missed the joke, parody, and satire of this. That this is meant to mock right-wing views and interpretations of socialism much like how the original Monopoly was meant to parody/satirize monopoly Capitalism. 

I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

OH the things people get upset over...

This seems like the kind of article where Serious Media Knowers get Big Mad in the comments.

And I can assure you that many, many others at MillerCoors/Molson Coors did not. I know many of them. While many in that building do not agree with Pete Coors’ politics, Pete Coors does not agree with theirs either. Yet he, directly or indirectly, employs them.

Closest thing I could think of is taking off very very tight underwear or maybe undoing a necktie in a dress shirt you can only barely still button.

I thought this was a good ad, too.  I'm a dude, who has lived with a woman for seventeen years. I can only imagine what feels as relaxing as taking off a bra at the end of the day. 

Not entirely- they had that episode where Zack and Co were “The Five Aces” doo-wop group. They nailed that. Of course in doing so, they forgot 90's kids didn’t care about doo-wop music.

The Italian chain?
Like, in case you wanted to put a cannoli in your shirt pocket or something?

Nerd, jock, burnout, or prom queen -- the one unifying fact is that ALL teenagers are assholes. They just find different ways to present it.

Mango was so bad.

It’s an interesting point you make about 80s and 90s TV emphasizing the importance of being “normal” to kids, especially since nowadays it’s the complete opposite, where the subtext of seemingly every show is that it’s ok to be a nerd/gay/a different gender/an ethnic minority/a non-Christian religion/etc. Obviously…

“and I find myself heartened by living in a culture where the curiosities of the “nerd” have not only been normalized, but also reflected in mass-market entertainment like Marvel and Star Wars.”

I worked in the copy room at a law firm a few years ago and we had a framed photo of The Richmeister above the desk, taking his rightful place as the patron saint of people who make copies.

To quote the late great Bert Cooper: “Mr. Hughes, who cares?” I find the character annoying, sure, but A) it’s a cameo in a streaming Scooby Doo cartoon which I’ll never watch, and B) who am I to begrudge Jaleel White for getting work? The monoculture’s dead, baby—you aren’t actually required to have an opinion on, or…

I can just hear him saying, “oy, fuck off Laddie” as he “recovers” from the blow.

“Shots, shots, shots, shots....”