I find it hard to believe that Beyonce and Justin Timberlake would demand prices higher than Scarlet Johanson and Matthew McConaughey. The point of hiring non-voice actors to voice animated characters is pretty much for the publicity. But that doesn't work when there are just as famous professional singers.

Can I ask why they didn't get people known for singing?

Thank you for clearing that up. According to IMDB Rose Abdoo played Berta, so I guess it was just gibberish peppered with some Spanish.

Thundercats. But really any '80s cartoon. I have incredibly found memories of them, but in reality I know they were vastly inferior to the glory of '90s cartoons, and wouldn't hold up at all.

Well I knew it wasn't Spanish (or at least not any kind of Spanish I know of). And the only language that it seemed like it could be was Portuguese. It certainly isn't French or Italian.

Would an exclusive private high school even hire a teacher without any education credentials?

Seriously, what happened to Lane? It's ten years later and she's working in her mom's antique shop and Hep Alien is seemingly defunct in all but name, and her performing is occasionally playing the secret bar.

Okay, if you're gonna get Upper East Side about this, I think we're done.

Kelly Bishop's sheer joy at explaining the horrors of whaling… well I don't think anything could possibly top it.

I lived in New York!

I used to keep the AV Club whitelisted on my adblocker. But their advertising has gotten obscenely aggressive over the years. So I had to shut it down.

Lane was severely under utilized this reboot. And that makes me sad.

You can contrast it with Lorelei who went from homeless (granted, of her own choosing) to being the general manager of a high end hotel in the span of sixteen years.

There's an entire town meeting about Jess at one point. So I'd say Star Hollow was pretty hostile to him.

Jess was only a shithead to Rory, because Rory was the point of view character. If we flip to Jess's perspective then he is a kid who was abandoned by his mother in a town where everyone hates him on sight. He starts dating a girl whose family also hate him on sight. She is completely insecure, emotionally demanding,…

They were. But it only aired the first five seasons on the WB. And the Willow/Tara romance was noticeably much more subdued and talked around over how it was handled on UPN. When it was on the WB there was a lot of using "magic" to mean "lesbians."

There was an episode of Grosse Pointe where Sarah Michelle Gellar was trying to play a lesbian in order to win an Emmy (and I do mean that literally, she was guest staring as herself trying to get a role as a lesbian in order to get an Emmy nomination).

I've pretty much been assuming Berta speaks Portuguese, but I haven't seen any confirmation of that. I really would like some as well.

I was very surprised when Ashton Kutcher did a nude scene on Netflix.

The two main reasons I decided to watch This is Us happen to be Milo Ventimiglia and Justin Hartley. It's like the casting director of that show happened to look for my celebrity crushes from my late teens and early twenties.