Am I the only one around here that read and adored Pendragon? It was super long and I spent three years having forgotten about it before I stumbled upon the tenth book, but I loved it. Tell me someone remembers.

I hope they keep the horribly racist caricatures of fake world leaders, for posterity's sake. I mostly love that book, in all its gonzo lunatic glory, but those bits are mighty tough to read.

As soon as I read this comment all of my memories of Zombie Island came
flooding back. I must have had the videotape or something, because I
remember watching it like crazy. It felt so real and scary and cool,
and it was so unlike any other Scooby thing I'd ever seen (and I saw it a lot on Cartoon Network) that I…

And it's Louise's story that features the shaving. Continuity?

I think it's just a nod to Dan Guterman, who is a writer on the show.

Well, I thought this was excellent. I laughed a lot at the whole enterprise, and the episode's plot was refreshingly self-contained. As in, the episode wasn't really a commentary on gentrification, per se. Instead, it used gentrification to tell a story that was uniquely and fully about South Park.

In fairness to you, it's probably BECAUSE she had basically never seen the show that she was able to pick it out. I've never seen the episode you're talking about, but I assume the Captain turns out to be a bad guy, and it's finally revealed in that episode. Presumably, the reveal is telegraphed in acting choices,…

I think a decent way to include both your interpretation and Emily's under the same thematic logline is to say that the show is about the difference between who Forrest thinks he is and who he actually is. Forrest thinks that he's someone who cares too much about the sanctity of human life to take one, yet the mere…

When I finished reading the article, as I was scrolling to the comments, I said to myself, "This guy's kind of a Kanye West." But at least Kanye backs up his bloviating with lots of great work. Is Married all that good?

I want to keep going! I wonder if the CC seasons look better now that we've viewed the original run more recently and with a little less nostalgia?

This reminds me of an experience from high school bio. I had introduced my teacher to the hilarious Look Around You video series, which he loved. One day, we were learning about the brain, and he showed the Look Around You for the brain. Maybe two people besides me laughed. He capped it off by saying, "You know that…

Do you need (booze)? You will.

It would be awesome to get some Columbo retro reviews on here. Maybe not every single one, but a few classics surely would attract pageviews and commentariat, right?

I love what Jordan Klepper does. He's got a schtick that does a lot of what Colbert's character used to do, but he often uses it to lay bare the hypocrisy of white privilege as opposed to the ridiculousness of hyperconservatism. Everything he's done makes me laugh and nod appreciatively. Hasan is still a little…

Edit: Nevermind

Probably because her work requires a tremendous amount more effort than theirs?

So is that! But if it's been a while, I can see forgetting that bit. I just watch way too much Futurama.

In the Going Clear book, it seems to suggest that he actually doesn't like it much, or at least didn't at the time: "As he watched the movie, Haggis was appalled. Everything that was wrong was glaringly apparent on the huge screen. He sat glumly waiting for it to end, calculating what could be salvaged. So when the…

I think what the doctor is saying is that thinking of the misogyny and violence as "just music" and "not real life" is disingenuous because, at least at that part of their lives, it was real life. You can judge the groundbreakingness of the music as more salient or important, and there is certainly compelling…

Just goes to show that they knew exactly what they were doing. Especially since, in both the documentary and the book, a very strong case is made that the only reason Scientology survived and thrived as it did was by marketing itself as an answer to the angst and desperation that Bojack is feeling.