The main kid and the one who looks like him start fighting, because the main kids loves quoting all thing Bill Cosby and the chubby one quotes all the super homophobic bits from Eddie Murphy’s Raw, the other one gets really into Michael Jackson, and the other one comes back from vacation in the UK loving Jimmy…

Brad Pitt, on the other hand...

That’s a better way to put it

Oh absolutely. I remember Vince Gilligan talking about that with either Breaking Bad or BCS - they’d basically put all the characters in a worst case scenarios with no endgame in mind to end an episode, then the next writing session would be figuring out the best/most entertaining way for their characters to get out…

I remember seeing some “behind the scenes” thing on SciFi before the last season where one of the writers talked about how they had no clue who the final 5 were until right before they wrote the last episode of the penultimate season. I started the show late and just thought that seemed...bad, especially considering…

Oh sure; I should’ve been more explicit my comment was my a reply to other comments angry at the idea of using a phone at any restaurant rather than the dude in the story at that specific joint. As I noted, if a restaurant/chef bans them, c’est la vie.

I’m pretty ignorant of most production/director behind the scenes stuff, so digging into the “Alan Smithee” history is really cool. 

Exactly! My wife and I’s families’ “abroad” travel is basically limited to super-sheltered Carnival cruises, so they all really enjoy pictures of actual non-American restaurants we go to during our vacations overseas. It’s crazy that someone could think a couple second picture of us and our food manages to destroy an…

Jesus, dude, no one is asking “Show me pictures of your meals!!!” It’s vacation slideshows. I’ll have an awesome hour long meal with my wife on a Scottish island or Japanese sushi restaurant, less than 5 seconds of which I’ll be on my phone and take a picture of my wife enjoying her meal. When I’m flipping through…

The fact you’re letting someone else’s personal life that has no actual effect on you affect you in such a way is pretty telling.  

I don’t show anyone pictures unless they ask, so it’s on them.

but it makes me feel superior! 

This should be a complete non-issue. I only take f00d pictures if on vacation at a restaurant I’ll never go to again so I can show friends and family during quick slideshows, and I personally enjoy photos people take of inside restaurants as I’m someone who travels for work all the time and wants to do work while…

I can’t BELIEVE you waste 2-5 minutes of your day posting pictures and reviews on restaurant review sites!!! Clearly this is your main hobby, so I’m now very upset.

“Gilbert Gottfried Seems Pissed” could literally be the title or caption to anything Gilbert Gottfried related. 

I don’t know, if there’s one thing midwest AB drinkers hate with a passion, it’s corn and corn-based products.

reverting to middle school and saying “oh HELL ya” to every MCU preview may as well be my new career

For sure; the way teachers teach needs updated, as well as teacher pay and school hours and months - fuck it let’s go 11 mos/yr, 8 hrs/day and pay teacher min $5ok/yr with same decent benefits. Another issue with plenty of causes is that many lower class parents don’t have the ability help their children after…

Not disagreeing with you, but, well, I didn’t want to use the phrase “national socialism”, so you know...

One of the few things I consider myself an absolute socialist on is public schooling. I know it won’t solve all the problem, but public schools being attached to property taxes are one of the worst things we’ve allowed. Granted, there are many kids nowadays who do legitimately graduate from public high schools who…