All true, and all very well said. The little iconoclast in me wanted her to succeed even more for those very reasons. 

I did, too! (Or thereabouts—whitechocolatespaceegg had just come out). I was bitter about it then, too.

Yeah, Garbage are great, too. That was really just my ham-handed way of saying that I think Phair should have had much more commercial success than she did. It’s also always bugged me a little that Morissette was celebrated for breaking taboos with her frank sexual lyrics on Jagged Little Pill (“Would she go down on…

That Phair and Morissette’s respective careers went the way that they each went to the point where Phair will no be opening for Morissette and not the other way around just goes to show me that I ended up in the darkest timeline way before 2016.

Yeah, I wrote that at what was 7 a.m. for me, and I might have been a little cranky before having my morning coffee. I stand by it, though. The AV Club—despite all of its many soul-crushing faults post-Kinja—is still the one pop culture site that I frequent with any regularity, and Bob’s Burgers is probably in my top…

I love Gene and Linda. I don’t think either are “tricky” characters. There have been plenty of Gene-centric episodes and Linda-centric episodes that rank amongst my favorite. The characters’ more outgoing, confident attitudes towards life perfectly complement the other Belchers; take either of them away and the show…

Well said.

I just realized that Banks would make a pretty fantastic Sue Storm.

“In hindsight, I mishandled that situation. I was not sensitive, my initial reaction to it. I wasn’t totally aware of how the trans community felt about those three actors playing—and how they felt in general about cis actors playing—transgender people. I wasn’t aware of that conversation—I was uneducated. So I…

This sounds like bullshit, just like everything that comes out of Abrams's mouth.

I just had my own “aha” moment: I just realized how similar Gasteyer and Kathryn Hahn look to me; like Hahn could easily play Gasteyer’s kid sister in something.

Not sure if it’s *the* other one, but it’s *another* one.

Well, Patricia Heaton is the one who cheered on her hero Rush Limbaugh when he referred to Sandra Fluke as “a slut.” I’m not very familiar with her acting, but off camera she seems like a real peach:

Yeah I liked it (and related to it), too. 

“Purple Rain-Union” is such a great episode all around. The kids’ adventures with Jen the babysitter, Bob’s pimple becoming the life of the party, Gayle’s overly sexual lyrics (“won’t you enter my acropolis and make my yogurt Greek”), Linda’s rivalry with Bad Hair Day...

According to almost everyone who knew Sheeran and every law enforcement official who investigated Hoffa’s disappearance, Sheeran was completely full of shit and Charles Brandt knows it. Along with claiming that he killed Hoffa, Sheeran also claimed that he killed Joey Gallo. Two of the most high profile mob figures in…

In my head canon Stan adopts Henry. Then a refurbished Mail Robot joins the family and all is well. Until Renee short circuits “M.R." and recruits Henry for post-Soviet Russian intelligence because DAMMIT SHE WAS KGB ALL ALONG WASN’T SHE? WHY CAN’T STAN CATCH A GODDAMN BREAK?!?

I originally wrote “one of the most devastating reveals,” but I was flipping back and forth between windows on mobile to get the URL for the second clip and Kinja refreshed, and I lost my original post. When I was typing out my response again I went with “bittersweet” instead because I remembered back when the finale…

There are plenty that rival it, but for me nothing outright tops the “With or Without You” montage from the series finale of The Americans: