I’m sure we all remember when Black Adam was getting great buzz and Batgirl was terrible, take our word for it, and they just had to make the Sophie’s Choice of axing one of them.

Oh dear, oh bother, oh heavens to Betsy and also to Murgatroyd. That completely invalidates my comment, reality as a concept, and myself to boot. I am vanquished.

Is “The producer is in charge of the guns, right?” going to have to go on the next round of AV Club Commenter bingo cards?

Find 3 words in the chorus somewhere he can use and you’ve got it.

[I went off half-cocked and said only things it turns out everyone else here has already said, and they should have, because those things were awesome.]

Days to come up with that one, Interchangeable Drone? Do you folks ever wish you had something, or indeed anything, to you?

This sub-thread: “Stop Saying the Definitionally Accurate Hurty Words: The Musical: The Series”, basically.

Now call her uppity, Base Model Trash Creature.

It’s surprising the sheer breadth of eras black people didn’t actually exist in Europe according to scumbags: the middle ages, the 1700s, now, fictional times that didn’t happen but are based loosely on the middle ages, where, as we have already been informed, black people didn’t exist.

There is no such thing as wasted effort when minorities hurtie feelies.

“cancelled”

“find something offensive I said in 2015 to use against me now.”

If you haven’t got by now that jokes don’t have to be good, funny, or jokes as long as someone can reason that someone someway somewhere sometime could theoretically have found it “offensive” (i.e. didn’t laugh at it), I don’t know what to tell you.

Which random Internetter was it who pointed out that older people support their fandoms by... watching the damn shows instead of spending all their time fighting about them online?

Pretty crappy read on this unwatchable nursing-home show, but ok.

Using it to tell a story? It’ll never catch on.

Warped Simpsons quote for the occasion: “Ew, you kissed many boys. That’s so gay.”

Illinois Nazis.. Illinois Nazis never change.

Something something ethics in musical naming conventions.

Funny you should ask...