My favorite Scott moment may be his dual roles in "Complicated Movie", a sketch that's silly and funny in all the ways The Kids perfected, but also reaches a kind of sweetness and sophistication and beauty.

If that level of thoughtfulness did go into that little snippet of screen direction, it was not evident anywhere else in the script.

Having read the whole script, I feel pretty safe in saying that calling Lucifer "the son of god" was not indicative of some interesting artistic license. It's pretty clear that Tom Kapinos is simply completely ignorant.

Somehow I got a hold of the script for this. The screen directions describe the main character as "Yes, that Lucifer. The one who rebelled. The son of god."

I was about 8 or 9 when I watched Manos: The Hands of Fate with my parents while we were on a MST3K kick. I didn't find it scary, exactly, but like Erik Adams, it did leave me pretty unsettled. The next day, my Dad admitted that it had given him a nightmare in which The Master was haunting him, as punishment for…

My favorite part of Matt Taibbi's piece on Ayn Rand:

Why would a kid with a trust fund go to community college? Leave community college out of your gibes!

I think one of the reasons TSFS gets so much flak – and I agree with you that it's not as bad as is often argued – is that, good or bad, it feels inessential. The first film is as dull as ditchwater, but it's unique in the series and at times it reaches a kind of serene beauty. The fifth film is a goofy mess, but…

The corp, the corp, the corp.

Header photo should have been from Calvary.

Oh, man, I thought I'd seen this before. Glad it wasn't just me.

I haven't seen this season of SV, Louie, or Veep, so I'm unqualified to comment, but it shocks me that there could be anything on TV this year that was worse than Transparent.

rrrright, but if you don't actually agree with what would be the "bravest" thing to say, should you still say it, just because it's forbidden?

I don't find South Park particularly good overall, but I agree with you that it's strongest and funniest when it leans on building its absurd world, rather than when it reaches for a statement.

Sure, I'm not questioning their integrity. If that's what they believe (or believed), that's fine. My point was that their reputation for being brave iconoclasts isn't really supported by their work. They are far more likely to attack the irrelevant than the powerful, and there's nothing particulary daring about that.

But that's exactly the time when telling hard truths and standing up to power counts most: when the prevailing sentiment is against you. If Parker and Stone had an ounce of the courage they're credited as having, they would have called bullshit on that blind patriotism when it was happening.

You can address 9/11 with grace and still draw Osama Bin Laden as an Elmer Fudd cartoon.

I think you might be slightly (greatly) exaggerating the amount of story in Galaxy. You begin the first level in five minutes, and that's if you don't count count the introductory level outside Princess Peach's castle - a small area that is designed to teach you how the Wiimote feels, as you put it. That course starts…

While my roommate and his girlfriend patiently waited for me to finish an All-Star match in Smash, I had the opportunity to explain to them Rosalina's origin and her role as god in the Mario universe. (Not the God, probably, but by any fair definition, certainly a god.) We all agreed that the ending of Super Mario…

Here's an amusing re-edit of this scene substituting Pee-Wee Herman lines for the killer's: