I appreciate your interpretation, but I wouldn't say I grew out of Mario or Nintendo in general, and I don't think it's an inevitable process. Nintendo is the champion of simple game design: games that can stretch a single concept to its limit just in time for the end credits. I find a lot of joy in those types of…

In some ways it's great that Pokemon decided to go more story-centric for this installment. It feels like they've been chasing the tail of quality storytelling since diamond and pearl, where they really started to put an emphasis on it. Black and White managed to switch things up a bit and create an interesting…

I got the demo for this today and played through it on my way to work. It seems fine, and I can already see it's playing with what you can do with an endless runner format and one action button, but I feel no inclination to buy it. There's something so very bland about the new super Mario games and this is just an…

I don't know why AV club outright rejected my initial comment on this article last week. I assume it was because of the exclusively referential use of the F-word (not writing it in case of de-ja-vu) describing how it was used at the end of this episode. That kind of sours my experience commenting on this website,…

tldr: my gift this christmas is the gift of salt

Jesus. I have never been more repulsed by a returning one off character on this show more than Sophie. I don't even know why. It's not like she's got some horrible personality or anything, but everything about her is so boring and so out of place. Whenever she spoke any Jewish nomenclature my whole body seized up…

Maybe it's because I'm in an explicably great mood today, but I thought this episode was a solid (if sloppy) finale and a sign of good things to come.

There's a psychological phenomenon regarding how we deal with the sadness of death that probably has a name. It basically says that we only have so much capacity to develop an empathic connection with someone strong enough that their loss has a serious emotional effect on us. This is usually reserved for friends,…

Cool (for the first part). Yeah, it's impossible and impractical to have the same standards for everything. When I said 'getting a pass', I was thinking of the fans who ignore any criticism of the thing they like by retorting with 'You just don't get it.' Sometimes they're right and I don't get it. Sometimes I get…

I can see that. I actually really enjoy Tim and Eric's stuff and I still can't fully explain why. I binge watched a bunch of episodes a while ago and it still really gets me laughing in just the right way. There's something about the way they present their terrible ideas that works for me in ways other similar…

One of the arguments that always comes up whenever a show of this caliber comes into the public eye is how some humor is intended to ruffle people's jimmies and that that should be protected and admired. It makes any form of criticism or dismissal of 'edgy' comedy appear to be coming from a place of squeamishness. …

This would be an amazing time for Boondocks to come back. The last season really burnt me out on that team though (knowing Aaron had stepped down). It was as though they hated everything that validated the show beyond the most inane and childish jokes. How many episodes in a row did they do where Grandpa fell into…

Thanks bro

Tim and Eric really just rolls off the tongue right? Especially when it's repeated over and over in text form on the Internet. Tim and Eric. Tim and Eric. Tim and Tim and Eric Eric. Eric and Tim. Erim and Tic. Geez.

I watched an episode of this online knowing that it had a reputation for it's alt-right agenda. What I saw was, to put it simply: wretched. Terrible delivery, terrible ideas, terrible actors, terrible writing. Honestly though, I couldn't tell you jack about any political message it might be trying to say. They…

This was nice. No manifesto from me this week. This episode was fine. Congrats.

I'm surprised that AV man doesn't even reference this episodes' hyper meta self-reflections peppered throughout it. This is the most the show has addressed itself as an entity in the social sphere of media in quite a while. Every comment from Kyle in the church and Gerald in captivity was a pretty obvious statement…

I can never comprehend just how many stories have yet to be told until I watch a Bob's Burgers holiday special.

I think he just doesn't know how to act around people, and Bob is an easy target for him to vent his unchecked, underdeveloped social skills on. Think about it. Bob is always freaking out whenever you come over because he's a terrible tenant and both of you are well aware of that. He's a homely, sad little man who…

I've never been under the impression that any major expense they've made was ever done without the undercurrent of 'Oh my god that's a lot of money…' Personally, I think they've done a good job of establishing the stakes of financial insecurity for the family throughout the show's history. This episode is more…