the good ones haven’t really been making money either, but yeah i’m not shocked ‘dear evan hansen’ didn’t set the world on fire.

I don’t understand this at all. If you don’t like the dish being offered, order something else. If you want chicken or mushrooms, order a dish with chicken or mushrooms in it. Why would you insist on ordering something but demand they change the entire recipe? 

They’ve been heading out for like 60 years.

The absolute best part of the interview:

The question is why are KotFM and Napoleon considered successes versus the Marvels. Similar budgets et al.

I’m going to miss these thoughtful, introspective discussions when AV Club shuts down abruptly overnight sometime early next year and flips to a Latin music radio station format.

I don't understand why the rights owners to the songs aren't happy to have their songs streaming on shows. It's perpetual advertisement for their songs. 

I was a HUGE Fig Newtons freak in college. I tried them again a few years ago and they were awful. Not even “fig” Newtons. And don’t get me started on Pepperidge Farm cookies. A big holiday tradition for my family was the “gourmet assortment”  of Milanos and other yummies.  Now it tastes like the butter has been…

The name of the show is Fliplanthropy

Denis Rader’s daughter wrote a whole book about her struggle to deal with learning he was the BTK Killer. It’s pretty interesting, if a bit heavy on religion.

I still remember how great the soda pop Squirt tasted when it contained bits of grapefruit pulp from real juice. I miss the 20th century.

To be fair (/insert Letterkenny gif here), 20 years since your last Butterfinger is a damn long time. If you were a kid then, that might be part of it - kids don’t exactly have discerning palates. I can’t stomach much of the treats & snacks I found irresistible as a kid.

when I was a kid I loved butterfingers. Hadn’t had one in like, I dunno, 20 years. Ate one from the kids’ Halloween bucket and it was.....off. Like a weird half-assed version of the thing I remember. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, it just wasn’t AS good. 

That kinda gets defanged in the scene where he mentions that. He mentions that it’s culturally iffy for him, but primarily his opposition to Asher talking to her about it is that he just got his daughter to stop going on and on about it and he doesn’t want it to start again. The joke is that Asher doesn’t hear that at…

He was moving with his eyes too much. It also could’ve turned him into a quadriplegic.

Most definitely.  Ritz has been awhile ago.  Not my go-to anymore.  Very disappointing. 

there’s a surreal vibe definitely; and then there’s a supernatural ambiguity; reinforced by the father who doesn’t want to hear about curses; and the little girl saying “I’m sorry”

You are the detective the world needs.

Will Abshir be a new man? Or is he grievously injured now.

The talk about the paint drying fast was surely an allusion to the old line about something being as exciting as watching paint dry.