I really want to know what the original Devil's Advocate script was like…

…that you later realize only ended up spanning like a day and a half.

Yep. It's a BuzzFeed list turned into a show.

If social media has taught me anything, it's that insecurity + self-aggrandizement + BuzzFeed lists = people routinely trying to define themselves based on empty comparisons to easily-digested pop culture.

The problem I have is that it's telling me "LOOK, LOOK, THIS IS FUNNY, LOOK AT HOW FUNNY THIS IS! EVERYONE IS LAUGHING! YOU SHOULD LAUGH!" but I'm left with this weird feeling that maybe my brain just isn't wired to accept the setup to non-jokes as rolling on the floor funny.

Everything wrong with The Big Bang Theory in 16 seconds.

(It looks like Disqus ate my last reply. It appeared, gave me an error, then vanished.)

Everyone's a 1099 these days. :(

Apple has zero say in what seasons are called. The decision has nothing to do with them. And until now, they didn't particularly care.

@avclub-57985f8fc049b74b130bd6f55173d2e5:disqus Yep. And if you watch 2001-era SD footage on YouTube, it looks pretty much like crappy quality video from the past few years that someone's uploaded to YouTube. Especially if it's letterboxed.

If you watch something from 2001 and something from 1991, you see a huge difference in styles, everyday technology and even (or rather, especially) the technology used to record it. It's unavoidable.

Most people just put on some Joy Division and Magnetic Fields songs and "go back in time" by mentally retreating to the cheerful, nonexistent relationship moments they imagined actually happened.

I remember this exchange:

That's exactly what I was thinking, but I haven't seen the film since it first came out on VHS 14 years ago (!!), so I didn't want to make the comparison without a clear memory of the plot.

GLORY TO YOU… and your mouuuuuuuuuse.

Somewhere, a bacon manufacturing executive is rubbing his hands together with maniacal glee.

In late '70s NYC, Sally tries to embrace disco, only to discover her equilibrium was forever damaged by prenatal alcohol consumption.

Even when the restrictions against unrated films don't exist, there's a lot of resistance to screening films without an MPAA certification as it's seen by theater owners as undermining the ratings system.

Many theaters have leases that forbid them from showing unrated films.

I would like this, but that feature won't be installed until Tuesday.