I also find it interesting that now that both Hank and Dean have no clone backups Rusty is much more okay with them doing things like going to college and staying out all night (In NYC, yet!) I really think the whole quitting cloning thing, which was the one area of science Rusty really did well, is going to prove to…

Well if I’ve learned one thing from Venture Bros, it’s that parents forcing their children to follow in their footsteps never ends badly!

That’s great!  I picked up on the music but I thought that was the extent of the reference.

The problem here is that the publisher is a step removed from the bad advice.  It makes sense that they would have a lower standard of duty.  They probably publish lots of books and can’t reasonably be expected to fact check them all.  Whereas the author is a lot more involved in the production of the book, and has a…

Patrick Stewart: So in the new Picard tv show, I play a man who controls the world with his mind.

The TPP thing is nonsense. It was created as an effort to bring economies across the Atlantic into a mutually beneficial trade partnership to counter the rise of an increasingly aggressive China.

Sedaris is broad but that’s the best Amy Sedaris

A couple years ago there was a really great Scooby Doo series called Mystery Incorporated. In one of the episodes, “Randy Warsaw”’s “Artwerks” was under attack by a monster, so the gang went undercover to figure it out. Velma became Warsaw’s muse, Fred became a shirtless cowboy named “Beef,” and Scooby put on a long…

He was hardcore in favor of it in 2007, at least - not sure if he changed his opinion in the last four years of his life.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2007/03/so_mr_hitchens_werent_you_wrong_about_iraq.html

This is a bad take because it leaves out the Sephardim who lived in Palestine for thousands of years, and did decently okay at getting along with the ethnically Arabic inhabitants. Not great (there was occasional communal violence, also discriminatory tax structures), but definitely not “the same pattern, repeating in…

“Israel is racist as hell” and “Other countries were racist towards Israel” are not mutually exclusive ideas. They can both be true! And a number of Israel’s racist policies have nothing to do with any security threat they faced from their neighbors. For instance, what security purpose is served by the ban on…

And Dreama Walker as Squirrel Girl!

One thing I think about Shore Leave is that he’s not the only gay character. There’s also the Alchemist and Colonel Gentleman. So it’s not like the show is saying “this is what all gay people are like” - there’s also a magical schlub and a genteel adventurer to balance out the stereotypical depiction (which as you say…

Also, related to this: we know that Vendata (the cyborg who used to be on the Council of 13) was built by Jonas in 1976, the same year that the Monarch’s parents died. And we also know that he was traumatized before he became a cyborg and didn’t really want to do it. So Vendata is (the corpse of) the Monarch’s not-dad?

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The eponymous Venture brothers are Hank and Dean (Jackson Publick and Michael Sinterniklaas), fraternal twins who are based on the brothers from the Hardy Boys.

There was a show a few years ago called Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated, and in one episode the kids visited “Randy Warsaw’s Artwerks,” complete with a version of the Velvet Underground as its house band. Later on in the episode, Scooby went undercover as the band’s singer, “Freako.”

I haven’t watched beyond this episode yet, but I wonder if that wasn’t intentional - have her bust out some actual wrestling skills at some point for a big pop from the audience (the IRL one, not the in-show one).

I like her performance, because she nails the most important part of the “ditzy broad” character - you’re never quite sure whether she’s very stupid, or very smart about pretending to be stupid.

Southern California had a pretty active hardcore punk scene in the early-mid 80s though. Black Flag, Social Distortion, NOFX, etc.

Other people have already interpreted Sam’s work behavior in what I think is the right way - he’s scared shitless about his ability to do this without getting fired by the network so he’s insecure and lashing out.  But I think that same explanation is driving his treatment of Justine.  He’s scared shitless about his…