I really liked the Amelia Earhart stuff on a number of levels. For one thing, it’s such a dumb-funny version of the story - she flies to the sun so everybody can think about what an uplifting thing she did, instead of thinking about where she is now. For another thing, it helps explain why she became an agent; she…

Diane has that great line in the first season when Bojack asks her if he’s a good person, deep down, and she says that she doesn’t believe in “deep down,” that people are just the sum of all the stuff they do. I think that’s pretty much the core of the show’s moral attitude - that it doesn’t make sense to think about…

(its also suspicious that the only meat they ever seem to try to replicate is beef. I have yet to see anyone try to replicate chicken, pork, or the multiple types of seafood out there).

Although I think there’s a whole nother dimension to this - it’s not just about what we see on screen, it’s about what happens behind the scenes. “Diane” may be a reasonably non-racist depiction of a Vietnamese-American woman, but there’s structural racism in the fact that a white actress got the role instead of an…

Maybe Little Caesar is Augustus, and Mr. Peanutbutter is playing his adoptive dad Julius.

I dunno if they’re on Comixology, but if you liked Saga you should check out Runaways and Y: The Last Man.  They’re both by Brian K. Vaughan, the writer of Saga, and they’re both really great.

It’s funny that you say that, because to me as someone from Vegas, Sam’s Town is the most sincere album in its depiction of what it’s like to actually be from Vegas.  I think that’s where the sincerity is, and that carries it past any issues with the genre or whatever.

I think that depends on how we define “bottle episode.” Are we defining it solely by everything being set in one location? Or is it a broader term, meaning “episode made under constraints in order to save money?” I kind of think it should be the latter. The interesting thing about bottle episodes is how they work…

TOM JUMBO-GRUMBO: A blog post about Jessica Biel is gaining attention for the seemingly minor detail that the candidate would not eat an avocado, calling the savory fruit, quote, “disgusting.”

That’s supposed to be what parole and probation officers are for.  Unfortunately, only some of those officers legitimately care about helping their charges - many of them view their jobs as essentially authoritarian and similar to prison guards.  The other problem is that the system is really badly underfunded, so…

TITUS: Ever since I was a child, I was always fascinated by Major Tony Nelson's failed space flight: his capsule crash-landing on a desert island, knocking over a genie bottle, releasing Barbara Eden... Thank you, NASA. (happily) She was his slave!

Gene Wilder died on August 19, 2016 (according to Wikipedia) - not recent.

I agree with that, I was just specifically responding to the Hulk bit.

I mean, I kind of think the basic metaphor of the Hulk is that Bruce Banner starts out as a villainous nerd, right?  Like Peter David said, he was mad at the world and his response was to build a giant bomb.

You’re making an assumption here that bros haven’t experienced abuse and trauma, and another assumption that bros are typically bigoted bullies. I think the first assumption is a very badly flawed and potentially hurtful one. All kinds of people can be abused, and I feel like bros in particular tend to come from…

Oh, I agree that it will get you looked at weird, because it’s an outdated term that nobody really uses anymore.  But you’re not going to get hit for using it unless you’re doing something else that’s actually offensive (like a white person making nasty references to “colored people time” or something like that).

I really liked this bit from Sasheer Zamata:

“Most people don’t understand that when you watch a stand-up set, you’re not watching a finished product unless you’re watching them tape their special. It’s a weird art form where in order to get better we have to work out our material in front of an audience, and sometimes…

Where is the word being used? If both parties are the US, that’s a lot more of an issue than if both parties were in South Africa. The location of the use informs the contextual question about whether it’s offensive or not. For pop music, people are listening everywhere around the world (including the UK), so I think…

Hank Scorpio cared about his workers and was attentive to their health and safety. He’s less of a supervillain than Musk, really.

This all makes sense to me in policy terms. My point is just that the law (except in a few states like California with more employee-friendly laws) doesn’t require that kind of treatment. On a meta level, it probably does make sense for the company to have a policy of strict content-neutrality in order to avoid…