The relationship between Dave and his mom was proof against anyone who thought Letterman's show/attitude/shtick was far too ironic or snarky or whatever to be enjoyable. Yes, he was self aware, and yes he tore back the veneer from the show-biz-y elements of television spectacle. And he wasn't shy about taking…

"Celebrity wringers" sounds like a kind of specialized fan fiction sub-genre dedicated to BDSM breath-play. Once again, the AV Club's unreliable copy editing yields another Tumblr URL to claim.

Not so much "splash" as "squish."

Those aren't perks. They're buboes.

The last time I ate a Pizza Hut pizza and was more than just sated by it was back when I tried their "triple-decker" pizza for the few months it was available. The stuffed-crust concept had more of a fanbase, I guess, or something about a second crust squished between two cheese layers upped the risk of uncooked…

As a six year old, he may be overqualified.

I recognize that Trump and his followers have had an effect on people's propensity toward violence. I do not see that effect here.

Damn. Thanks to my complete inability to follow any sort of choreography, now I can never fly Air France.

I'll take my chances with an airline that's deliberately in pieces.

I did that for a few years too. Then someone told me I was supposed to learn to love Big Brother, not my big brother. Now Thanksgiving is awkward.

Violence wasn't the first action, though. I don't know the specifics of United's policies, but I bet they've got their ass legally covered, in that they have the right to deny seating and require travelers to surrender their seat in certain unspecified situations. Since purchasing a ticket on their private airline…

Time to bump this comment up to the discussion about Portland, ME v. Portland, OR in the earlier thread.

Anal isn't interesting. We're not in the '60s anymore.

Not the Gilmore Girls: A XXX Parody could go some interesting places.

Pretty sure Vin Diesel was a tooth fairy who was babysitting one of Lauren Graham's kids, who had found a magic lamp with a genie Sinbad inside.

He was very trollish and churlish, but definitely a real guy. His Disqus name was "sconn" if I recall correctly. He tried to contribute to the discourse quite a bit, but there were times when he'd just go off the deep end. His pet argument was that The Beatles were an overblown boy-band and they stole the "Best Band…

I was in Room, when I had this great idea to roll my son up in a carpet.

Anyone remember that argumentative commenter from a few years back who was quite insistent that the comics community were actively stonewalling him and his comedic Jewish superhero character "Radioactive Rabbi"?

Jesus' Son is a criminally underappreciated movie.

You're right about Jaye Davidson; now that I reflect on it more, it was mainly because of the GASP!REVEAL moment from that movie that people were wondering about which category Davidson might be nominated for. This was, of course, in a nascent-Internet era, where spoilers were few and not too many folks had heard…