As someone who hated the Cosby show (mainly because I was in a latch key upper lower middle class household) I have to say I was still surprised. I think it is being born in the 70's and just not thinking of him in those terms. 

I’m echoing the praise and well wishes you and your colleagues will receive. I disagreed with you on a lot (most recently Spencer), but you’re a damn good writer and a damn funny guy. I will give Gizmodo leadership a scathing C+ in your honor.

I doubt you or Rife can reply to this, and I’m kinda doubtful you’ll even see it, but thanks for the years of writing for this site, edifying and entertaining a bunch of wannabe smartasses. I wish you and your colleagues the best on your future endeavors.

Totally get what you are saying.  To be honest I don’t get watching others play video games either.  I feel like these are things younger people then I do because they have much more free time to blow on such things.  

For the life of me, I will never understand the appeal of watching others play D&D.   Turning that content into a show also seems odd.  I know the Dragonlance books are heavily based on the campaign that they ran at TSR but Weis and Hickman admit its very loosely based and that much of the Dragonlance story did not…

Jeez, a 5-paragraph recap of a 9-minute Late Show segment to say “David Cross to release [probably bad] stand-up special”? Are there not enough streaming TV shows or movies to chat about for you, AV Club?

It’s been confirmed in the text of the show, Leota’s phone call with Waller in the first episode.

The DC honchos have pretty much given up on MCU-style strict continuity, which is great because the Snyderian pomp of yesteryear’s DC would never allow for a show like Peacemaker, and would especially forbid the inclusion of wacky comics characters like Bat-Mite, Matter-Eater Lad, or The Detachable Kid.

Vigilante vs. the Nazis was the most cathartic five minutes of television I’ve seen in over a year.

This episode is more like it, we seem to have left the have-it-both-ways misogyny-parody of misogyny behind.

I have a feeling that, whatever’s going on with the Butterflies here, it’s not as simple as an “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” type plot. Between Judomaster leaving Economos alive despite having every single opportunity to kill him and Murn leading the efforts to seemingly hunt down his own kind so sincerely (and…

Vigilante is such a blast to watch, although now I’m shocked that there would be someone claiming he isn’t an absolute psychopath. The actor, though, does such a great job with him as there is that inept air to him which is this great mask of what an absolute terror the dude truly is.

The Nightly Show was CC’s best attempt so far at replacing Colbert and I miss it so much. The fucking Bill Nye segment killed the show in the public eye and made it easy for the network to cancel. I still maintain that the segment was attempting to satirize anti-science and anti-intellectualism, but it 1) misfired…

Cosby is like school in the summertime.

Where’s Larry Wilmore?

I wish it could work that way (enjoying the art again) for Fat Albert. That was part of my childhood and there was so much good about it. The kids were all misfits and accepted each other. Albert was the popular one. They dealt with stuff like talking about child abuse.

I never watched the sitcom, but obviously I saw much of his stand-up and was a big fan of “Fat Albert” as a young kid. But, no, this is definitely someone whose work I will never, ever revisit, even after they die. He’s gone forever.

It’s not like there were any warning signs like Cosby playing a gynecologist who worked from a home office on TV *checks notes* oh wait...