Or perhaps "United Passions," the FIFA movie that grossed about $600 in its opening weekend.

Did you think you could come waltzing back into our lives after having walked out on us like you did, hand us a new My World of Flops, and expect all of the hurt and resentment to suddenly just melt away? Why yes, you absolutely can and should expect that.

Well, it think everybody's experiences are different. In my experience, teachers are like most other occupations or professions - they truly run the gamut. At one end are truly inspiring ones, who labor under heroic circumstances and inspire students in a way that awakens potential nobody else saw in them. At the…

Of course school could be interesting, and I'm pretty sure that many of the things in school that I was fascinated by were subjects that others found to be a complete bore. That wasn't really the point. The point is there's something particularly demeaning about the act of authority figures re-purposing…

By now it shouldn't really be any surprise that the very rich and powerful tend to view all the corrupt things they do to line their own pockets as a heroic sacrifices for the benefit of us, the poor unwashed masses. But I guess it's helpful to be reminded of it every now and then.

Based on what I've read about it, if you added in a few flashy musical numbers Entourage would probably make a passable Bollywood musical.

A while back A.V. Club ran an article about admired artifacts of pop culture that people refuse to delve into out of spite, rather than the relative merits of the work. For me Calvin and Hobbes would be pretty high on that list.

Club Paradise is definitely one of those films you grow up thinking is pretty good, and then later you find that out it's considered lame by everybody else. In fact, I don't recall it even being mentioned in any of the various career retrospectives A.V. Club and other sites ran when Harold Ramis died last year. I get…

I could imagine a decent science fiction movie where space explorers crash-land on a planet populated exclusively by the offspring of the male characters from "Entourage" and the female characters from "Sex and the City." Actually, it's more of a sci-fi *horror* movie, like "Alien" or "Predator."

"This week on Bob Benson: Man of Mystery, a favor for Manolo leads Bob into a deadly game of cat and mouse!"

When discussing Kinsey either here or on another section somebody posited he would've become a scientologist, given he'd already joined an offbeat sect before (Krishna), his desire to make it in the TV and movie business, and his affinity for sci-fi. Most likely though Elizabeth Moss would have had some issues with…

I think it's simply the classic example of a pilot idea that never comes to fruition. As in Weiner thought, "Back then, all calls to big offices were routed through switchboards with actual live operators, and this made these women somewhat powerful in the office, and we could do some stories about that," except that…

Personally, I would have liked to find out what happened to the girls who operated the switchboard. They were showcased prominently in a scene in the pilot as if they were going to be a major part of the show, and then practically vanished thereafter. Like, they'd have a scene set in the distant future when somebody…

They tried to develop Sal more by giving him a "beard" marriage and having him take interest in directing commercials but yeah, I always thought Bob Benson was slightly more interesting because here was this guy who had Don's humble background issues AND was gay, which was sort of a double whammy. Yet Bob seemed to…

The scenes at the VFW lodge and the call to Peggy were more than enough on the identity theft angle. In some ways the stolen identity plot line became an albatross around the show's neck. Once I was talking to a friend of mine about TV shows and he said he couldn't get into "Mad Men" because he just didn't see a man…

It's entirely possible to put lots of effort and planning into something an have it be a miserable, regrettable failure. See: Prohibition, the Maginot Line, the Ford Edsel…

No discussion of this show is complete without a reference to the SNL spoof, "Where in the World is San Diego, California?" The sketch was only so-so, but the title still gives me a laugh after about twenty years.

If you watch the last season of Andy Griffith they're already pretty thick into transitioning to Mayberry RFD - Ken Berry and his equally vanilla son have already shown up, and Sheriff Taylor just sort of stands around, rolls his eyes, and grumbles like a man who can't wait to ditch this one-horse town and its…

That clip with the two doctors talking about bedside manner points out the greatest liability of M*A*S*H's later seasons, which is that the show was painfully unable to address any serious topics (and after Larry Linville left and Klinger quit crossdressing it was mostly serious topics) in anything but the most…

The song by itself is just sounds like, well, a song written for an SNL sketch. It's not nearly as clever as anything Weird Al would do. What "makes" the joke is the set piece itself - the expensive for SNL but cheesy for everyplace else production values, Steve Martin's mock serious tone. It's said SNL was one of the…