Yes, it WAS a deliberate Mythbusters shout-out! I am vindicated!

I think we're supposed to be at least irritated with her in the same ways we're irritated with Marie. Skyler took forever to realize Walt was acting out because of his fear of death. She did the eBay handjob thing, was naggy in that sitcom wife way, passively-aggressively (is that even a term?) pushed Walt into cancer…

I think we're supposed to be at least irritated with her in the same ways we're irritated with Marie. Skyler took forever to realize Walt was acting out because of his fear of death. She did the eBay handjob thing, was naggy in that sitcom wife way, passively-aggressively (is that even a term?) pushed Walt into cancer…

He's killed so many drug lords he's single-handedly winning the war on drugs.

He's killed so many drug lords he's single-handedly winning the war on drugs.

What I've never figured out is if they wrote Skyler as the buzzkill cuntrag wife on purpose to make a point which has fallen kind of flat, or if they just did it because they were caught up in Complicated Man Syndrome, then finally realized last season that they had better fix the mistake by having Skyler meta-snark…

What I've never figured out is if they wrote Skyler as the buzzkill cuntrag wife on purpose to make a point which has fallen kind of flat, or if they just did it because they were caught up in Complicated Man Syndrome, then finally realized last season that they had better fix the mistake by having Skyler meta-snark…

I liked the magnet stuff, if for no reason than it combined my two favorite shows: Breaking Bad and Mythbusters.

I liked the magnet stuff, if for no reason than it combined my two favorite shows: Breaking Bad and Mythbusters.

"Don't think it hasn't been a little slice of heaven… because it hasn't."

"Don't think it hasn't been a little slice of heaven… because it hasn't."

You're saying that any intended self-referential nature of the film did not "filter down" to the final product which, to me, sounds very similar to the film not being self-referential at all. It's just a semantics argument at this point, anyway; I'm sure we understand each other.

The three seashells is a direct riff on a very, very old joke about using corncobs in outhouses.  I am not making this up, I promise you; there are threads on Straight Dope about it if you want to check on it yourself.  The seashells joke is meta because it's the "hippie-futuristic" version of the Vaudeville-era…

The only bad part of this movie is Dennis Leary.  You can tell he's stolen the shtick because he's so uncomfortable delivering it, it's completely unnatural.  I imagine an assistant was having to feed him lines during his rant.

You say there's no way Stallone can keep making this kind of movie forever. And to that I say to you: Charles Bronson, my friend.  You're right that age doesn't mean the same in 2012 as it did in 1993. We live in an age where there are Bette Whites and William Shatners and Max von Sydows still very actively working,…

Yeah, it's pretty rotten how men who commit domestic abuse are often demonized for committing domestic abuse.

The UK tabloids last summer were relentless in portraying Rihanna as a skanky slut without talent. And, as they always do, they'd bury a paragraph in their stories about how she made the news when Chris beat her up, trying to subliminally equate "skanky slut" with "deserved beating".

The problem with the Glen Campbell comparison is that no one remembered it. When I was a wee tike I loved Tanya Tucker, yet I had no idea Campbell beat the hell outta her until I heard it elsewhere yesterday.  I would bet dollars to delicious, lard-filled donuts that had Campbell's past been remembered before the…

You're saying that as long as you ignore "genre, network, editing, intention, manipulation, and undeniable exploitation" as well as sexism, THEN it's a defensible, compelling show. At what level of denial do you have to be at to dismiss all those concerns just to excuse the actions of a lowbrow reality show? This…