Or just, "Sometimes characters are dumb and ignorant, so they say dumb and ignorant things." It's like so many reviewers are trained to look for elements that could be superficially "problematic" on the surface without actually thinking more deeply about that element and why it is that way in the work.

Either one is fine. Jay Leno's chin bends the space-time continuum.

Some people just have really strange / strict lines like that. It seemed like the girlfriend of the second guy who came in got mad at him for having a beer, too.

Right— these people are usually the straight man to Nathan, but when we're laughing at them it's generally because they've volunteered something of their own accord.

I loved watching Nathan do "tricks" with the beers, which of course shook them up and caused them to foam over.

I was really surprised the store owner never just flat-out said, "All these swastikas make it look like we're selling Nazi memorabilia, or we're a white-power outdoors store."

I definitely went and looked up what league the "Houston Gamblers" and "Tampa Bay Pirates" belonged to.

Yeah, but what did your girlfriend think?

Yeah, these are the gun lovers who make me wary. The guy is clearly living some Wild West fantasy, down to the most inarticulate attempt at an Al Swearengen speech I've ever heard, and complete with a toy Sheriff's badge. You keep securing those rights, buddy.

I always excused it as the fact that people were responding to him speaking honestly, whether or not the things he said were "true," in lieu of telling stale / expected jokes. This being the AV Club and all, I thought the writer might compare that to Donald Trump's current presidential campaign.

I stand by it being both. The ponytail is Carlin, but some of the stuff about advertising and dead celebrities and selling out could have been Hicks verbatim.

Nah, dude, you're not a Real Nerd if you don't condescendingly look down on sports, don't you know?

Yeah, a few months back I started cutting my follow list back seriously; I'd gotten too far into the entertainers and the like into people who were primarily Internet Personalities, and found myself wading through cries for attention and attempts to out-Mean Girl the other tweeters to get to anything worth reading. So…

That's not nearly as important as long as, after one of your performances, the audience can agree that It Has Been Broughten.

My biggest hits so far have been Amy Winehouse - "Valerie" and Dion and the Belmonts - "Runaround Sue". I think Danzig - "Mother" and Robert Palmer - "Simply Irresistible" went over well as well.

Damn, dude, if you can pull off "Whole Lotta Love" and still have the kind of range for "Problem" and "Work It", we gotta party sometime.

Karaoke party coming next time one of us is withing reasonable range of the other!

Yup, I turned 14 right at the start of that school year. I think the album came out in '94, but it had, I think, four hit singles, and I know "I'll Make Love to You" was the first one, so it wasn't likely to still be heavy in the rotation a year later.

Selfies were a lot better when you had to hire an artist to paint them over months at a time, and only the aristocracy could afford them.

"Irony"? There's nothing ironic about it.