I never watched Entourage, so I find all of this amusing. It sounds like people are ripping the movie for being all about male bad behavior, yet wasn't the show about the same thing? And if it was so vapid, how did it last for 8 seasons and no one made these same observations about the disturbing underlying messages?

Scott Pilgrim is a charming comic book, and a movie, about a young man in Toronto who plays in a rock band. Your post reminded me of that.

You're like the real-life Scott Pilgrim.

It seems 1995 was right around the time the Internet became a household thing. I didn't get online until 1996, and I remember my first search was "Teri Hatcher", and the picture took forever to download.

Somehow, both Al Pacino and Johnny Depp were persuaded to appear in Jack and Jill (and Pacino's role is actually pretty extensive). Hollywood is a strange place.

What's next, a look back at how Phil Collins was actually better than we give him credit for? Yikes. Huey Lewis was as bland as a ham sandwich, and time has done nothing to make that handful of hits seem any better. I always felt ripped off that my college years (mid- to late-80s) coincided with a dreadfully bland…

There are numerous arguments against that stance, though. For one thing, it's a real ad, developed by a real guy named Bill Backer. Mad Men has not been in the habit of insisting that fake people like Don Draper created real ads like the VW campaign. Megan never became Sharon Tate, Don never became DB Cooper, the…

I went to bed thinking Don stayed in California, and that the Coke ad was done by someone else (Peggy, maybe?). The cultural changes of the 60s made such an ad inevitable, so if Don wasn't going to do it, some other clever and perceptive creator would. This is about the time that Madison Avenue started exploiting the…

Caillou was also incredibly selfish and insensitive to everyone around him, yet the adults would do whatever he wanted. It's almost like right-wingers created him as the worst-case example of what can happen if you have permissive parents and you watch too much PBS.

Dylan released his New Morning album in October of 1970. The title song and several others are odes to the pleasures of family life and simplicity. It would fit, chronologically and thematically.

Perfect symmetry. The pilot episode was a bunch of ad guys literally throwing the surgeon general's cancer report in the trash, and in the next to last episode, Draper's hapless ex-wife has lung cancer, after years of smoking the cigarettes Don pitched. And I've been waiting for the Dick Whitman Korean War con game to…

Almost too many to name. Arrow/The Flash/Game of Thrones/Kimmy Schmidt/House of Cards/Scandal/The Americans. I need to catch up on Comedy Central shows like Inside Amy Schumer and some others. Mad Men and Better Call Saul were shows I followed as they came out, but otherwise it is hard for me to keep up.

"Jagged Little Pill was powerful and resonant and a surprise hit album" isn't really a contrarian POV. It's probably the lead sentence on the Wikipedia article.

Roger Sterling's organ was the highlight of the episode.

Yes, please.

Don Draper is Don Quixote.

I hope he's not going crazy. I just thought his Bert Cooper fever-dream was the result of lack of sleep.

So . . the man in shirtsleeves is Diana's EX-husband, correct? And the woman in the apron is his current wife? I missed some of the dialogue and got confused.
And I believe the actor in that scene was previously used as a Dow Chemical staff member a couple of seasons ago. I hope not, because I want all this stuff to…

Mine would be those televised celebrity roasts. They are sexist, racist, homophobic and shallow and also funny as hell.

I love Sweet Home Alabama no matter how much classic rock stations have tried to overplay it. So either that counts as loving something I disagree with, or the author is misinterpreting the intent of the song.