I hope she gets more gigs because of this. Man. “Be a face for diversity but don’t you dare fucking talk about it.” Hired for diversity, fired by them because of their racism. Wish I could find that unbelievable.

Super proud of her for telling the damn truth regardless but fucking bummed that she lost her coin. I really hope this winds up opening new and better doors for her.

Here is what the author, Alex Frith, had to say when asked for a comment:

Sadly, I have yet to get down there. Honshu is just so easy, and I lived long enough in Kyushu to never want to go back. Heh.

Sorry guys. The whole “The Simpsons is running forever” thing is my fault. I got one of those monkey’s paws in 1994.

Fun aside: if we really want to get into Okinawa though, remember that Japan itself is technically an occupying power of another culture that’s been under Japanese rule now for quite a while. So is Japanese travel kitsch around Okinawa also appropriation?

Exactly this. I’m Indian and I have met a few non-South Asians (usually white or black people) who studied Bharatanatyam (classical South Indian dance) for many years, studied under Indian gurus, lived and danced in India, and hold great reverence for the dance. That’s not cultural appropriation, that’s having a deep…

A lot of people don’t get that they don’t make the rules about things that belong to other people. And when you tell them they’re not entitled to that, well, they won’t fucking hear it.

I’d originally written that into my post, but then I thought better of it. Thank you for taking that heat.

Wait. There are people who actually think the 90s version is better?

I feel for Furie. Pepe used to be just a chill-ass frog meme, and now it’s this. I can’t imagine what it must be like to have your art co-opted by the least chill people on the planet. Good for him for fighting back.

I didn’t realize blatantly plagiarizing someone else’s creative work was honest.

Adult Swim has been doing bumpers unconnected to the shows they air for many, many years. Why are so many places all of the sudden going, “Rick and Morty’s creators totally destroyed GoT!”

I am still laughing my fool head off at that Top Gun cosplay. Gurrrrl, Kelly McGillis you ain’t.

She looks like she was about to go to a Top Gun themed party before Cheeto dragged her on this stupid vanity trip.

Apparently it does, considering the fact that I concluded it wasn’t an actual past life regression and provided multiple psychiatric explanations for how and why these sessions feel like they work. But whatever! I did it because it was a new and fun experience and that is something some people may never understand.

You know saying “Fuck you AVClub” grossly misses the point, right? The AVClub didn’t choose to make these changes, it was foisted upon them by the higher-ups in corporate (read between the lines of any official message and you get the sense that the editors/writers/operators that have been running avclub for years are…

Any list that doesn’t have Airplane! in the top 3 at least is hot fucking garbage.

The Producers is not #1?