Nobody, probably, and my guess is he didn’t write it with the intention of it becoming a popular best-seller or anything. He wrote it because he wanted to write. I’ve written four novels, none of which went anywhere (I self-published them on Amazon, for fun), and I didn’t care if they went anywhere. I wanted to see if…

I also enjoyed Covenant as an improvement over Prometheus

Pretty sure the result of this alternative timeline would have meant that both movies would have sucked instead of just Covenant, so I can’t share the sentiment.

Yeah, it feels like we’re just gonna have to wait through a couple years of neo-luddite panic about any prospect of computerized analysis of “creative” media.

I remember when it was fueled by Nicholas Cage clicks.

If AV Club doesn’t keep pumping out the filler then it folds. If AV Club folds then I will have nothing to do and may go back to waving my penis at passing cars.

Or “Grimy”, as she likes to be called.

X marks despot.

This definitely wasn’t on my bingo card.

We used to call my great-aunt on the other side of the state — this is when long distance calls cost money — during Playhouse or his prime time specials, just to say the secret word and hear her scream, because we knew she’d be watching too.

I think society changed enough since then that we all collectively realized how silly it was that we prudishly shamed Reubens for doing a totally harmless normal thing, and Reubens felt that.

Dude was brilliant in every role. Even his turn in the original Buffy the Vampire Slayer elevated a largely forgettable movie. It’s a shame all his talent was overshadowed by the fact that he pulled pud in a smut house.

I was just thinking about this. It’s crazy that something initially dreamed up as a parody of Frank Miller’s Daredevil run has lasted for almost 40 years. 

It consistently boggles my mind just how enduring TMNT are. I still have fond memories of my friends and I trying, sincerely, to learn ninja from a ton of ninja books from the library, back in ‘89. The idea of kids trying that today doesn’t seem possible, because it would probably be a TikTok ‘thing’ and done for…

“but also it’s a Sunday and the Hollywood unions are on strike”

Sam, if you’re reading this, are you smelling burnt toast?

To intimate what? That he’s your boyyyyfriiieeeend??

Remember when the A.V. Club used to do deep dives into like the 2000's Midwest punk scene and there’d be like 500 comments?

I own a tenth of one.

I hadn’t heard of this usage, but such figurative use is annoying. It’s literally the worst thing since Hitler!