"Ah heck nah" doesn't quite convey the same feeling, though.

I always assumed (wrongly, I guess) that Illium was Troy, for that reason.

Well, the only non-white character is shown as a drunkard, a petty thief, a liar, and he's also the only character described with that level of disdain ("huge beaver teeth" are bad enough, but egad, socks with sandals?). So there's that.

The Joker we deserve, but not the one we needed.

Morrissey does his own graphic design? That's wonderful.

The latter.

It's not weird that he has pets. It's a little weird that he was on the cover of a cat magazine, but why not let the guy show the world his love of felines. At least he's not firing or denigrating them in the press.

Yeah, take a page, Kozelek.

Anyone else think it's a missed opportunity to not have set these in Cooper Black? Plus, saying "fuck you" in such a friendly typeface is wonderful.

Well, not all of them.

Yeah, I genuinely don't understand why they'd need to burn the episodes off, since almost all of the main cast is doing pretty well outside of the show.

Sounds like it's permanently changing the structure of his plots.

Hey, remember that thing from childhood, and the attendant warm feelings? Now it's been repurposed as biting social commentary. See, they took a nice thing and made it into kind of a not nice thing. Satire!

I think you're referring to the "dry drunk" phenomenon, where some people who are on the wagon continue to be the same jerks they were when they were on the sauce.

The AV Club

…or cocaine.

I mostly just do punch-up work.

"No thanks, I just enjoy standing in long lines" would have been just as funny without being bizarrely insulting. But any professional standup has probably developed a thick enough skin that they won't lose much sleep over getting heckled in the autograph line. Or they'll work it into a bit.

Everything's cool at the chicken co-opted co-op co-coop.

I'm assuming she'll be playing Susan Kare, the graphic designer behind many of Apple's early icons and some we're still using, like the command symbol. No? A love interest? Well, that's cool too, I guess.