Alright I'll give you that, that was good. I'll dial it back.

I'm not saying Stewart and that whole wing of political comedy doesn't have the same problem. Just don't act like South Park is this emotionless paragon of truth-telling because they've half-heartedly criticized the extreme version of a libertarian position once or twice.

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Why is it that people complaining about oversensitivity on the internet are always the most sensitive about their ideas being criticized?

And if there's one thing this season's premiere showed it's that Matt and Trey definitely respect counter criticism.

No you're right, if there's one thing Matt and Trey have in spades it's a willingness to look critically at their own beliefs and the ability to react maturely to other people who do that.

This is the show whose premiere compared people criticizing the creators' opinions to frat boys beating up children, right? Just making sure we're on the same page as far as the "can dish it but can't take it" argument goes.

I don't know, I personally thought it was entertaining in and of itself. Mike Stoklasa is very good at explaining why a movie is good or bad, not just whether or not it is. It's a skill some AV Club reviewers still haven't learned.

What Smith are you referring to? I honestly don't know.

He can barely finish jokes any more. And god forbid you pair him with Lapkus or Daly or someone else exceptionally quick witted, it's incessant.

Eh Kick Ass really fell apart in the third act, I thought. I didn't know a History of Violence was a comic, though. I guess that counts.

I forgot about animated versions, of which I can think of several. How about live-action, though?

Has there been any direct comic book/graphic novel adaptation that has ever been as good as the original? Like, the plots of Marvel and DC movies are amalgamations of storylines and/or invented wholesale and those are sometimes pretty good, but I really can't think of a comic book adaptation that has come anywhere…

Yeah, sometimes "The bad guy was just a henchman!" endings work, but that was not one of those cases.

Just as annoying is the "Why hasn't he gotten one yet?" jerk. Honestly, there has been a better performance in contention every time he has been up for it (even if McConaughey won his Oscar for True Detective). I like him, but there's a wealth of great leading men out there, some of whom are just more versatile.

I mean because of the Peter Principle thing.

There's a weirdly endearing innocence to "Fateful Findings", despite the climactic scene involving multiple symbols of the state graphically killing themselves. Like just the fact that Neil Breen seems to honestly think that sex consists of only taking off clothes above the torso and chastely kissing.

OH COME ON

The comedy is hit or miss (though it's very good when it hits), but my god does it nail the dramatic moments.

Yeah even for PFT that was an excessive amount of background breaking. He seems to break for literally everything Lapkus says, regardless of how funny it is.