My question is, how does he expect the recaps to be written? Are they supposed to stick "(but not really, because this is a work of fiction)" at the end of every sentence? Are they supposed to act like your seventy-year-old father who's seen four episodes and go "red-haired girl and wolf boy wander around the part…

Very carefully.

People always say that, but everyone I've known knows the difference between Marvel and DC (and usually between Marvel Studios and Fox/Sony/etc.). Maybe I just know a lot of secret nerds or something, but I think the name counts for something.

Spelling it "Johnson" is one hell of a typo!

Haha, seriously? Even I hadn't heard of the Guardians before they announced the movie and I've been reading Marvel comics since I was four years old.

1963, if you count whatever's going on with Iceman; 1978, if we're counting villains; 1979, if Alpha Flight counts; 1980, if it doesn't but New Mutants does; 1987, if neither of those counts but X-Factor does; 1992, if it only counts after the character comes out; ~2001, if they need to be both out and an actual, bona…

They went to "Planet Zero", because that is apparently a less ridiculous name to some people.

I haven't seen it, so I live in a better world where I frequently forget Suicide Squad even exists.

DC should get in on something like this, too. I hear Henry Cavill has the mustache for it now.

Yes…kids…

And Wonder Woman is objectively a bigger "name" than ninety percent of the heroes Marvel makes movies out of. Of course a decent movie starring the single most famous superheroine in the history of comics, who has a twenty-year headstart on everyone but Captain America, is going to outgross characters like Ant-Man and…

UNAGI.

Also Little Women.

"A periodontist?! That's the smallest body part you can major in!"

Counterpoint: both.

It's doubly annoying that they kind of waffle on Sheldon's level of comprehension of his own dickishness — a lot of the time he doesn't notice and doesn't care, but in other episodes he seems to know he's doing it and does it on purpose, and in others he doesn't realize and is actually kind of upset that he can't…

I didn't mean to say it could never be funny, as I said in another response, but I find sometimes (not necessarily in these sketches) gender ambiguity is the punchline in and of itself, and that's what I don't understand.

I can't use the NBC/SNL website since I don't live in the States.

Yeah, the whole thing makes me a little uncomfortable. I sincerely doubt anyone went into the sketches or movie with the express intention of making fun of trans people, and "propaganda" is probably overblown, but I feel like the premise would be difficult to carry off without playing into some kind of stereotype or…

It doesn't actually matter if Pat is trans or not — it's about how gender presentation is pretty strictly enforced along the male/female binary and the entitlement to "answers" that some people feel when faced with someone who doesn't follow those rules to a certain standard (and that can happen to people who aren't…