I thought it was really novel to have a song where Kermit the Frog sings about fucking.

One of the best recurring features of the AVC golden age, Taste Test, was a food feature. But that was funny because they picked out gross things to eat, filmed it, and wrote amusing stuff about it. Back when the AV Club remembered it's an offshoot of the Onion and thus should be funny rather than painfully sincere.

This is my favorite bit of music trivia. I will tell it to anyone who is willing to hear it, and nobody ever knew it.

"Teenage Dirtbag" is, no joke, the song that got me to stop listening to the radio.

For me, attaining true hatred of "What's Up" required going to karaoke bars and hearing groups of drunk people caterwaul it.

I almost stopped watching the show because of that.

IMO "one hit wonder" isn't an interesting category if it includes records from bands that were very popular in one market but only had one hit in another. Unless the origin market is Belgium or something. It's the most interesting when it's a band that comes out of nowhere, has one big hit, and immediately drops back…

I remember "Songs For The Dumped" on the radio a decent amount. Not nearly as much as "Brick", though.

That's surprising to me. I never heard it on the radio, and "Song 2" was fucking inescapable.

I never heard any of those songs on the radio at the time. I hear them now because alternative-format radio stations tend to play '90s and '00s cuts now in the same way they used to play '80s stuff.

I had that album when I was a teenager and really enjoyed it. It's true that that song didn't really sound like the rest of the album. Unfortunately I was listening to that album a lot during my first serious relationship so listening to it now puts me in kind of a weird mood.

Even going by the standard that a good actual Trek movie should rightfully rank over Galaxy Quest, there aren't six good actual Trek movies.

Upon rewatching that movie as an adult, I realized that the big problem with it is that Dark Helmet isn't in every scene. The best part of that movie is everything Rick Moranis does and says and "we ain't found shit!", with honorable mention for how gross the Pizza the Hutt design is.

I think in this context it means "white".

Follow-up question: who listens to the radio?

Isn't the Lt. Gov. of Texas even more of a wingnut than the Governor?

"Game-changing" is promotional language.

Mushrooms are one of the best foods in the world, and people who can't appreciate them are living worse lives than they otherwise could.

Whoever they hired to do their social media is a genius. Up there with the Sonic the Hedgehog account.

This makes me realize that the only Venom movie I'm interested in is one that's just extremely horny. Have Brock be naked half the time and really lean hard on the "symbiote amplifies Brock's base impulses" bit. Make him a Byronic hero. That would be completely batshit but I would watch it.