You may have a point about the vagueness of the phrase. But it's also one of those stock metaphors pop culture writers have been using forever, and a place called the AV Club is always going to eat that shit up.

Yeah, it is sad to lose the Cosby Show. I absolutely loved that show - a formative influence, that probably helped me at a young age understand the equality of all people, regardless of skin color. I even did a marathon of the early seasons just a couple of years ago with my wife, before I was aware of these…

Great job, Internet. You broke the Frinkiac. I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder.

I despise those statues of Santa kneeling, but I admit I bought one with a snowman at the manger. Mainly because it looks like he's trying to kidnap Baby Jesus.

That's a long way to go to try to get on the second stage at Ozzfest.

Yeah, but there's still the question of how they sold so many records in the first place.

But they sucked, too!

At least with Cliff Richard you can use the phrase, 'British Elvis' and it makes a little sense. Yeah, he doesn't live up to it, but I can kinda see how he might have filled a vacuum.

Hmm… By contrast, I was in 9th grade and couldn't figure out why the whole country seemed to have lost its shit over this particular story. Oh, I'm sure justice wasn't served. But we call that Tuesday in America.

Lord, Robbie Williams is one of those things I just don't get, even as a committed Anglophile. Late 90s it was like, you guys have Blur, Supergrass, Oasis, Pulp, the Verve, Radiohead… why are you , as a country, gonna get so hard behind this dick?

I wonder if Ilvermorny was segregated. Like, the house for black students always came in last place at the end of year until the 1960s.

id love to see a greatest hits performance from the cast of forgotten TV show Rags to Riches. Be worth it just to see Tisha Campbell blow out Wanda Jackson's "Lets Have a Party".

I saw that movie when I was about four and the sexuality scared the shit out of me. It lead me to believe all adults were sex-crazed maniacs.

Hahaha! I haven't heard this in 25 years… Why is my brain full of so much dumb shit? Can't remember the atomic weight of iron, but you bet your ass I remember Los Locos.

The thing about Red Hot Chili Peppers, though, is all the really horny girls I knew in junior high were really into them.

Wow. That's much better!

This is great news for all the people who get their punk rock news from CosmoGirl.

Yes. Attack him personally. That will prove he's not funny.

Yeah, I've always been surprised how the critical consensus for quite some time was that Morrissey basically sucked after the Smiths when he basically kept writing at about the same level for most of the decade. I think there's a weak album here or there (Kill Uncle) but if Viva Hate, Your Arsenal and Vauxhall and I…

Same kind of thing happened with The Cure, too. Maybe if you were doing coke and listening to Def Leppard in the 80s, it was hard to recognize the guys who did that song about drowning also did that song about the caterpillar girl and the one about the love cats.