That's a really good way to put it

Think I had the opposite experience as the author with these comps, especially the early Give Em The Boot installments. I may have bought them for the big names, but mostly I remember those CDs introducing me to bands I hadn't heard, some of whom I grew to love.

I think that's why I find her unlikeable. Morty and Summer both know they need help, but they're not going to get it because Beth takes Rick's lead in deciding therapy is a waste of time. At some point, the fact that your parents screwed you up isn't an excuse to screw up your own kids.

Yeah, Beth has definitely crossed over into "unlikable" territory. Fingers crossed it's going somewhere.

I don't know. The fact that Beth refuses to see Rick for what he is is one thing, but Beth more or less ignoring her children in the service of that has got me really disliking the character. When your kids are asking to go back to a therapist, that should be a big red flag.

This episode just further cements my belief that Beth is the worst.

The look on Summer's face as Rick and Beth both go immediately back to their standard settings of manipulation and enabling suggests that she might now be on the same page as Morty when it comes to Rick and his influence on their lives. This feels significant.

Did he cry? Tell me he cried.

Ah yes, that was up there with "Learn This One Sneaky Language Trick" and "Personal Trainers Hate This Guy" as click bait classics. Now it's all "Shady Things About (insert celebrity here) Everyone Just Ignores" or " Why Hollywood Won't Hire (someone who was in a movie maybe a year ago) Anymore".

Ah yes, the era when one could rhyme "nookie" with "cookie", then finish the chorus with "stick it up your (yeah!)" And become the biggest star in rock.

I view that whole era as kind of an embarrassing middle school picture. Yeah, maybe you smile when you come across it, but you don't go showing it to everyone.

Oh man, Boomer nostalgia was one (insufferable, inescapable) thing. Gen-X nostalgia was rapidly approaching that level. Have we already moved on to Millennial nostalgia?

Damn, my condolences. That's not something I'd wish on anyone.

I think it ties in with people's tendency to fetishize the past. The good old days were not as good as you remember them, and going backwards is never the best option.

There's a widespread mentality, and this is certainly not exclusive to Appalachia, of "If it was good enough for my father/grandfather, it's good enough for me."

What kills me about WVA (or really Appalachia as a whole) is that the only way politicians (and not necessarily just the GOP) know to appeal to them is to make a bunch of bullshit promises about coal.

No, industries produce things.

Kevin is Whenever
We can get together….

Oh, you've done it now….

That's the tentative script for Grown-Ups 3. Adam Sandler is Lenin, Rob Schneider is Stalin.