There obviously wasn’t an easy way for Amy to leave and have Jonah stick around, but Amy’s departure kind of left a bad taste in my mouth. He’s been living with her and raising her child with her for years at this point, but now she’s suddenly commitment-phobic? I’m not someone who was super invested in their…

At least she’s got that whole neuroscience to fall back on. I like her and I wish her well, but this show seems doomed. 

Regarding spelling, just like we have a ‘drive-thru’ and not a ‘drive-through’ so do new words in new contexts often bring new spellings, usually simplified ones. Ditto on ‘anti-vaxxers’ instead of ‘anti-vaccers’, ‘kool-aid’ instead of ‘cool-aid’ and so on. The word ‘cum’ has ‘becum’ pretty entrenched by now. The…

I also find it very baffling how someone like Cline can spend years of his life, writing two novels, on 1980s culture, a subject which he presumably is very interested in, yet has nothing to say about the ways in which popular culture interacts, influences, and is influenced by politics, economics, and society. He…

Nerd alert: ducks didn’t evolve into Ducks. There is a common ancestor between ducks and Ducks some number of hundreds of thousands or millions of years back. Some population of ancient duck split off from the rest due to environmental pressures and evolved intelligence, while other populations of ancient ducks…

Important note: we didn’t evolve from chimps anymore than Ducks evolved from ducks. The evolutionary truth is that closely related evolved species share a common ancestor (which is also true for the relationship between chicken and turkey or swan and duck). It changes nothing about the rest of the article, but it’s an…

“Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vacciiiiiine.

Toilets in Japan are on another level. Ever try one with a heated seat? I nearly fell asleep in an airport lounge on the can once.

I like his A Very Special Episode series more than Zack Morris is Trash. Maybe it’s because AVSE has so much variety. Every sitcom from 1981 - 2000 did a special episodes and they covered so many topics. Topics where the writers (though well meaning) were way out of their league, like the Mr. Belvedere episode where…

Well, it looks like I’m going to be the one whose insufferable at Thanksgiving this year, Dad.

That’s like saying, “they started writing sentences, why do you expect them to finish them?”  These are really interesting topics!  If you bring them up, maybe have something to say about them is what I’m saying.  Knowing that Caitlin and her dad wore MAGA hats one time tells me what exactly?  That’s not “background…

Curious to hear what EricMontreal thinks about this because I’m still not sure what this show is even trying to be. Kayla says that the kiss between Brittney and Caitlin is “organic” but I did not feel like any of the necessary building blocks were there to lead to that place. It felt completely arbitrary, but that’s…

The text crawl in the Sleepy Hollow sketch was remarkably tone deaf. Up until that point, it was a gross-out funny sketch about auto-fellatio, then the text scroll pops up and suggests they went on to spend 250 years continuously raping the horseman’s head.

Azhy Robertson, already an old pro at playing the son of divorcing parents

Hey, it’s Dan Decker!

I wouldn’t say it sucks, it’s a show that plays on Mondays when there’s really nothing else on. Maybe I’m just starved for shows that I accept it, but I wouldn’t call it bad. It’s. . .something.

I feel like seeing this in theaters, that was the big screaming/laughing/holy shit moment. I had multiple different people recall to me their experiences of having a packed theater just LOSE THEIR MINDS during that sequence. Definitely not the most pointed or satirical moment of that movie, but I’d argue that it’s a…

I will admit that COVID-imposed isolation and the state of the world in general are making me extra testy lately, but I just desperately want to punch Fraser in the mouth every time he’s on screen. I can’t remember the last time I felt this much visceral hatred/disdain for a character.

(Cake Boss)

Okay, hear me out. I know this is cold-hearted, but I think we should be pushing automation as hard as we can — in part because it removes jobs.