They stopped doing it as much in the second and third seasons. I think that SNL skit with Andy Samberg as the 12 year old boy who thought up putting naked ladies into every scene was the tipping point.

They were calling that prostitute the Exposition Whore by the end of the season.

I think Scott Lynch should sue since that whole "let's all be actors and make fun of theater" bit is the basis of Republic of Thieves.

That's like the best bad review ever. I would pay you money to review my books in that way.

I think that the murder of a minor character puts it at least at a B+ with the whole "we're going to do a play based on a certain family with a couple of incestuous twins and a creepy midget brother" aspect to put it to at least an A-

Even better. The chapter starts out "Mercy was going to get raped and killed that night" - so yeah…that's fun. (actually the rest of the chapter is hilarious since it's basically Arya Stark being an actress who is starring in a play that is based on the shenigans happening in King's Landing - which includes a midget…

All dialogue will be stolen from Birth of a Nation.

So you don't get the cool TARDIS

Not necessarily. There are many opinions on the pants/dresses debate within Orthodox Judaism. She probably takes the most rightwing position because it makes her popular with the O-Jews.

Europeans don't need to come up with innovative solutions to curtail pesticides and grow crops in less fertile land so they freak out about the ways that people in developing nations might be getting screwed over by Monsanto - not realizing that their anti-GMO bullshit is what is leading to the kinds of bans on the…

A PhD in one field makes you think that you're an expert in every scientific field. With sad results.

You know all those jokes about Jewish mothers smothering their kids and never giving them any independence whatsoever.

Maybe to vaccinate her kids. She seems to have neglected that.

Well then watch something else. Two Broke Girls is on.

I write term papers for lazy college students

The state of MFA produced American fiction is bleak. But it's always been bleak. Have you read the shit that comes out of MFA programs. It's all about Daddy didn't Hug Me and it's so hard to be white and privileged.

The movie is not always better. For example, King David and the Spiders from Mars is totally better as a book.

So the cultural elite are wringing their hands and crying about their irrelevance. As they've been doing since Chaucer started vulgarizing the art form. Feh.

Considering that it's competing with teh "you're brilliant/you're brilliant/no you're brilliant" 4th season and the Doctor Who=Tinkerbell 3rd seasons, that's very faint praise indeed.

Wait. I thought that AV Club was fighting with Cracked today.