I've laughed harder at some individual Sanz moments than I have at anything else in show history - I love his penchant for bizarre non sequiturs and general weirdness.

The trailers make it look like one of the worst non-Sandler movies in years - hacky, trite, Streep characterized mostly by her bad hair. I've been shocked to see it getting pretty decent reviews in a lot of places.

It also got a huge burst of popularity by being played every weekend in about 60% of the bars in the country for the past 20 years.

My commute lasts about a half hour, so usually it takes a round trip to finish a podcast episode. I usually know a podcast isn't working for me when I don't even bother to listen to the rest on my trip home. I've started 3 Lapkus episodes but never finished one. I thought even the one with PFT was pretty boring and…

Until proven otherwise, I'll just assume Book Fight came in 11th place in the podcast voting.

I'm a big fan of the podcast but have a similar reaction to the show, even though I've tried several times to get into it. It's not like they're wildly different from one another, but tonally the show seems different enough that it just doesn't make me laugh at all.

So anyway, high-five to 25% of the AV Club for managing to discuss a book without first commenting on whether the author gives you a boner.

Just stopping by to give a standing ovation to the phrase "a real turducken of a teen movie."

Hey, thanks for listening! And saying nice stuff about the show. I felt great about the episode with Leslie too (probably a top 5 episode by us, I think) but one thing I've learned is everyone who listens gets something different out of the show. Some of my least favorite episodes are ones that people seem to really…

Definitely. It's a little uneven, but it also includes him at his best. Here's one of my favorites of his short stories:

I didn't mean for my first line to sound so pedantic; better phrasing would have been something like, "I don't think it's that farfetched/outlandish for ElDan to say he doesn't like Wompler."

I don't think it's true that everybody loves that character. She's very popular, but every time she shows up, there's a small group of people who note that they don't care for her. Like Arran (above), I skip Wompler episodes entirely; the last one I tried listening to seemed like 9 hours of convoluted backstory and…

I see now that about 50 people beat me to this point. Sorry for cluttering up the page with redundant comments.

That disclaimer, while obviously well-intentioned, is really frustrating. You don't need to append a letter justifying why you're allowed to discuss a prominent aspect of a movie. Sexuality, and discussion of it, doesn't belong to any one group. You want to discuss the topic — just own it. Do it respectfully and with…

it means, essentially, that he seems smart but not quite as smart as he thinks he is, and he's much more interested in lecturing people and condescending to them than he is in anything resembling dialogue. He's so full of righteous anger that he doesn't realize how shallow most of his philosophies are.

I guess? I don't see why my response would make you angry or defensive.

To me, he sometimes seems a little like a college sophomore who just took his first Philosophy class.

I've banged this drum in the past, but I think they've made a good effort to try to offer more variety this year.

only cigarettes and apple pies.

I agree, but I'm thinking especially of some family members, especially older ones, who still get confused and uncomfortable when you take them to a burrito place. "I just want a cheeseburger. Do they have a cheeseburger?" Think of how many people with that mindset are on tour buses.