"9/11 changed everything" is a common refrain in certain rightward shifts. Dennis Miller, Frank Miller, David Zucker, Dan Simmons…

God, how often does that happen when we decide to share our chosen geeky interests with people? I remember one of my friends, who'd never seen Buffy before, decided to sit in on a class at our college dedicated to Buffy. The episode he got was "Doublemeat Palace." It did not endear him to the show.

LANAAAAAAAAA!

All the queens in the opening number got showered with applause - save for Magnolia. She got that kind of awkward half-clap best reserved for when someone farts while giving a eulogy.

Well, there was that show on Bravo a few years back, Boy Meets Boy. However, in the tradition of all shitty reality TV, some of the guys were straight and competing for a cash prize for "tricking" the bachelor.

But in the end, we may find out that they just had a man's meat in their mouths. No, wait.

I remember an article that said the Pentagon actually had to call the writers' room to tell them to cut that shit out, as new cadets were getting the wrong ideas about standards for interrogation. I wonder if anyone showed up to basic with a hacksaw and a towel.

Are we talking about rainbow parties? Because I don't think that was ever in play, save for in the fevered imagination of Oprah Winfrey.

So, am I reading this correctly? The dark forces are introduced to the town because the sole black woman has fel witchcraft she uses to kill a baby? If so, I think this show found the one way it could to make the whole thing MORE tasteless.

And then there's the episode where Mr. Bighead, coulrophobe that he is, finds himself enjoying the life of a clown in secret. The end of the episode involves him "coming out" and the rest of the cast effectively sharing their fetishes.

There was a moment that happened to every child of my generation when they turned 13, where the sheer psychic weight of everything they had observed - particularly in health class - hit them like a falling anvil. Only then did they realize, in a state like satori, that Rocko's Modern Life was FILTHY.

Yeah, especially in the Nineties, when there was a strong spate of The Noble Dying AIDS Patient, the gay man who just sits in the background of the tale and provides a testament to all the straight people around him that Life Is Worth Living.

And for a movie from the late '00s (or whatever the hell we're calling that decade), it's just seeping in strange homophobia - not just from the sinister gay angle, but from a distinct lack of knowledge of how homosexuality works. So, the guy's trying to give his lover's head a body by killing a bunch of female…

You REALLY need to stop going to her.

Erogenous zoooooones…

I think she wanted to leave to spend more time with her husband. Another example might be Robia la Morte - I think Angelus was originally supposed to kill Oz, but La Morte had found Jesus and was feeling weird about working on a series with demons, so Jenny Calendar died instead.

Plus, I think there's something to be said about the way the killers on Hannibal use their victims. On that show, they're more often than not resources for gruesome art - the fact that the killers view them not as people, but as something else, draws attention to the dehumanization that's going on. Even killers who…

One thing the review skips over in "Evolution of the Daleks" that I've seen a number of other critics mention: when Dalek Sec announces his plan to make "human Daleks" to the Doctor, he shows off a whole suite of close to thousands of humans who've been abducted and brainwiped for this purpose. By Dalek Sec's account,…

And everyone who's watching knows that there is no way this is going to end well. From an in-text perspective, this looks like an example of the depthless compassion of humanity, somebody preaching to aliens in armor about how they can be kin. From an out-of-text perspective, that fucker was barbecue the second he…

What they're arguing is that this is a perpetuation of the same ideas that have clung around in culture since Not Without My Daughter and, before that, the "white slavery" tale - the idea of a dusky Other that can't wait to get their hands on our white (or at least coded white) women and stick them into bondage in a…