weirdly enough my wife and i first bonded over our mutual interest in this show. so sleazy, so tawdry.

It's a shame Julius Carry is no longer with us, because I'd love to see what they could've come up with for him.

It felt like we'd suddenly changed channels to Sleepy Hollow, down to the really cute black lady cop's older white guy partner being dispatched by the supernatural threat and nobody believing her about what's going on.

There's a weird reference to Evil Dead in the closing credits of the show - I didn't catch it entirely, but it thanks a bunch of people for their role in The Evil Dead The Ultimate Experience in Grueling Horror (or whatever the full title of the first movie was).

I would love this show to go that inside-baseball with things. Ash visits the bombed-out apocalypse future! Ash gets sucked back to the wild west and is mistaken for a cowboy that passed through a while back!

yes.

Favorite part of Who Wants to be a Superhero - didn't it turn out the whole show was rigged, even by reality show standards? Like, half the cast were ringers supplied by the network or something?

My So Called Life smut fic. Yep.

Oh, come on. You know they don't recognize that pagan ritual! They have a Holy-ween Festival where you come dressed as your favorite Bible character (NO SATANS OR MARY MAGDALENE PLEASE)

OH GODDAMNIT NO

Oh fuck, the bit where…. Tunnel Rat? runs into a cave, but the cave is actually a giant fucking slug that swallows him, so he BLOWS HIS WAY OUT THROUGH IT'S SIDE and runs towards the camera laughing hysterically.

If you think about it as a bunch of superheroes and super villains who happen to work for the military, it makes more sense. Straight up silver/Bronze Age comic book business.

There IS a literal "fourth wall" - at one point Grover builds a brick wall on the page so you won't turn it.

Missing the GIJoe episode where the Joes visit the alternative timeline where Cobra won… and find their own corpses in a mass grave.

You have a Transformer as your user icon.

I genuinely love these "AVClub family members interview famous people" bits, because they feel really organic in a way - just shooting the shit. (I think it's the fact that they're not scared to interrupt or talk over the subject, which is shockingly refreshing in this context - and a little rude.)

aay my name lmao

The last year or so of Lynyrd Skynyrd - everything from Stevie Gaines joining the band to the plane taking off for Baton Rouge.

It's all Frankenstein, dude. Our children/creations rise up against us.

James Baldwin