I mean, I like Midwestern proto-grunge as much as any other GenXer who went to UW-Madison, but this is taking Killdozer fandom a bit too far.

Tom Brokaw was tragically eaten by wolves today.

I shot the clerk

The present-day trilogy starting with Pattern Recognition might be a good idea for an adaptation in some respects, since you could do it on a much smaller budget. The downside would be that some of the plot points are very tied up in bleeding-edge technology of the time . . . and the first of those books came out…

I liked him, and everyone else really, in the show Happy Endings.

So let me get this straight: a dude who actually has real experience living under food stamps and by virtue of that fact is already more qualified to talk about it than myself (and i’m assuming most ppl reading this article who have not lived on foodstamps) doesnt actually have that right because....rich white men…

Probably stuff he’d already signed on and been contracted to do. If you check his IMDB, it doesn’t seem like he’s got too much lined up that hasn’t already been started.

You just aced the competition with this comment.

I see you’ve got no love for tennis movies.

If you said that this was good for a tennis movie, it might serve as a backhanded compliment

I can find no fault with this comment.

I loved the bit where Bjorn, just about to serve, looks McEnroe straight in the eye and says ‘you will be assimilated; resistance is futile’

Tennis movies are terrible anyway. Too much back and forth.

See, this is the part of the argument I don’t understand. I don’t buy that he was bullied *because* of Apu, rather the bullying took the *form* of Apu because that was the only popular Indian character the children would be familiar with. It seems like the Simpsons are getting blamed for being one of the first…

The twist I admit didn’t see coming but doesn’t make much sense in the context. It atleast tried to make a coherent plot and have some interesting drama to it all. I mean, the whole point of calling it ‘Saw’ after the first one is lost as nobody uses a saw again for some time....

As a Jewish person, if a satirical show like The Simpsons made a Jewish finance character I wouldn’t be automatically offended (hell, didn’t Family Guy actually do that with an ultra-stereotypical accountant character? I’m not a big Family Guy fan, but I usually found that character funny enough). I mean, The Simpsons…

It took it that you were implying that I deliberately can’t or won’t recognize differences between character archetypes and racial stereotypes.

Is Apu being a price-gouger an Indian stereotype though? I thought it was more of a joke at the expense of 7/11's ridiculous prices as an organization rather than Apu in particular.

Yeah, I’m not sure if this is a poorly-written review, or if the documentary itself glosses over those aspects.

“little thought has been given to the Apu character beyond the accent, that Apu is his ethnicity (and a blatantly distorted one at that) and that’s it.”