I'm newly out of a relationship with a film major, about whom I have had far too few opportunities to talk shit since the relationship ended, and this seems like the place. So, may I?

This isn't a question for you, sketchesbyboze, as much as for the internet in general: can someone explain Walter White to me? "Breaking Bad" is pitched as, oh, gentle Mr. Chips type is terminally ill, has no choice but to turn to a life of crime to support his family, now watch his gradual descent! But I got through,…

Not being an asshole, genuinely curious: where have you *been* that you just saw The Godfather for the first time? Amish? 12? Again, that sounds like I'm being an asshole, but I don't mean it that way at all—-just seeing someone say "I just saw The Godfather for the first time" is like hearing someone say "You know…

I think he's dreaming at the end because the stilted diction of Iris's parents seems more like how Travis would imagine Iris's parents would talk than it seems like how anyone would talk. I hope that my opinion is the definitive answer you need.

I didn't know Barton Fink had won anything - good for it! I always thought it was critically unappreciated in its own time.

I agree: if this isn't the very least "light" movie ever made, it's up there.

I get where you're coming from, completely, but I don't think that scene was "unneeded" - it helps to underscore, among other things, how *inescapable* the bigotry and negativity and awfulness surrounding Travis is. He's under siege from this shit *all of the time*. (Sorry I said "shit"). I also don't think it…

Hey, what are the odds? I've just finished the series for the first time this week too (and followed along with Todd's writeups)!
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The one thing that jumped out at me most that I've never seen discussed by anyone was the end of "Long-Term Parking". So much of what happens on "The Sopranos" is a direct response…

Now I really want to see Meg White's tits, if any.

Cookie, it says she's 25, but from the sounds of her, I bet she's still in middle school.

Yeah, for serious about the "conservative" weirdo. Her problem seems totally reasonable…IF SHE'S 14. But this does not sound like an adult relationship.

I don't know if this is the official reason, but I've heard that it was about a., differentiating Current Ted from Future Ted (there are plenty of scenes where Saget's narration coexists with Radnor talking; it might get confusing if it was all the same voice), and b., getting one more semi-famous name into the cast,…

I've resigned myself to it never happening, but as I watch people here discuss what loose ends they want to see tied up as the show ends, it occurs to me: I would love nothing more than an official explanation of how Josh Radnor turns into Bob Saget.

I love that somebody downvoted this. "HOW DARE YOU. HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT DONNA HAS A RIGHT TO ENJOY SOMETHING I DON'T. WHEN I GET THROUGH WITH YOU, YOU'RE GOING TO NEED THAT…DENTAL PLAN."

Where's Donna going? :(

That comment was both funnier and more like HIMYM than anything from this week's episode.

Every week, I'm here to say, "So what if it didn't advance the…title? It was funny!" This week, I'm on team "So what if it revisited classic HIMYM mythology? It wasn't funny!" This episode didn't make me laugh once. I found the writing really limp—-can't think of a single joke that couldn't have come from a…

I wouldn't say I hate the episode—-just the particular line I quoted. It really feels to me like MacFarlane working out from "cripples are half-men" and then burying it in an attempt to be politically correct, and I think my reading is better borne out than yours by what the show has become. Which sounds more…

For me, the absolute low point of Family Guy was in the first season when they tried far too hard to wrap their meanness in a coating of faux-"heart". A good example is when Peter gives the little speech about how his other neighbours haven't been half the man Joe is, and because Joe is half a man already, that splits…

What up, Dikachu!