It's been a lot more than a few years.

I'm sure they made a decision. It's not like they forgot it existed last week when they were announcing what the next episode to be reviewed would be, and then forgot it existed again when it came time to write the review, and then continued to forget it existed.

The plan to skip ASAD was discussed a lot in the comments last week. I was surprised by the depth of hatred toward that episode and am baffled by the decision to skip it. The "Paint Your Wagon" section alone is better than any post-S10 season of The Simpsons. And the show has had so many wonderful musical moments—-the…

SPOILER: The first 200 pages of this book look like an episode of "Bubble Guppies" next to what comes next. There's an overlong, intensely repetitive section about a mentally ill woman who systemically abuses and destroys the spirit of the heroic, long-suffering male character. (Franzen makes sure to note that her…

The author is absolutely making all of the assumptions you list, and more. It's the most dehumanizing depiction of a character with a disability I've ever read in a Serious Literary Novel. And Franzen's depiction of the disabled character isn't in the top twenty most appalling things about this novel.

It's not one of my favourites, but l like it a lot. It's funny—-I consider Season 9 to still be part of the Golden Age. When examining it very critically, I can see where the writing's not as sharp as it once was and where the pacing is off—-"Hi, liar!" is a great example; it feels like a stand-in for a Ralph joke,…

I've always thought Frasier sang the theme song to "Frasier"—-like, that Kelsey Grammer was supposed to be in character as Frasier, singing a song about his job.

Liked for calling the character "Burn Notice".

Fucking Todd Solondz, man. To ElDan's comment about uncomfortable cringe stuff in comedies, I would add that now we've got Eli Roth-style torture porn filling the kind of cultural niche Todd Solondz filled in the '90s.

You know what role Aaron Eckhart was unexpectedly, ridiculously good in? The goofy, quasi-cuckolded boyfriend of Frasier's final girlfriend on "Frasier". Anyone who can play that *and* Chad is a national treasure.

1997 was such an innocent time. We didn't have M. Night Shyamalan ending every movie with a twist. We didn't have countless prestige dramas depicting Chad types who manipulate Howard types whilst pretending the Howard types are their partners. (But for saying "bitch" at the end of literally every sentence, Howard is…

When this came out, I was an impressionable kid of twelve or so, and the contemptuous "do we look like frat boys to you?" line from this scene landed with me exactly how Chad wanted it to land with the waitress—-no, of course they did not look like frat boys, they looked like grownups, like Corporate Titans! Watching…

Also, given said twist at the end, I think it's really weird that anyone considers Chad specifically "misogynist". The woman is collateral damage in this plan. He doesn't hate women specifically; if he could have pulled off his plan using a cheeseburger instead of a woman, he would have. Dude's just motherfucking (see…

Tolerated? It's encouraged.

If I had to pick a line of demarcation between "good Simpsons" and "bad Simpsons", it would definitely be Gil. He's okay here, but bringing him back, running him into the ground, randomly making him a lawyer when the plot calls for that, having nothing interesting or funny to do with him? Ugh.

Two mentions of Glengarry Glen Ross, and one of Gil being cribbed from Shelley Levine. I wonder if he went back and edited those in.

The world does need a new Manolo Blahnik. Our current one has dishonoured her legacy as Blossom by taking a stupid role on "The Big Bang Theory".

*woof woof woof*

TRAMAPOLINE! TRAMPOPOLINE!

That's right. They're better. #teamdennisperkins