Is your second sentence unrelated to your first, or are Sara Smile and She's Gone "the gritter songs"?

I felt guilty about coming into this comments section to make a reference to that Family Guy bit. Thanks for making me feel like a less terrible person, Whovian!

Bit of a deep cut, not really a part of the zeitgeist, but one movie that seems very '90s to me is "Higher Learning", with its Afterschool Special-style attempt to tackle every Issue of the Day. It's extremely of its time.

…A LITTLE BAY-BAY!

I'm also sick and also spent too much time trying to decipher this. I figured out fairly quickly what it meant and that there was an error, but couldn't come up with a pithy way to fix it. The best I could come up with was "What does your favorite movie for every year during which you have been alive say about you?",…

THIS THINGS I BELIEVE

This revelation that A.A. Dowd was born in 1984 (and the recent revelation in another article that at least one of the "A"s stands for a fairly common first name for boys born in 1984, by which his friends call him) is what really blows my mind, oldness-wise. "A.A. Dowd" sounds like an 85-year-old professor emeritus…

I'm with you on all parts of your post except for how Trump hate is a "white" thing and not a "decent human being" thing.

I love Elsbeth, I love Chandler, and I love Elsbeth fighting with Chandler.

In theory, Phil hating the dean while the dean shares his exact personality is an excellent joke. In practice, I didn't laugh. And while I generally don't care for sitcom plots being resolved via the revelation that one useless peripheral family member is actually the glue holding everything together, it was even more…

I'm with you a hundred percent, but I love the idea of posting that on this of all articles. To successfully remove him from office, they'd need, what, all Democratic members of the House and Senate, 24 House Republicans and seventeen Republican senators to vote for impeachment?

It actually heightened the storyline for me, because I was thinking, "Wow, Kresteva is in bad shape after his son died! …oh, but he's still evil. That's…good?"

I'm always surprised when sitcom stars who are still airing every night in syndication are actually getting older in real life. So when I see a commercial with 48-year-old Jennifer Aniston in the middle of a Friends rerun starring 25-year-old Jennifer Aniston, it's weird to me, and I assumed that was the phenomenon…

I don't even really know what a "pathological liar" is in a clinical way, but colloquially, I've always thought it was about someone who couldn't control their lies. We've all got that one wacky uncle who tells tall tales—-you're going to a movie? Well, he *directed* that movie. Under a pseudonym, which is why his…

Having Mike Kresteva accept a job in the Trump administration (that's what he's doing, right? He's with the DOJ now?) is the cleverest pop-culture take on Trump I've seen so far.

I'm pretty left-wing, and I count its use of racial/sexist humour as being out of line with my views. It's like that one uncle everyone has who "hates every race equally", but then actually, his hating black people does a lot more damage on a macro level than his hating white people does.

That screencap of Ashley Tisdale is fucking terrifying, though. Maybe just a low-quality video or just a high-quality video paused at exactly the wrong moment, but she looks like something out of Too Many Cooks.

I'm ashamed that I still watch Family Guy, because its politics are abhorrent to me, but even at its worst, it has a unique and unusual comic sensibility. The most recent episode I watched had Brian trying to cure Stewie's nightmares by convincing him that monsters aren't scary, so he gets Chris to dress up as…

Ew, no.

Somebody brings it up every single week.