No, but going over to somebody’s place, getting naked together, and exchanging oral sex does grant him some leeway to try his luck escalating further.

Massive is a bit hyperbolic on my part, but I would argue it’s one of the biggest original modern examples of internet fans semi-succesfully rallying to save their beloved show, and one that put a very prominent spotlight on the relationships between the fanbase, creators and network executives.

Also the guy who made…

Firefly is like both actually legitimately good and carries massive cultural significance, though.

I firmly believe anyone found actually defending* the new Ghostbusters movie just refuses to acknowledge they got suckered into a viral-marketing-induced culture war and bet all their chips on what later turned out to be…

AV Club still sticking up for Ghostbusters is the progressive version of the sunken cost fallacy.

Probably my fav show on TV right now, yet somehow I find it hard to disagree.

Get Out and Moonlight had no problem getting nominated and winning awards.

Saying it might be secret racism/snobbery really takes it for granted that Black Panther somehow deserves to be nominated for Best Picture. It really doesn’t.

That and the fact The Doctor stumbles onto wars or situations involving soldiers literally every other episode.

The Doctor’s anti-gun tone tends to usually be a lot more nuanced, though. The Doctor kills all the time. She doesn’t hate “guns”, she hates the gung-ho “violence is the first and only resort” mentality.

If you’re a level-headed, responsible gun wielder who finds themselves in a situation where your seemingly most…

If you’re talking about that ep 17. Winter Soldier reveal, nah the episodes before that were really that bad.

GoT actually had ambition from the get-go though - huge amounts of characters and lore be damned, they reallly went all in with it.

AoS was massively hyped up as basically an official TV extension of the MCU blockbusters, only for us to get an incredibly shitty ABC procedural instead.

I’m sure I’m missing out, but that first dozen episodes of the first season back in 2013 have pretty much irrevocably tainted the show for me.

IT SUBVERTED MY EXPECTATIONS

You’re not necessarily wrong to snark, but the point is that it wasn’t just those two at the time and there’s much forgotten context when people decide to bring it up against them. 2008 was a long long time ago, way before the modern internet social justice movement and the like.

Go find the AV Club comment section…

Not really.

The overwhelming majority of characters on South Park are shitty people and therefore acceptable targets, but there’s a whole handful of episodes where the characters care deeply about one thing or another and it’s genuinely played straight because they’re not being dicks about it.

This season alone we had…

But this is exactly the kind of thinking South Park posits against - you will never find a zealot who isn’t absolutely convinced that they’re the ones who are right and therefore deserve a pass for their zealotry. Is it somehow physically impossible for people to be absolutely fucking right about some things and not…

lol fuck off

Ayo what the hell, the only time Cartman is ever right about anything is when they purposely have some insane theory of his prove absolutely correct as a joke - like when he says all black people can play bass.

Other than that, picking the exact opposite of what Cartman does or says is pretty much the single most…

“That people who are being self-rightous about things are dumb and deserve to be mocked.”

Subtle difference.

I’m not sure that’s a fair take.

The reason Louis CK and South Park did those bits a decade ago (and wouldn’t do them nowadays) is not because they were just randomly feeling really edgy and offensive, but because the cultural zeitgeist at the time was very much focused on the discussion regarding the power of slurs…

Two incredinbly coked up hipsters and a hooker is also how I picture the AHS writing room.