Seriously, if someone writes that many words about this show and "Patrick" and "Nagel" aren't two of them, they have officially entirely missed the point.

Yeah, I assumed that guy was one of Travis and Madison's neighbors, making it weird they didn't chat, but he could have been a squatter who hunkered down in an abandoned house for the night, and Travis didn't want to get involved in the whole situation. Or the guy could be a neighbor that Travis knows and doesn't get…

That could explain why Travis didn't talk to the guy, if he was someone Travis had never seen before, meaning he was, presumably, just squatting in a house whose actual owner was dead or had fled town.

I tend to be pretty forgiving of little details in TV shows that are improbable but still entirely possible (I'm one of the few people who has no problem with Travis and Madison not calling the police after going to the junkie church - seems like it would just get junkie son thrown in jail) so when even I immediately…

I got the impression from the pilot that he doesn't actually live there, but I could be wrong. Didn't his mother say something about having not heard from him in weeks when she got the call that he was in the hospital? He should be borrowing some of Travis's clothes, which could be equally hilarious.

Off the top of my head, my favorites would probably be
1. East/West bowl
2. Inner City Wizard School
3. Ultimate Fighting Match Preview

I always thought of myself as more of a Funshine Bear.

This was just on Comedy Central the other day (and I'd barely remember any of the details if I hadn't just seen it - the only part I can consistently remember is the poker tournament part, and I always forget that wasn't a standalone episode) and watching it, it occurred to me that the problem with the Eco-Feministas…

If I can be very shallow for a moment, one thing I did appreciate about this show was that, of all the reality* shows that were ostensibly about nerd culture but obviously went out of their way to cast the most attractive people they could get, this was perhaps the only one that actually managed to get people that…

I haven't read past the point that the show's gotten up to, but I'd bet that, if anything, they probably start using the word less in the issues that have come out since the show started production. My guess is that Kirkman not wanting to use the word on the show indicates that, if he had it do over again, he'd never…

Then we'd just have to find better ways to injure it. You really want to put in that kind of effort?

The reviewers don't take screen caps, they just use the whatever promotional images are available - generally stuff provided by the network or taken from the network's website, I believe - so it's pretty common for the only image available to be one from the previous episode.

I don't know, but I'm positive that if you had an archive of all AV Club comments ever, you could pinpoint the exact moment.

Look at is as a "glass half full" thing.

While I agree that they'll never say it on the show, they actually could get away with it by just having someone compare the mindless, shambling walkers to the original Haitian zombie concept (which is how modern movie zombies got the name in the first place). Basically, take advantage of the fact that the word exists…

Why can't Batman's enemies figure out his secret identity? Just pick up a comic book. They mention it in, like, every issue.

The thing I think I miss most about the philosophy behind this style guide is the way each superhero used to have a very specific and relatively straightforward costume that artists were expected to replicate if they were going to draw that hero.

That's totally just the mock up one-sheet Clark made when he was learning how to use the Daily Planet editing software. He showed it to Lois to try to impress her and she was all "Are you making fun of me, Smallville?"

Possibly because this was the art style used in all of DC's merchandise at the time, when I look at these images, it doesn't look like a particular person's style or even a house style to me, it's just what those characters actually look like. Like the Platonic ideal of the Justice League of which all other…

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it wasn't fair game to point out stuff like that for entertainment value. Using my own analogies, it can be fun pointing out when Andrew Lincoln's accent slips or if the eye colors of the actors playing a character's parents would mean that character would have to be adopted or the…