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The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club is an entertainment newspaper and website published by The Onion. It appears in the print editions of The Onion and online at www.avclub.com.
The Onion has had reviews since its earliest days. In the mid-'90s, under the stewardship of former editor Stephen Thompson, it became a philosophically aligned section of its own, dedicated to following entertainment culture down its various side and back roads.
The A.V. Club prints interviews with people who interest us, plus reviews of the latest films, music, books, DVDs, and video games. It also features probing investigations into whatever aspects of pop culture we feel like tackling—from movie-star tribute songs to dollar-store eats—and several regular columns. And in cities where The Onion has a print edition, readers will find recommendations about area events, plus other city-specific content, in the local edition of the paper. This content can also be accessed online, as can The A.V. Club's freewheeling staff blog.
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Besides the main content like reviews, essays, blog posts, and the like, the large and thriving comment section at avclub.com is crucial to the web site's success and appeal. However, with most articles on the front page accumulating hundreds of comments in a matter of hours, the comments can be daunting or intimidating to many new users. Below is a (far from complete) guide to the AV Club Comments Section.
Regular Posters
lexicondevil: A sophisticated, intelligent, and thoughtful poster. He has a penchant for lengthy essays about how a given subject (like a song, movie, or TV show) has had an effect on his personal life.
Preparation Heche: Can be counted on to always lighten up heated discussions with humorous comments marked by an extensive knowledge of pop culture and biting wit.
Jorge Von Salsa: Pretty much like Prep. Heche, but more prolific.
Joe11/Karatloz/This is what a man sounds like when he walks: A funny (but occasionally thin-skinned) commenter who became a poster child for the plague of commenter-impostors that menaced the site for so long. Other than his run-in with imitators, his primary contribution to the comments is his long-running (but now discontinued due to changes in the registration system) penchant for changing his name to reflect the content of the comment. For example, in a comment about delicious food, he may have posted as The DELICIOUS Joe11. It was this that made him a target for impostors, and subject to parody. He now continues to comment as Karatloz, his most recent known identity.
phel: The AV Club token female, phel is the target of much leering and sexual remarks in the male-dominated world of AV Club comments. She combats these affronts to her honor with razor-sharp wit and street-smarts to match. She is also known by her incredibly ability to recall the details of comment threads that most everyone else has long-forgotten. It is this ability that makes her an incredible asset, in addition to her legendary breasts.
Lobsters/Lobsters1: This incorrigible curmudgeon is one of the most infamous of all AV Club scoundrels. He is known for an irreverent yet often right-of-center viewpoint that focuses on issues of race and class. He is a complex man, though, with his love of Asian women and his tolerance for working under his, as he refers to him, "big black boss." He is also known for his off-kilter taste in music and film, the latter perhaps best illustrated in his refusal to admire any film directed by someone with the first name of "Sidney" or "Sydney." He is believed to be considerably older than most of the other AV Club commenters, which may account for his (as of this writing) extended absence from the boards - he is perhaps deceased. UPDATE: On Nov. 10, 2008, Lobsters 1 returned to the pages of the AV Club.
Danrimage: Kind of like lexicondevil, but British and it is believed that he probably gets laid more often.
ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER: Undoubtedly the most popular of the AV Club commenters, this hard-edged 19-year-old from Blue Ash, Ohio is known for his take-no-shit attitude and his all-caps shouting. His known attributes are a deep love for the Metal band Slayer, Blair's Death Rain potato chips, and any other film, song, or TV show that "OWNS YOUR ASS."
Pilgrim: Known for the unbelievable amount of posts he makes during a given day, his unwavering love for Boston sports and culture, and his semi-irreverant attitude in regards to most AV Club articles, Pilgrim has been a regular since 2007. He frequently uses horrible puns and "your mom" jokes.
Rev. Chauncey Grizzly: A very polarizing figure, The Rev. often incites anger and opposition on a various array of topics. Sometimes crass in his approach, the Rev. is also know to post intelligent arguments when pertaining to religion and politics. Known for playing Devil's Advocate much to the dismay of a section of posters who have taken to "run him off" much like the Joe11 imposter situation. Grizzly also has a long-standing fued with a few of the more sensitive posters from the "Beth Ditto is fat" threads that followed an article on the Gossip where a good deal of the AV Club members got their first lesson in selective censorship of the boards.
Trolls
The AV Club comments, like any public forum, has attracted its share of trolls over the years. Below is a partial list of the most infamous, and the most enduring.
Tinky: Perhaps the first commenter to blur the line between trolling and "performance art," this poster's comments consisted of intricate poetry (or "tinketry") that consisted of the words "tink," "tunk," "tonk," "tank," and several variations thereof. These poems were also distinguished by erratic capitalization and punctuation. He is mostly inactive these days, although it is rumored that he can be summoned by intoning his name three times in the AV Club comments. This tactic is most likely to be effective in The Hater or its offshoot, The Tolerability Index.
GLut.: An all-caps commenter who is alternately obsessed with being the first commenter on a given thread and a parody of such attention-seekers as ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER. He is generally sweet-natured and slow to anger, and is a little lacking in verbal intelligence.
M!zzundahstood: This troll/performance artist is an elaborate parody of a stereotypically ignorant teenage girl. She is known for her extensive use of instant messaging abbreviations, such as "ppl," "ur" and "lol."
Great American Patriot: This aptly-named commenter is a parody of all things conservative. He usually takes a gun-toting, highly xenophobic approach to life and the AV Club comments.
Wistus J. Pettifrog: This commenter invariably poses the question of which of a few people mentioned in a given article the AV Club commenters would rather make love to. He has been the source of much spirited debate.
Query Garcia: Another single-minded troll, this curious fellow is known to reply to declarative (and arguably pointless) comments with faux-clarifying questions, like "really? Is it?" and the like. He was recently killed off and replaced with his brother Questionford Garcia.
Rev. Chauncey/Chancy Grizzley/Grizzly. et al: An imposter situation much like that of Joe11, the "Fake Chaunceys" rarely employ little more than homoerotic and slightly racist banter to further their campaign to "run him off." A new tone of self-righteous indignation has recently empowered a few of the Fake Chaunceys to believe that their aim is justified and that they are more interesting, or the "only thing that's interesting" about the real Rev. Chauncey Grizzly. Fake Chaunceys often add "you suck at life" and/or "middle school" into each of their posts as an lame imitation of the real Rev.
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