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Welcome back to AVQ&A (Gameological edition), where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with games, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d like us and the readers to answer? Email us at avcqa@theonion.com.

This installment’s question comes from A.V. Club contributor Zack Handlen:

Every time I turn on my PlayStation 4, I see my unfinished copy of The Last Of Us. I know I should play it, but it never feels like I have enough time or I’m in the right mood. At this point, it’s been so long that I’ve forgotten how the controls work, and I’d probably have to start from the beginning, which makes ...

I Love Lucy served as a cautionary tale of humanity’s capacity for sin—the pride, the avarice, and the envy that could cause an ordinary housewife to chase a showbiz career at the expense of her marriage, with the denial of those selfish dreams transforming her into a wrathful, wailing banshee. It’s a vision of a waking hell that still haunts generations of people, and particularly those who live in Lucille Ball’s hometown of Celoron, New York, where an artist has captured it all in one horrifying statue. And it’s a nightmare from which they’re now begging to be freed.

As reported by Yahoo News, local residents have gathered around a Facebook page called “We Love Lucy! Get Rid of This Statue” to complain about the work from artist Dave Poulin, who sculpted Ball in a scene from the classic “Vitameatavegamin” bit. That episode found ...

In entertainment, an awful lot of stuff happens behind closed doors, from canceling TV shows to organizing music festival lineups. While the public sees the end product on TVs, movie screens, paper, or radio dials, they don’t see what it took to get there. In Expert Witness, The A.V. Club talks to industry insiders about the actual business of entertainment in hopes of shedding some light on how the pop-culture sausage gets made.

Held annually throughout the ’80s and ’90s and subject to insane amounts of frothing rapture from kids everywhere, the Nickelodeon Super Toy Run gave one lucky winner five minutes to run rampant over a toy store. Whatever they took home, they kept, and that was that. It was a commercial-hungry kid’s dream come true, and a great bit of brand synergy between Nickelodeon, Kay Bee Toy Stores (now KB Toys), and Toys“R”Us ...

McDonald’s is planning a targeted roll-out of all-day breakfast menus, according to a new report from CNBC. Within the next couple of months, testing will begin to measure the profitability of allowing consumers to toss back a Sausage Egg McMuffin at seven in the evening.

As William Foster famously discovered, rules about when breakfast can be ordered tend to be fixed. While McDonald’s has historically argued that kitchen space limitations (and potentially the wrath of God) prevent it from serving all-day breakfast, Janney Capital Markets is quick to point out the obvious benefits for their client. Janney notes, “We believe customers generally want to see McDonald’s offer breakfast items all day.” Of course, that may just be another way of saying that customers generally want to get meat served in a flaky croissant, rather than a damp, forlorn hamburger bun.

The plan comes as McDonald’s faces ...

The success of Jane The Virgin has temporarily delayed The CW’s transformation into a network that’s all about superheroes and undead teenagers, but it’s cramming so many masked vigilantes into its upcoming Arrow/Flash spinoff series that it’d need to have Jane The Virgin on every night in order to re-balance the scales. When the show—which we’d really like to start calling The Super Friends—was announced, we knew that Brandon Routh’s Ray Palmer, Victor Garber’s half of Firestorm, Wentworth Miller’s Captain Cold, and Caity Lotz’s (presumably) Black Canary would be joining it, and then The CW added Dominic Purcell’s Heat Wave for good measure.

Now, according to a pair of reports from Deadline, we can add two more heroes to the roster: Hawkgirl and Rip Hunter. The former will be played by relative newcomer Ciara Renée, who probably ...

In the Simpsons episode “A Milhouse Divided,” Milhouse’s soon-to-be-divorced dad Kirk Van Houten draws a blob during a game of Pictionary and then melts down when his long-suffering wife, Luann, can’t recognize that the drawing represents “dignity.” One astute Simpsons scholar noticed that the album cover for Cali punk band Ceremony’s new album, The L-Shaped Man, bears a striking resemblance to said scribble. Fans then took things one step further and paired “Can I Borrow A Feeling?”—Van Houten’s ill-fated, lovesick attempt at re-wooing Luann—with Ceremony songs. Not surprisingly, the results are a marked improvement, obliterating the schmaltz of “Feeling?” in an explosion of hellfire hardcore aggression. Listen to one of these mashups below.