Guess I’d better not tell my brother that when people on the street give him the thumbs-up it’s because they think he’s a cool cat on his way to an open-mike poetry-reading, daddio.

– Eliminating the “Scary,” turning it into a soapy teen/child dramedy
– Turning one of the series’ most likeable characters, Hugo, into a foul-tempered, selfish jackass
– Turning Desmond Fishman from a bizarre yet self-sufficient and delightfully snarky minor character into a developmentally-delayed, fickle child-man needing Shelley to “wipe his pooey bum” while treating Amy, Ryan and her like dirt
– Ending the comic on the most tepid note possible (endless good-byes and hugging) and relaunching it as a public-school series (Bad Machinery) inexplicably focused on the dullest characters (Shauna and Lottie)
– Responding to criticism of this last drastic change by erasing his forums in a fit of pique, then offering a non-apology and saying that henceforth he only wants criticism from people he knows personally otherwise it doesn’t constitute “constructive” criticism

What a terrible, terrible shame.