Not sure if `parseInt` is needed... can't you just do `var comment_count = {{comment_count}}`? If you are going to use `parseInt` you should know it takes a second parameter, the radix of the number. It seems that at least chrome assumes base 10, but not all browsers do. If I do `parseInt('08')` in some browsers I get 0 as a response, since the leading 0 makes it think it's an octal number (if it were 0x it would assume hex). This should be `parseInt('{{comment_count}}', 10)` if the parseInt is necessary.