One is a pop culture institution I used to love and cherish, especially for the in-jokes, but seemingly soured in a matter of months and the other one is...

They already did the “Manacek” type character better in the Season 13 episode, “The Lastest Gun in the West”, and it was done as a throw away joke. That episode featured Dennis Weaver as aging Western star Buck McCoy, whom Bart befriends. At one point he mentions spending the 70's shooting hippies on TV as…

Just imagine the uproar if hair salons with white clientelle were fined the same way for “mishandling toxic waste”, the bleach used to dye hair.

Because people who act like this usually grew up in households were “I wouldn’t do this if you would just act like you got some sense!” is shouted at them on the regular followed by daily/multiple beatings and so they grow up thinking that violence = love and the person they’re beating on is the one at fault for…

To me, this is the most unsettling part:

Absolutely. Even if the girlfriend was too scared to testify or did not want to for some reason (the reason many of these cases do not proceed), they have a freakin’ video! That’s all the evidence they should need to go to trial and give him some real punishment.

Better wording than mine. I want to be clear: I don’t think she provoked him, but she maybe was thinking she did because that’s part of being victimized.

Maybe not so much nonchalance but fear. Fear is what I see. She’s trying to go on like things are okay to keep from provoking him again.

The most unsettling part is how quickly he turns to assisting her. Picking up her purse, attempting to put her glasses back on. It’s that sort of, “I’m so nice, why do you make me do this?” behavior. The power dynamic of abusers is absolutely chilling.

Segregation was pretty bad in Memphis. It wasn’t as violent as what was going on in Birmingham but if you look up things like the Sanitation Workers strike and MLK’s assassination in Memphis you get a good picture about how bad things were.

I am pretty sure that Elvis lived to old age, and was in a retirement home with black JFK

I would have loved it if Axl sang a few lines from Paradise City. Where the grass is green and the rats are pretty.

That, Trombone Hero, “Axl” becoming “Josh Groban”, the idea of “Sweet Child O’ Mine” as a eulogy, “When I grieve, I drink”, a ghost mouse, and everyone waiting for Sarah to give them a more dramatic send-off to the mission . . . all pure gold. The episode was both incredibly stupid and utterly great at the same time.

The show for the most part in this episode did avoid race issues, perhaps wrongly, though I think it has been very sensitive to them in the past, especially with Jax (Jax was also particularly offended by having to deal with Earth-X Nazis).

God, I like your review better. I don’t know what is up Oliver’s butt this week, but this episode is a B+ at the WORST!

I doubt anyone noticed them kissing; all eyes were probably on the guy banishing ghosts with his magic guitar.

Wally and Zari calling back to Ms. Pac-Man when fighting the ghosts was also a great touch.

The use of Elvis’s “Amazing Grace” and that being the song that gave Nate and Amaya their musical moment was perfect, and actually got me in the feels, the ridiculousness with the ghosts notwithstanding

God i love this show. This was a goofy but fun episode.