"Remember, this firehose of justice is being unleashed in response to a few barely underinflated footballs"

oh, fair enough, so explanation 'wasn't paying enough attention' it is. thanks! Guess she just magically escaped off-camera or something?

Can someone explain the plotting on the Kara/Ward/Bobbi bit to me? Because it seems weird. Isn't May flying…someone else somewhere else at the time? Why does no-one notice two Mays flying different planes to different places? Was I just not paying enough attention or something? And how exactly did she escape in the…

y'know, instead of saying 'comically imagined' or 'comically formed' you could just say 'funny'.

it's just magnificent. I've been staring at it for two straight minutes.

I've no idea, I'm not one of the people who tracks such things, I just watch it. That was just how the dialogue struck me. The script for the first episode is credited to Joss and Jed and Maurissa Tancharoen, but that's the only episode he has an actual 'written by' credit for, according to IMDB.

Good point, and indeed he did.

also, you know, you crowdfund her albums, you get an album. seems a reasonable proposition. I'm not sure where pity fits into the picture.

Damn, that Sonic the Hedgehog gag was cold. And also hilarious. This hit me as the most Whedon-esque episode for a while, in fact I was checking the writing credits, but nope…

Why don't you just vote the protesting hippies into office? It'd save on duplication.

So…he wants to be allowed to talk about 'his truth' and blah blah, but he is happy to speak for how all gay people everywhere listen to music? Oooookay then.

Er. But the joke only works if it really is *everyone*, because the whole 'joke' is that the people were buying a record they already owned. Which is only true if you can be sure they already owned it. Which is only true if you can be sure they had an iTunes account. Which is only true if everyone has an iTunes…

Eh. My point is the joke's based on a faulty premise. I like my jokes with logical consistency, damnit.

"This, as anyone can see, is funny on a few different levels. First, Songs Of Innocence is
the album that U2 shoved onto everyone’s iTunes accounts without
asking, so these people found themselves in the ironic position of being
unable to buy an album that had already been given to them."

That sounds like the kind of thing only dweebs who get their faces smashed in with rocks say.

"Prom King Comedy. That’s what I call all this shit. You’ve let the
popular kids appropriate the very art form that helped you deal. Fuck."

That was actually the scene I was thinking of where it didn't work for me at all. When one person says it, OK, kinda corny but whatever, but when a whole room full of people start saying it, it was clearly meant to be chilling but I just started laughing…

Agent Guess Who's Coming To Dinner

On the other hand, "I want your pain" didn't play anywhere near as creepy as they clearly thought it did.

I'd upvote this, but I've outsourced my voting leverage to increase efficiency synergies.