Rhys Darby was hilarious in What We Do in the Shadows, so I might check this out just to see him in it.

Monsters University isn't as sweet as the first, but the final act was awesome, and the "lesson" at the end was great.

The Incredibles 2 is coming in 2019.

The one sequel people were clamoring for is for The Incredibles, and that's not being released until 2019.

I knew they were phasing out cursive, but not typing. Is that because they figure kids will pick it up on their own?

Animorphs was so damn good, and it holds up. Some of the cultural references might not, but I could definitely see that being adapted into an amazing show on the right network.

Oddly, I read so much of the Boxcar Children, yet I can't remember a single plot from those books.

Definitely sounds like Lurleen McDaniel, as all her books were about the protagonist dying of some form of cancer, usually leukemia. Never picked those up.

Good point. The Alice series was the first to mention issues like menstruation, sex, and teenage suicide.

She did an interview with EW a few years ago revealing the fates of the girls, and it's not too surprising. Short version: Kristy is a successful entrepreneur/businesswoman, Mary Anne became a teacher, Claudia an artist, Stacy works on the business end of a fashion empire, and that was pretty much it. Dawn is still…

Little Sister was basically a Muppet Babies scenario, only with Karen and her elementary school adventures; starting a newspaper with her friends, loaning her doll and not getting it back, etc. Karen was essentially Kristy's younger doppelganger, which was why she was so annoying to me, since Kristy wasn't a favorite…

Nice roundtable, Marah. I keep forgetting that YA fiction has changed so much since I was kid. The fact that none of the characters in The Babysitters Club never age always irked me, so I'm glad to hear that AM had issues with that too. 15 years, and none of them go beyond 13. Even birthday stories were from them…

Same. That would be one of the least-likely groups I would consider to willingly read that series.

I remember Anastasia Krupnik, she was pretty funny. Other than BSC, I liked Phyllis Reynolds Naylor "Alice" series.

They won't get lost, but the Sim will lose energy trying to get from one room to another if the house is too big.

I don't think we'll ever see the Belchers "well-off;" their struggling restaurant is really what the show's premise is built on.

I enjoyed these episodes, but I do agree that they're relying on callbacks a lot. Several episodes this season heavily reference old episodes, and Bob and Louise's relationship in Glued is reminiscent of what we saw in Hawk & Chick.

I caught the retirement home bit, too. I was hoping we would see Zeke's grandma again.

Her sing-songy "Don't spend it all in one place" was creepily adorable.

I took it to mean that he was in a rush and didn't have a lot of time before…well, you know. This wasn't like his daily 4:30 meeting.