I like the mixing of designs. The Sea Dragon is definitely Japanese in spirit. (And, am I imagining it, or is there an allusion to "Spirited Away" in there?)

Fred Astaire was a Republican, but I can't get him as either conservative or liberal. Or anything other than cool.

Pity. The stuff is out of copyright, and it's still funny.

The A. V. Club!

The agony of Stephen Leacock!

Oh, yeah!

As if!

Not *uninterested*, but *disinterested*.

I'm sorry if I gave that impression. I was reacting to your own intelligent thought.

Jack's speech makes good psychological sense, actually. He has lost much of the good of his Samurai culture. For fifty-some years he has had to work on the gut-level. He has responded to the fight-or-flight tension of his daily action by cutting off any reflective, abstract thought. Even his hallucinations in these…

Bad animation — quicker than the human eye.

And, for the same reason, Sam on Quantum Leap.

"Gunter! Who told you you could fly?"

Neverwhere!

I used to. Headaches with Ramen noodles, headaches with cheese (including the cheeses I loved the most), headaches with pizza and whole canned chicken. They were migraine headaches, too, with all (we kept a clear path to the bathroom) its attendant (I had long, painful nights, with sleep and bizarre dreams alternating…

Gain control of the government!
Executive branch!
Military branch!
Foreign affairs!
Influence policy!

I'm glad he isn't witless.

Jennifershaw = commentator show synergy.

I think Gene won the episode. He had the best lines.

No, that was Rush Limbaugh.