In all honesty, I think Wiig's tenure on SNL has been more Kattan than Poehler: plenty of annoying, overplayed characters. For whatever reason (maybe because I never really liked any of her regular characters) I don't see Wiig making a return to television like Poehler. But I think Wiig's future career will probably…

In all honesty, I think Wiig's tenure on SNL has been more Kattan than Poehler: plenty of annoying, overplayed characters. For whatever reason (maybe because I never really liked any of her regular characters) I don't see Wiig making a return to television like Poehler. But I think Wiig's future career will probably…

I know the music usually doesn't get a mention unless it was really terrible, but with THREE performances by Jagger it seems worth mentioning. Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, or Jeff Beck: who was best? No one was really terrible, I guess.

I know the music usually doesn't get a mention unless it was really terrible, but with THREE performances by Jagger it seems worth mentioning. Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, or Jeff Beck: who was best? No one was really terrible, I guess.

I wonder how it went down when they were writing and planning this episode

I wonder how it went down when they were writing and planning this episode

I'd give Duncan MVP

I'd give Duncan MVP

He should have had Oi Polloi on

He should have had Oi Polloi on

Nuts n' Gum: Together At Last!

Nuts n' Gum: Together At Last!

Ponyo is a 3 year old Liz Lemon

Can't win 'em all

I see what you're saying. Taken as an artistic medium, asking what the best Gateway is for anime is like as what the best Gateway is for television—there is just so much varity that it's incomprehensible to condense in that way. I still say, though, that for most of the American audience (I won't go so broad as to say…

No, not as a gateway, but I think we can agree that they deserve some mention. Particularlly if Akira or GITS would make poor gateways, but maybe good Nest Steps, then that might be something to include, especially since I think a fair number of people first got interested in anime after seeing the Matrix, and…

May I just say; I really fucking love it that the banner ad at the bottom of the page right now is for TRUESWORDS.COM

Certainly the score played a huge part in making Mononoke feel so epic.

What I do have are a very particular set of skills—and they all involve water

You left out all the moments when (not necessarily in Ghibli movies, but in anime in general) the characters PROCLAIM WHO THEY ARE, WHAT THEY ARE DOING, AND WHAT THEIR MOTIVATIONS ARE!!!