"This is how freemium games work" was basically this season's "this is what Scientologists actually believe".

One of my friends is a pretty well-off doctor, the kind who has credit cards with 5-digit lines of credit. His card was on his son's account and the son went nuts with Clash of Clans when he was out of school over the summer. By the time my friend realized what was going on the tab was $26k and change.

I don't know. There's a difference between a shitty game you only buy once and a freemium game that is specifically designed to get you to continue to spend money on it over and over.

Well, this episode proves it; Trey Parker & Matt Stone are more ethical than Matt Groening or Seth MacFarlane. They could have made millions licensing a South Park freemium game, but instead they went into explicit detail about how shitty the games are and how they exploit people.

$26,000 may sound like a lot to spend on freemium purchases, but I've seen a kid do it. Seriously these games are the worst.

Seriously, Wonder Woman is a terrible superhero. She's the purest example of a merchandise character, existing solely to sell shirts and cups and halloween costumes with the double-W icon screen printed over them. Can anyone here give even the broadest details of a single Wonder Woman story? There's no core to the…

Also, let's not forget that Cersei explicitly blames Tyrion for the death of her mother, since she died giving birth to him.

Also, JLD performing as an semi-awkward politician reading from cue cards during the sketch was pitch-perfect.

Great directing - Check
Lots of fun character pairings - Check
Not too much with the kids - Check
Natalie Morales - Check
Phyllis Smith - Bonus!

Apparently MGH is playing the mom in 50 Shades of Grey. I have a feeling anyone who sees that movie will have a very different view of her character here afterwards.

You're assuming that person was a lesbian?

Morales was legitimately great in Middleman and picked up a lot of fans through that. The other reason she's the most popular tertiary character on the show around these parts is that she's the character that's meant to appeal to our slice of the demographic pie.

As much as we hate to admit it, we're hipsters here. We flock to our own kind.

Okay, I am probationally taking back what I said a few episodes ago about how the show's flat direction was hurting it. The direction was legitimately good this episode, and actually approaching great in the b-plot. I hope they continue this trend for the rest of the season and beyond.

No one's mentioned Ravage 2099 yet. Maybe I really was the only person who bought that title. It went through some really, really weird phases before dying a merciful death.

I remember that Doom 2099 got really good when Warren Ellis started writing for it. I also remember getting really frustrated with the Ashley Wood's art for Ghost Rider 2099 (love his stuff in other contexts, but I wasn't old enough to appreciate it and the art itself was obviously rushed).

Okay, now I'm both really tempted and kinda scared to go looking back at the highly-publicized, eventually-killed Marvel offshoot that completely captured my imagination at 14: Marvel 2099.

The gag in that pharmacy scene needed a walker to get around, it was so old.

So far this is my favorite episode of the show, possibly because this is the best they've done with Natalie Morales's character so far. The gum review thing was okay, but I couldn't help but compare it unfavorably to the Community bit with Leonard's chip reviews.

They always rise to the occasion.