YOU JUST MADE AN ENEMY FOR LIFE.

Regular-Sized Rudy is probably my favorite tertiary kid that was introduced to the show so far, he was really funny and positive and not even slightly annoying. He was a good addition to the Bob-Louise dynamic without being a blank slate.

I laughed at a lot of the jokes and visual gags, but this episode seemed too loose even for Adventure Time. I know the show kind of rides a pendulum between narrative and insanity, but this was almost incoherent at times.

It was a ridiculous episode from a plotting standpoint and nothing near grounded, but from a character standpoint it's one of the best post-classic Simpsons episodes there is. Homer is lightyears away from being an asshole.

And unlike Bobby Hill, her voice doesn't make me want to change the channel.

Exactly. As a highly conflicted nine year old in that moment, she doesn't have a lot of outlets for that kind of emotion.

I laughed my ass off the entire episode. It was really, REALLY fucking funny.

Depends what kind of legs the show has. They need to age the characters when they hit the limit on great stories for that age bracket. Keep it gradual, keep the new situations coming. Just depends how fast they run out of ideas.

I think the BDSM angle would be pushing a bias onto a reading of the show just as much as the playground thing, especially since the focus in question is nine years old. The simplest explanation is Louise's conflict at liking a boy while hating the idea of liking a boy. She wants to be close to him, to touch him, but…

Bob's Burgers is like my media cornerstone now. It finally filled that Simpsons-shaped hole in my heart that I didn't even know was there. And I still watch the Simpsons. I would think 'Oh, sure, the new episodes aren't as consistently great and I really abhor how hateful the character assassination becomes, but it's…

Oooh, Hemlock Grove!

As a guy who is currently delivering pizza, I was feeling that phone call. I'm so fucking sick of people trying to give me a hundred dollar bill for a twenty-eight dollar order.

Agreed. I'll go get some needles.

Maybe he is a low-level hemophiliac of some kind, then, though I kind of doubt it. It's better that they not state it if that's the case, though. Most people hear 'hemophiliac' and think Alexei Romanov.

True hemophilia would result in internal bleeding, along with some other nasty stuff. Just being a bleeder isn't necessarily indicative of the disease, I used to have nosebleeds for up to thirty minutes and I'm not a hemophiliac. The point was more that if Bob was literally a hemophiliac, Jairo would have hospitalized…

The episode never actually states that Bob is a hemophiliac. That's important because it would be a major, life-threatening limitation to the character and I think at this point in the show he'd probably already be dead, actually, given the physical abuse he's survived. He's just a little on the low side in peletlats.

I know these similes are hilarious and so on, but I am seriously experiencing some sort of intellectual crisis as a writer after reading them. Surely the author of the book and the script writers speak English as a second language? Surely? SURELY?!

Way late to this party but I actually just got this 7" in the mail tonight. Probably going to frame it, they're my favorite band.

The chicken soup was the joke. It's just the absurd endpoint of the idea that chicken soup is something you eat when you're sick and it makes you better, somehow.

Sure, why not?