You would think he would try to prevent the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, since averting America's entry into the war without averting the war itself seems somewhat shortsighted at best.

That was the best little improv chess game I've ever encountered. Tompkins throws it back at Aukerman in his latest appearance, too.

Maybe they'll finally get to the bit where Jack reaches up and pulls down the credits

I was really hoping they'd go with Werner Herzog and his Ghost Protocol conception, a movie about etiquette for the unrestful dead

She has a right to be upset about getting her ass grabbed, whatever the logic behind it. I don't think it's anything you could press charges or file suit about, but someone grabs your junk without permission for any reason, you can get a little ticked off.

Cookie Monster conflates the first person accusative case with the first person nominative case, not the first person genitive- I think you're thinking of pirates.

Yeah, there's a little discomfort in the actual target of the really beautiful media circus satire- like, wasn't the most recent big sexual harassment thing at the time the Anita Hill hearings? That was not at all a manufactured case, as I recall.

Yeah, they made a man who shot an unarmed teenager look like a MONSTER! Those bastards

And the VHS distortion lines

I'd say an 80s guy who didn't change his act at all into the 90s- he's dressed very 80s, and the setup for the jokes is incredibly accurate for that kind of guy. It's one of those things like the SNL parody where they're just showing GE Smith's ridiculous guitar face that nails something so perfectly it never needs to…

I find that as you get past season 9, the relevance of the conversation on the commentary to the episode at hand gets lower and lower, until in the recent ones they're pretty much just chatting about whatever

I feel like if you assume what he's seeing is actually a function of psychosis, it's easy to read- he wants dollhouse people because he feels out of control and unable to interact with real people, he wants to be heroic and a protector so he invents a situation which requires his aid, and he wants a life without human…

I just hope he busts out 47 Ginger Headed Sailors at some point…

Yes?

i don't think that joke is trivializing rape or making fun of rape victims

I love that a.) mythological reading has practical applications in the DC world and b.) in my mind, Bats read the Odyssey before he knew this but nonetheless with the specific expectation that it would be prep material for a future encounter

Even that doesn't seem like it holds up- Zatanna is as key to her rescue as Bats, and Wonder Woman actively attempts to resist her captivity even as a pig. It doesn't fit the Damsel in Distress mode, where she sits helplessly and waits to be rescued. Also, that mode of storytelling seems unlikely to turn the beautiful…

Jesus, why would this episode be divisive? It's awesome- silly, sure, but not like breaking the rules of the world silly, and it takes the characters seriously. And: Batman sings! Zatanna flings! Wonder Pig, the super powered porker! B'Wana Beast! In a thing!

Fair enough, I just can't resist a chance to hold forth on the later Godzilla sequels. For my money, it doesn't get much better than Invasion of Astro Monster or Destroy All Monsters

Every time someone borrows a trivial amount of money from me, I tell them not to worry about paying me back, though I will take their thumbs if they don't