Don't see how this is "controversial"; it's just the moment where Madoka Magica takes off its happy face and shows you how scary its world really is. And it can't be controversial when so many US fans name it as their favorite episode. Ep 3 is absolutely essential for what Madoka eventually becomes, but it's still…

So has anyone seen the Ringo Starr-directed T. Rex movie Born to Boogie? Given that I only hear about its existence — and not that anyone actually likes it — I've long assumed it's awful.

Tanx also has songs with titles like "Electric Slim and the Factory Hen". And they're great fun.

From the sound of it, I got super lucky getting into T. Rex at the dawn of the CD era. His fan club (I think?) put out most of his post-Electric Warrior albums on CD, stuffed with bonus tracks, including "Children of the Revolution" after The Slider and "20th Century Boy" after Tanx. The way to spot these "Marc on…

Perfect timing, AV Club. I've had "Bastille Day" stuck in my head all morning. Not that I'm complaining.

Also, I need more time to finish adapting the lyrics of the Tiny Toon Adventures theme song to fit Bunheads. This is all I've got so far:

Poor Campbell is all but excluded from the proceedings, with McHale occupying her comedic position in more than half of that episode’s sketches.

Maybe he has secured his place in line for Youmacon.

I was fortunate to see Blake's 7 in college in the late 80's, when the San Jose PBS station ran a block of Sunday night sci-fi for all the geeks in Silicon Valley (also showing stuff like The Prisoner, the original Outer Limits, UFO, etc.). My need for an American version was dampened by the rebooted Battlestar…

Monday's article on legally-available overseas shows had several entries from Japan and South Korea. It may be that with internet streaming and apps (Drama Fever, etc.), it's easier to come by second-tier Korean and Japanese shows than European ones?

I'm into animation as an art form and an industry, so it's interesting to me to see how it's aged, what it says about its own time, what it got right and wrong, etc.

Interested to know where were you that you could have seen them? Are/were you in Europe? Wikipedia says the original ("…Man") was never shown in the US, and I only saw it because we could pick up CBC and TV Ontario.

Like it says at the beginning of the article, anime is quite easy to come by compared to the kinds of shows featured in this article. Maybe better to reserve this discussion for the hard-to-get stuff from around the world and hope that AV Club returns to anime another day? (I've got a bunch of anime to talk up… trying…

Last year, I picked up a DVD of Once Upon A Time… Man, a French animated history-of-the-world program co-produced with various European broadcasters (and I believe animated by Japan's Tatsunoko), which I'd seen on CBC while growing up outside Detroit. The series is in French or English, although the latter is just the…

Thanks for starting this thread of streaming sites (all of which also have iOS and/or Roku apps) with foreign dramas… streaming an episode is a much more practical way to sample a show than to go out and buy a bunch of DVDs sight-unseen. It's a pity these sites/apps weren't talked up more in the article itself… man…

Disagree. After Kyubey's "living in caves" speech, I went running to my old college freshman classmates to see who still had a marked-up Norton Critical Edition of Faust, since Kyubey is making one of Göethe's most salient points: humanity doesn't advance without the reckless ambition of people like Faust (or Homura,…

Kind of sounds like the grab-bag of Adult Swim Sunday coverage that AVC did a few years ago. Not clear if covering a bunch of shows with just one or two paragraphs each worked really worked, but it's not like 15 minutes of Robot Chicken demands its own article either. Maybe a TV Club 10 article for each of the really…

No offense, but hasn't Evangelion been fully talked out at this point? I mean, it's going to hit its 20th anniversary in two years, and it's still crowding out discussion of other worthy anime.

I think TV Tropes needs to coin us a new trope: "Tardis-Powered God Girl":

what looks like a heavy use of what should be a strong Winter Olympics promotional platform next February because that worked so well for Go On and Animal Practice last August