You gotta get that negative energy ripped for Wolverine movies.

Do Elijah, Tobey and Jake count as an archetype? What would that actually be? Confused/worried/scrunchy-eyebrowed smallish men?

Nope; however, it is more complicated than one would imagine.

You mean Checkov's Merman?

100% seconded about Mexico's Christmas Eve. It's a perfect 15 or so pages that jump around from amazing snapshot descriptions of being in love at a very specific time and place, to recent memories of acquaintances, and thoughts about wartime economic realities that zoom in and out from global map to toothpaste tube…

While I agree that it very much resembles Lebowski, it also very much resembles Lot 49. I dunno, it's funny and relatively light for Pynchon. It didn't overdo the hardboiled aspects of its plot or dialogue. I think I prefer Yiddish Policeman's Union for shaggy dog genre exploration, but I mean, I think if you're…

From the well of their hearts spring the poison
That mixed with suspicion and reckless derision
And something they read on a church toilet stall
They think that their lives are much better
Than mine on the soapbox and ladders stand tall

I saw her wearing denim overalls at a show in Madison like a decade ago. She was complaining about having asps in her stomach and asked how to get rid of them. Someone yelled "intestinal mongoose" and she thought it was hilarious… because she's the best.

Jake washes his produce. This may be the first time I've ever seen that on tv, even though it is an important and all but ignored (in the U.S.) step in preparing food.

There's a whole lot of things there that don't make sense.

Well, only one of them can dunk. 
Both of them do a really great impression of a goat smelling its own semen though.

That wasn't fun at all. 
False fact: Cajun is a mispronunciation of "gaijin", which of course is what the Japanese who had been living in the Louisiana swamps took to calling the invading French settlers. The Japanese immigrants left after they killed all of the whales in the Gulf of Mexico.

Gators' teeth don't hang outside of their jaws! 
 *faints dead away*

That's wonderful.

This movie and it's bad guys always reminded me of the martian section of Heavy Metal. It's got people turning into self mutilating monsters on mars and a female lead.

Seems to me that the only time she acts selfless is in the interest of her kingdom, and occasionally Marceline.

Ummm… the animated Spawn?

Indeed. When FP asks, "Really?" Bunz just says "I don't know."

Spotted Dick with treacle.

I don't want to see everyone get cancer or dismembered, except maybe for Comic Book Guy.