I think she just looks like that because everyone else in the villain game is so incompetent. I mean, a sandwich had a similar win record before she showed up.

I bet they make you smell the same regardless.

I haven't checked the credits, but CW put the song up on Youtube as Textmergency, and let's face it, that guy needed a win.

I haven't done the weird secret love thing, but i have done this episode's specific "way more into hug than other person" moment.

Even if she didn't though, it's still pretty gross that she's playing the victim for sympathy a second time with the same manufactured scenario immediately after it blew up in her face the first time. I think he might have even been ok being the friend cleaning up her mess if she was honest about what the mess was up…

It kind of works by rom com logic, and would probably convince some real people too. Once you end up together, the super creepy way you got there is just a cute story you tell at dinner parties. It's a huge red flag when you're uncertain about someone, but isn't that big a deal for somebody you know well.

Rango for me. I'm sure there are more recent things, but that's the last one i can personally remember seeing.

Yes, right down to "and lose some weight" which is a problem, because i am objectively skinny and just have a weird gut.

Well "I have friends" has been replaced by "Check the Buddha sconce, check the Buddha SCOOOOOOOOONCE" as the most inexplicable thing i'm going to find myself accidentally singing in public.

Look the key is to keep it in your head. And to resort to racial slurs when normal cursing doesn't seem strong enough. And to do start way before hearing the song version.

How stupid and implausible an idea is a moon circus here? It seems like there would be some interest in it (probably not enough to justify the cost of seeing it live, but televised sure) and it seems well within the realm of possibility in his world.

It's nice that Stark tower and the Baxter building are just the same place under different ownership in this world, rather than ripoffs of each other.

Related: is it fair to claim JJ wasn't doing super science like Rusty does in this episode? I mean, he definitely built a butler robot, but maybe that's just a normal, tacky consumer product by VB standards? Or maybe it's amazing and Rusty's jealously dismissing huge and meaningful innovations because JJ made them.

I didn't really get that line of comments at first. His just assuming it's a tranq gun and Shore Leave and Rusty's reactions to it seemed weird until i remembered what kind of world this was — a reflection of comic book censorship where a realistic gun is a bigger no-no than worse violence that's harder for kids to…

Or a small child, which people regularly do.

So you just hope some Terrys try something?

I also like that the side effects there go beyond the mundane "you're going to die" into more bizarre possibilities that make you question the nature of consciousness and identity even if you don't take the drug.

Hey, while we're on the topic, why the hell is he in that scene? Why on earth does he sneak back into the US after the only thing he cares about is over, and intimidate someone into doing CIA coverstory paperwork that in no way involves him?

So much stuff happens in it! I've seen entire movies with fewer real beats than that friggin pilot.

I'll probably give Superstore another chance. I also like both the leads (I am one of around 4 people who miss A to Z), but it didn't hook me when i checked out an episode a couple weeks ago.