I don't know. I just feel like the pedophilia angle, to me, got de-emphasized drastically in season 4. Which is probably for the best, if only because I feel the direction they DID go with Hatred was a lot more interesting.

I think that's the main thing I love about Hatred — his weird aw-shucks enthusiasm. he's like a retired military man fumbling his way through a job as a camp counselor, or something.

I really need to get back to Sam and Fuzzy. I liked the original gag-a-day incarnation, but just… kind of tuned out later, not because I didn't like where the strip was going, just because I found it unexpectedly difficult to follow. Haven't thought about that strip in years. I'll have to revisit it.

One of the things I love abut the show is how relentlessly… HUMANE it is. It very rarely just throws out a character as a superficial obstacle — hang around long enough, and you'll generally find out something about why that character is the way he/she is. (And note that the few exceptions — Baron von Underbheit,…

Which is what i like about Sgt. Hatred — better than Brock, in some ways. He's a different angle on the show's core themes — he actually has something to do with what the show is about. Whereas Brock, who's a great character, is frequently an obstacle to The Venture Bros. being The Venture Bros. He's SO…

I can see that — Season 2 isn't my favorite or even my second-favorite, but any show that can do "Escape to the House of Mummies" and "Twenty Years to Midnight" back-to-back…

Really? That much?

Wow — THAT one? I felt like the Scooby-Doo episode was one of the show's bigger early-season missteps, the kind of obvious pop-culture parody that has been done before. I still liked the episode, mostly because of all the extraneous stuff (and the Venture-stein plot was pretty good as well), but to me that sits up…

Same here — I liked it enough to stick with it 8 years or so ago, but I had a lot more patience for Adult Swim-type stuff back then. If I saw the first few episodes that I saw then now, I probably wouldn't have stuck with it, and that would be a shame.

Except that, you know, the Guild is actually a fully thought-out part of the show's universe, a place where stories can be and have been consistently told.

4, 3, 2, 1. To me, this show is about world-building — the more world, the more I like it.

Which explains the lack of a title — they had one, but Fox was already using it.

I bet Tom Arnold wishes he could.

I mean, that's what doesn't make sense. Sure, you can say you don't want to court Parks and Rec/Community's viewers any more. That might even be a good business decision… except that you HAVE Parks and Rec/Community's viewers. Those are the people who are tuning into your network.

Really? They're desperate. You can make a show that averages a 1.2 in the demo, like Community did, and NBC will renew it, because literally everything else they have that's not ending or about Amy Poehler does worse than that.

No, it delights us. I'd gladly watch a version of Community with Moose Garrett, and Moose Garrett would put me out of a job.

The Fresh Horse of Bel Air actually ended in 1996.

I don't know who that is, actually. But really, actors are actors. Who even cares, really, as long as they can deliver the lines? Ultimately, writing staffs define a show.

The pilot script I saw looked pretty good. But that was the pilot from last year, pre-retooling, so who knows what this is now.

I think they just planned to have a season. You can't think about that kind of stuff.