It would have been, if it'd kept the book's flamethrowing robot dogs.

Oh, good. I slowed it with ReClock for nothing.

I was able to watch Love Exposure all the way through in one viewing thanks to fortuitously being awake at 1:00 AM with no prospect of falling asleep.

I remember back in 2005 or so seeing another student reading the manga and immediately thinking, "This person doesn't 'get' FLCL like I do!" and getting a bit angry just at that. I realized then that I had a problem.

I believe you mean "with FLCL it worked like Gunbusters".

And thank you for alerting me to how pretentious I sound.

FLCL's dub is among the best, but The Headless Corpse of Roger W, Japanese directors are not that great at determining the quality of English language acting. On the more tolerable end we have Resident Evil and Metroid: Other M. On the incomprehensible end we have Kaji in Evangelion 2.0.

I'm relieved to see Hayden's so in-the-know. I shouldn't expect less of AV Club, but reviews of things like FLCL are always tricky, and I come across "It's not supposed to make sense!" frequently from admirers and detractors.

No, I'm glad. I wanted to know what I missed and now I know. I've seen several of these, mostly a long time ago, but don't remember the "curmudgeon" angle of them very well. I saw Annie when I was a child and just remember Warbucks as being warmhearted. Let the Right One In I saw last year and would never have thought…

You know, I thought I'd seen a lot of movies (nowhere near all, since that's impossible, but a lot, and from as many time periods and cultures as I can; I've seen practically every film you see a clip from in Hugo), but Scott and Tasha both refer to precious-orphan-befriending-curmudgeon-who-adopts-him as an overused…

Not so much weird as probably inaccurate, judging by your previous comment on Gillian Jacobs in Choke.

I liked how, at the end of the episode, Chuckie's angel flew into the sun and burned up.

A double take… at the stereo speakers?

I still haven't seen any mention of the Star Wars Christmas album Christmas in the Stars yet. I know the Advent Calendar deals with stuff that originated on TV, but Christmas in the Stars really needs to be heard. Unlike the Holiday Special, it's so bad it's good.

So I guess this episode takes place before "Rapture's Delight"? I'd gone by the obvious assumption that you could either ignore "Rapture's Delight" or consider every subsequent episode a fantasy.

>The A.V. Club loves the holiday season
>I’m not someone who particularly cares about Christmas

But Jordo, you have to admit that his recent style (as seen in the recent Simpsons couch gag) is too over-the-top to sustain a cartoon for very long.

Thanks, Standards & Practices!

Basically. John K. seems to have unintentionally made a genuinely great episode and to this day doesn't realize it.

OK, we got South Park! What are the odds of getting a day of Moral Orel before the end of the Advent Calendar?