Book One did have a stronger focus, though. The show starts out with three main plots- Korra's training, the anti-benders, and the pro-bending league - and over the course of the season incorporated them all into the same overarching plot. This season has at least six plots going at once, and it doesn't look like…

Offerman actually has the proper head shape to play Roosevelt. Probably need to get fake teeth, though…

His bit on Dangerously Delicious is still the most accurate standup I've heard about being a nerdy single guy in your 20s trying to get dates.

Yes, the Take 5 is awesome. Also, it must have the worst marketing department ever, because seriously, how can that be hard to sell? It has everything good in it, one thing that no other candy bar has in it, and yet it has a forgettable label and never had any advertisements. What gives?

I get where you're coming from, but I think The Suburbs really justifies those extra minutes, while Funeral and Neon Bible, for all their tightness, each had two songs that are just a little less than completely essential.

As Dorek seems to confirm, that might just be the nature of the show, which especially in the early going seems to exude a romantic spirit that's not too common in sitcoms.

You want to take The National in order, just start with Alligator instead of their first two albums.

If you're shotgunning it, you've got nothing to worry about. The drop in quality isn't very noticeable if you're not waiting for one episode to come out every week for several years.

And then they all start arguing about the proper sequence of events, which leads to a shoving match that sends them all into a giant mudhole where they begin wrestling. "But," I can hear you saying, "Margaret Cho, Margo Martindale, Fran Drescher, and Roseanne all stay out of the mudhole, right?" WRONG.

I initially thought The Suburbs was a step down too, but over time it's grown on me, and now it's up there with the other two in an unbroken string of general awesomeness.

"But it also, regrettably, provides a psychological rationale for the fiend’s actions. He’s now a dysfunctional, estranged brother working his way down the family execution list. Isn’t it much scarier, much more disturbingly mysterious, if he’s just a force of pure, unmotivated malevolence?"

Maybe we'll get a DVD Director's Cut.

I'm trying to temper my expectations- one of my best movie-watching experiences ever was coming across Gangs of New York on HBO and not knowing who directed it, and watching this little period piece go completely insane- but damn, these trailers are making this look like it could be a good fucking movie.

Relevance doesn't exist in a vacuum. Relative to what? The wedding? We had one subplot that suggests the bride and groom might not get to the altar, one that's suggested the maid of honor is going to be seriously distracted killing her husband. Relevant to how Ted meets the mother? Well, the only thing relevant…

Don't be ridiculous, I can't do all that crazy computer magic.

It's the cabinet where you keep all your old game consoles, right?

I honestly have no idea how to rank the albums- they all sound different enough that any time I want to listen to one of them, I probably don't want to listen to any of the others.

That guy will miss everything and die angry.

"Country Christopher Walken" is a perfect way to describe Win Butler.

It's nice to know they're still willing to own the U2 influence.