I didn't have time to rewatch these (and season 3 is overall lackluster that I wasn't motivated to make the time to rewatch them), so I don't have too much to say this week. Myles has touched on at least some of the things that I never cared for, and he was more eloquent about them than I would have been.

The notes in the deluxe DVD set indicate that the trick-or-treating scenes were filmed in day because they couldn't afford the lighting it would require to shoot outdoors at night.

I never watched F&G before, but since you started the first article I blew through the entire season.  So good.

Bruce's beatboxing is a win because it stupefies Kelso. That's pretty much all.

"My White Whale"

Now nobody gets the shrink ray!

Unless you're savvy enough to know that that voice-over is unreliable narration.

Good analogue.

That link made my day. Thank you.

Good observations about the women in the show. I believe there was some interview in which Hammer and Publick stated that Venture Bros. takes place is a "world without mothers."

The show seems to play a little fast and loose with how much of a scientist Rusty actually is. My take is that he seems to have picked up just enough legitimate skill to be dangerous. In "What Color Is Your Cleansuit?" He knows enough to build that hypermagnetized prototype, but not enough to keep it from pulling in…

Smile took about forty years, so I guess we can look forward to hearing this one by, oh, say about 2048?

Violent crime is one of the few things in a story that doesn't need plot development. You don't "gradually build" to someone killing you for your wallet. It's a ruthless sudden shock that comes out of the blue.

Would that be the literary device in which all the characters gradually over time become puddles of vomit?

Okay, that's more valid. Maybe you meant "processed?"

It turns out that the monster….

On a re-watch, you're totally right. I still didn't think it was very funny, but there's so little time between the first mention of "Student Green" and the reveal that it's people (less than two minutes) that there's literally no tension about it. Just one of those gags that didn't land with me.

Same!

Great catch, @avclub-858efe79f72172720908b892e3a26092:disqus . I completely missed this.

Indeed, it was intentionally confusing. Now, whether that excuses it, we could argue all day. I say it doesn't matter a whole heck of a lot (in fact, by the end of the first George Sr. episode, I had predicted that even George and Oscar would lose track of who was who), and that you can still pretty much get what's…