This ultimately wasn't as funny or engaging as FDOC (though part of that may have been the sheer novelty of WHAS doing an eight-part mini-series for the first time), but I still laughed really hard throughout and enjoyed taking the trip back to Camp Firewood. Here's hoping for more!

"Even Casey’s own relationship with sort-of bad-boy Evan (Graham Rogers), who got kicked out of school for stealing a tuba, is much more developed that Sam’s thing with Paige."

I'm still amazed at how good these books are—creating a 50+ book series that told an epic story involving aliens, space/time travel, animal morphing and the cost of war, all while keeping it relateable to pre-teens, ALL in the course of half a decade, is incredible.

I've had long, intense arguments with friends about whether the scene towards the end where the guy falls off the ship and THWUNKS against the propeller is funny.

Absolutely in. First Day of Camp was hysterical, and this looks like a perfect continuation of its bizarre, meta, completely-out-of-left-field humour.

Absolutely. I honestly have a really fond memory of seeing it on the first day of summer vacation when I was 12. I fell out of my seat laughing a few times, and thought I was going to die at "shine your shoes wipe your—face!" It's a funny movie that knows exactly what it's trying to accomplish.

I remember babysitting a kid when I was 15 and putting Groove on, having never seen it before. I laughed so much harder than he did. "Well, ya got me. By all accounts, it doesn't make sense" is one of the funniest lines in cinema history.

"A one-note character? I guess you could say they cause a lot of… treble?"

Unquestionably the best. Was the game that introduced me to Action-RPGs and a lot of the X-Men lore. And the final fights—with the Master Mold and Apocalypse—were so huge and epic.

That was the game that introduced me to Deadpool! The best part is if you're playing him and then encounter him as a boss, he has a really confusing conversation with himself.

Hey, isn't Milwaukee an Indian name?

"Thinking gives you wrinkles!"

I nearly fell out of my chair at work laughing. And I consider myself to be a devout Christian.

One thing that really keeps the energy up for these lengthy episodes is that you can tell the (adult, especially) actors are having a blast with the material. Olaf's henchpeople ham it up to an absurd degree, and there were a few scenes at the Anxious Clown where Poe was clearly smiling as NPH delivered his Sea…

Yes. Goosebumps especially. Same usage of dark humour, adults being useless and kids having to solve everything themselves.

See, that's where I'm struggling as I watch this series. From the very beginning I've approached it as an older-audience focused black comedy quasi-parody of kids shows/books, and generally the tone of the series meets that (macabre events with no silver lining, rapid joke delivery and tons of references that no kid…

I would classify both the special and the VG album as "perfect" entertainment. The special is charming and funny and recognizes the darkness and depression that can come with the season. It's flawed, but its flaws only make it better.

I absolutely love this band. Clarity got me through my early twenties and Bleed American has some great songs to run/work out to. And I'll say this: for all the flack The Middle gets, it has never failed to put me in a better mood when I listen to it.

"So you… you… *about to break*… you hit him with the club again, and then… and then what?"

Accelerate is a great album. "Living Well is the Best Revenge" is such a fun fuck-you song and I must have half the tracks on my running playlist.