They have a point in that Marty McFly does do that in the movie.

Beach Boys, "Wouldn't it be Nice?"

Oingo Boingo, "Weird Science"

Depeche Mode, Black Celebration

Yazoo, "In my Room"

Psychadelic Furs, "Pretty in Pink"

Slade - "Merry Christmas Everybody"

The Rural Alberta Advantage, "The Dethbridge in Lethbridge"

The xx, "Heart Skipped a Beat"

Youth Lagoon, "17"

Dude they really conspicuously left the door open there. As opposed to, say, when they killed Trip and fucked up Mack.

Yes, because when I think drab and somber, I think of the incredibly flamboyant Blade Runner Gaff and his huge neon-blue tapa hat band.

Lucy Lawless's character isn't dead. She's ambiguously dead. Which is different. They even put a pin in it by having that conversation about cybernetics right before she seems to die.

If they do a time travel episode, it'll be an Agent Carter crossover and Simmons will make a Carmen Sandiego joke about her hat that no one gets.

Homage to Alien. Most of the setup was taken from what the sleepers saw before going under or what was going on around them, rather than how they actually work.

Well they're SUPPORTING you in your bad decisions….

It's called Tumblr. But never, ever go there.

But the Marvel Approach has room for that. Don't forget that their last big film involved both space cops and magic stones that confounded EVEN ANCIENT SPACE WIZARDS. Because there isn't really any coherent marvel approach outside of their house style when it comes to gags.

The thing is, right, though, the thing is? Superhero stuff is not a genre in and of itself outside of really terrible and dated comics. It's always been crime stories, or revenge narratives, or detective stories, or space opera, or whatever. That's what makes the Marvel approach work: they acknowledge that a superhero…

Hannibal isn't a "Muppet Babies" anything because it's based on a radically new approach to basically everyone and everything that turns up in it. It's like calling Batman Begins a Muppet Babies Batman Forever. Although actually that might be fair if we're going to talk about their approach to camp… But that aside,…