In most of the rest of the world, they just call it an SMSaster.

Similar to that classic Space Ghost episode, "King Dead". Even though it could be about necromantic monarchy, it isn't.

I agree, the implication of the possibility was clear enough without any need for actual grossness. As dark as it is, this is still a … comedy? Realist rom-com shame opera? Romantic laugh tragical musidy? Something like that.

With the kind of breaks they have between seasons with this show, it seems like a lot of the fanbase won't mind reused jokes. For many it's been years since they've heard them.

Look, I approve of your moxie, but I don't think "87$ and hour, p/h" is really going to be enough to get the show a third season. But keep brainstorming, maybe you'll come up with something.

I don't have a problem with missed opportunities. They're just doing their thing, trying to make it on this crazy ball of dirt like… I dunno, like something I can't think of right now, but I'm sure it will come to me later. Yeah, later.

I spent the last 40 questions thinking about how I wrote Henry Miller instead of James Mitchener as the author of Hawaii. Why why why why why ugh.

The time pressure on those online tests rough. I did a practice run-through of Tuesday and Wednesday's tests before taking the real one tonight. Apparently I can do a solid ten questions better in practice than when I'm actually faced with a ticking clock. Damn the limitations of my puny ape brain!

No! The Cosmic Cube contains unlimited energy! Unlimited, I say! Nothing can stop me now, not the laws of Gods or men, not S.H.I.E.L.D., S.W.O.R.D., H.Y.D.R.A., A.I.M., not even…. The Avengers???

He's too busy working… at the business factory.

Bap bah, bap bah…
This is the sound of settling*

Who does he think he is, with his beer that comes in "bottles"? Man, that guy.

We were all thinking it.

Rounded off, huh…

There's definitely some room for some excellent, sympathetic development for Valencia. I mean, she's desperately holding on to her high-school boyfriend, who she doesn't even have that much in common with, or seem to like all that much anymore. That sounds indicative of a deep, hidden wellspring of sadness to me.

Agreed on all points, except she did get a stunt double on some of the pole shots I think? There was a lot of hair in her face on some of the cuts, which is usually how you can tell.

I don't want to label her… I just want to be her friend.

So I don't get many chances to poll dance, but I'm really hoping to break one out in Des Moines next Monday.

He's definitely my abs-jective. Someday I hope too to be allergic to shirts.

God damn, this episode was like a crawl through emotional barbed wire for me. It was a party bus straight to social-anxiety hell. It was a swivel-headed baby on the bathroom ceiling in the middle of a poopsgiving fiasco. It was a salad bar of awkwardness and all the spinach bits kept getting stuck in my teeth. It was…