I can't be the only person who didn't realize that there even was an Annie/Abed plot in this episode.

And American evangelicals tie themselves into rhetorical knots trying to get around the fact that if anyone in modern times is "Rome," it's totally white American Christians.

Note to self: If you ever create a show, start with the fifth season.

Perhaps this seeming descent into self-cannibalizing and empty referencing is actually part of the season's thematic long game - History is the core class and the eponym of the first episode, after all- and it will actually deconstruct this kind of seasonal rot.

Holy shit, there's actually going to be a summer blockbuster where Chris Pratt is a half-alien astronaut-hero on the same team as an anthropomorphic raccoon and a space-ent called the Monarch of Planet X. My God.

Aziz Ansari as Rocket Raccoon (imagine what a raccoon would sound like, and try not to hear Tommy Haverford), Nick Offerman as Groot (the man works wood, goddamn it), some lifter bro as Drax, Aubrey Plaza as Gamora.

Huh, Knowles and Jabba the Hutt were mentioned in the same article, and nobody's gone THERE yet.

There's always been bits of weirdly adult sexuality in some cartoons. Like Betty Boop, who was somehow considered sexy back in the day, or Pepe LePew, who was a cat-rapist.

There actually are renegade Scientologists unaffiliated or "excommunicated" (to use a Christian term) by the Church who somehow don't realize that it's all an insane scam.

Well, shit, I wish I didn't know that could have been a thing. :(

Multiple demographic appeal. You get your hulking villain, your smart villain, your sexy villain - everyone has someone to hate and resent.

Abrams could actually happen the hell out the franchise.

"I got the results of the test back, I definitely have midichlorians."

"I got the results of the test back, I definitely have midichlorians."

The surname Stone means she's a bastard from the Vale, unfit to marry into any noble house no matter how comely she may be.

Yeah, autism, along with all of humanity's ills, are gluten's fault according to pop nutrition.

Nick Offerman would totally be the obligatory big game hunter, and I would watch the shit out of that.

The T-Rex could not have done all that damage to the cable-and-pylon network by herself AND scale that wall with those weedy little Calista Flockhart arms in under thirty seconds.

@avclub-8e241a00e2905962b86a2e25a7945c70:disqus Batman is about about an mentally ill man dressed like a bat who beats up mentally ill terrorists. It should either be the bleakest or funniest thing ever.

"I'VE ABANDONED CHILD! I'VE ABANDONED CHILD! I'VE ABANDONED MY BOY!"