And spell it phonetically with flare guns devised for that very purpose.

It's not as bad as the confusing episode order of Season One of "Arrested Development", where if you watch the episodes in the order in which they aired you're watching the plot somewhat out of order as well.

In addition to Finn's hair taking time to grow back, as is pointed out by Nathan Ford's Evil Twin (I can't tag anyone for some reason right now) the wizard was the same one from "Mystery Dungeon."

The "Yep, that's the idea," was possibly the most heartwarming joke about fatherhood I've ever heard.  At least, it's the most heartwarming joke about fatherhood I've heard on a cartoon program aimed primarily at kids.

I just thought it was another BMO malapropism, but now that you mention it, it's probably also a dirty joke.

Eh, this one wasn't my favorites.  There were some great moments:  Finn and Jake swimming in the pool of water for about thirty seconds before deciding to leave, Jake's "SASSAGE" gun, everything involving BMO (I'm not the only one who felt kinda bad for BMO putting all that effort into making those "sassages" only to…

@avclub-6b8aa777ed70e7f15a45947a0f0c5986:disqus   Yeah, I can totally see where people are coming from when they say they disliked the mopey-ness of "The Magicians".  When I first read it, I didn't really have that reaction, as I was a bored college student who identified with Quentin to a certain extent.  And I kind…

@LJo1:disqus Well, The Hobbit is pretty much a kids' book, and hence pretty different in style from the rest of Tolkien's Middle Earth works.  LOTR and especially "The Silmarillion" are kinda dense, dry, and literary in comparison to an epic along the lines of ASOIAF, which, apart from the daunting task of remembering…

Parks and Rec!  It's one of the few current shows that I have the time/access to Hulu to watch, and it is still amazing, even if nothing they do seems likely to ever reach the heights of Season 3.

Well, I would say there were a good four seasons in the late 60s to mid 70s where the Minnesota Vikings was one of the best shows around.  2009 was another good season, but after that it gets kind of shitty for a while.  Last season was actually pretty good though; the subplot with Adrian Peterson was one of the best…

Yeah, wait on the Rothfuss then.  He took four years between books one and two, so if you read them now, if you're like me you'd find yourself wanting to re-read them when the final installment comes out several years from now.  I definitely mean to read some Mieville someday soon.  Any suggestions on a good place to…

"A Song of Ice and Fire" is fantastic.  And of course I've read Tolkien, but yeah, I know how you feel with the Massive Fantasy Epics thing.  As far as other modern stuff I've read that's good, I've enjoyed Lev Grossman's Magicians series (though people's opinions on it seem to be pretty sharply divided between love…

I don't know if this discussion is supposed to be restricted to things that aren't 50% composed of gratuitous, embarrassingly awful and repetitve "Men are from Mars, women are from Venus"-esque dialogue, but I'm almost through with the fourth book of "The Wheel of Time" and holy fucking shit is that series the epitome…

Is reading Sandman really that daunting of a task?  I literally just read the first issue hours ago, and it doesn't seem like it'll take me that long (checks "The Sandman" Wikipedia page)…75 issues and numerous spin-off mini-series, yep actually it is pretty daunting.

I think there's an article on AV Club from a few months ago on this very subject.

My dad was a big fan of TNG (and, to a lesser extent, DS9, Voyager, and Enterprise) when I was growing up, and I watched a decent number of reruns as a kid, but never really got into it on too deep a level.  When is it during TNG's run that Patrick Stewart gets turned into a Borg?  I remember that episode (movie?)…

I liked this a lot; it's nice to finally catch a good show from it's beginning.  It was also pretty great to hear a reference to a tie in hockey, even if such a reference would have worked in a show set only nine years ago as well; I hate the Caps, but I definitely hope we get some more now-outdated NHL references…

I think Dr. Elliot's "Thank you for that backhanded compliment," is another one that can make sense without needing to know where it came from.

McKay:  When I last saw [my son] he was no bigger than…
Mojo:  (holds up normal-sized teacup) This cup?
McKay:  (appears to seriously consider Mojo's question for a moment) No, he was a little bigger than that.

Is it just me, or is "The Americans" not scheduled to come on until 11:30?  I hope this show is as good as the AV Club thinks it can be, I'm not following any good non-comedies at the moment that I have reliable access to.