I feel like there's a new nickname for Peebles just about every other episode.  Anyone who's actually seen all the episodes care to attempt a complete list?

@avclub-487cf32249fbaaa5a79258e26d54fe19:disqus DOES YOUR MEAL INCLUDE WAFFLES!?

Really?  I thought it was pretty obviously a metaphor for overcoming an addiction to smacking goblin hams through the raising of bizarre fictional desert birds to who one gives of oneself utterly.  They were a bit too on-the-nose about it if you ask me.

I don't think she's generally deliberately malicious.  With Princess Cookie, she was just being a patronizing adult laughing at a cute-kid statement that was more heartfelt than she realized.  With the mermaids, I think she's just kind of tactless in her very amused dismissal of their loneliness.

Am I the only one who felt a sort of "Heavy Metal" vibe from those birds/desert setting?  Or am I completely off on this?

This episode was delightfully weird.  I gave it a B- but on reflection, I'd probably revise that to a B.  Awesomely weird, but not quite brilliant enough to compensate for the fact that it was a bit of a filler episode light on any truly resonant character moments.

I'll admit that I fall into the "people who don't listen to that much hip-hop category, but seriously, I don't really get the general vitriol that Macklemore gets on here.  "The Heist" was generally a pretty great album, in my opinion.  I mean, I can get not liking him, but I mean, I think there's some legitimate room…

I don't know.  I've seen a lot of people rather agressively bashing those who hate it and making blanket statements about everyone who doesn't like it about how we're just overreacting to no-more-Harmon, and how these episodes are no worse than a subpar Harmon episode, so just give the new showrunners some time to…

@avclub-eaf402eeb9124200ac5a79cbc3355d72:disqus You should start a denomination of Christianity wherein John Hurt is revered as the gender-swapped reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, and the puppet of the just-born alien from "Alien" is worshipped as the second coming of Jesus.  Because that would be a hilariously weird…

At first I thought it said that Gary Oldman was the actor playing Abraham, and I was like "Whoa, what's he doing on a History Channel drama?"  But then I saw that it was Gary Oliver, and I was like "Oh, OK."  So yeah, there's that.

You should go for it, then.  I'm not so sure if adaptations of classic novels really count as fanfic, anyways?

Cymbals Eats Guitars is a pretty great name for a band at least.  That's pretty interesting, and something people should care about even, if they're pretty "meh".

Yeah, the Cloud Atlas sextet, in the book, was made out to be this absolutely brilliantly transcendent work of 20th Century classical music, but hearing it I just thought, wow, there's going to be a bunch of kids learning how to play this in my little brother's high school piano lab class over the next couple of…

I'm a big fan of Steven Wilson (most specifically most Porcupine Tree that isn't the more poorly written lyrically/boring half of "The Incident"), but I haven't been a huge fan of what I've heard from TRTRTS so far (which, admittedly is just "Luminol" and the title track, but that's still like a third of the album,…

You mean nobody's done "Heart of Darkness" from Kurtz's perspective yet?

Glad to know I'm not the only one who makes overly-specific calculations of how much of an incredibly-long book I've read.

As someone who's never really watched much Star Trek since occasionally watching some TNG/BS9/Voyager and later Enterprise when my dad had it on while growing up, I decided to start watching the 80s/90s Trek series from their beginnings, since Season 1 of every series is free on Hulu at the moment.  This weekend I…

I definitely think I hold Season 3 of "Parks and Rec" and recent "Parks and Rec" in higher esteem than you do, but yeah, I think it might be time for the show to end.  Even though this season has had more jokes falling flat than the last couple of seasons, I still really care about what's happening to the characters…

@avclub-afe5f98c20cf687d62bdccb6e2b8f136:disqus I feel like that was kind of the point of "Across the Sea", that the narrator (whether it's supposed to be Cuomo or just some generic depressed rock star) is creeped out by his own creepy reaction to this 18-year-old girl's infatuation with him.  I mean Pinkerton itself…

Yeah, it was "hot Daniel", which is possibly my new favorite replacement for profanity.