At this point, I'm so numb to the stylized Flash animation that I've just come to accept it. I've been bouncing liberally through multiple styles anywhere - been watching old eps of Disney Afternoon cartoons, and they are lovely (except anything from the Kennedy studio - YESH), and certain studios can use Flash in…

I don't mind them catering younger - I have a CS Lewis/Maurice Sendack mentality to the whole thing.

People were retweeting a lot of "Trust Anonymous" type tweets and my mind was boggling. I know that people have an admittedly-justified aversion to TV/blogging/vlog news programming, but to then turn to complete fucking strangers? Are you kidding me?

To me it's one of those double-edged swords things.

The other thing - Harry doesn't know Joan slept with the Jaguar dude, does he? If he ever found out, I bet he'd be more shocked and horrified than even Don (who seems to be the only one cared in any personal way).

(Same as Kevin Johnson - signed in with a different account)

Okay, with that explanation, I will amend my complaint. I'll admit that I do tend to… bristle a bit when reviewers tend to describe certain things as dark in cartoons since there's like this tendency to get caught up in the idea that they're getting away with something. Part of that was from the entire "finger Prince"…

I really enjoyed this one. I think it's because I like the extra wackiness to the proceedings, and both plots had a natural build to them. Even the "commercial break" cliffhangers felt on the money. I think this might have been the best-paced episode to date. It really felt like things were moving and the stakes were…

Also there's Big Time Rush, who is all over Nickelodeon.

Yeah, I noticed that in the credits. Awesome addition. All former boy band members seem to sing parodies of themselves in animated shows. See: Chris Kirkpatrick as Chip Skylark in Fairly Oddparents.

Good news for such a shitty, shitty week.

Yeah, I mean, the only fiction that "undoes" character deaths more frequently are superhero comics. It's literally impossible to write yourself into an inescapable hole in a soap opera.

This reminds me of that scene in A History of Violence, when Mortensen's character straight-up rapes his wife. I remember being HORRIFIED at the scene (like, it bothered me for a week straight) but the overall critical community treating it like a commentary of violence.

Part of me (jokingly) thinks they got Alston to do a piece like this in response to the other FYC about the "white people problems" criticism. I'm sure that's not the case - I pretty sure you have to pitch every idea first before writing it up - but I do wonder what the overall response would be if a white writer did…

Well, I think most critics do this for films from Japan and South Korea, especially animes and the like. I think a lot of that gets contextualized in the beauty of some of the animated imagery (animes) or the audacious concepts (live-action) that stem from them. Still, even when a film from those countries do make it…

There's definitely a vibe among critics that Perry is "talentless but goddammit, he's working" - which, if you think about it, is kinda racist in itself. It's systematic of a larger reaction to black people working - lack of talent and ability is pushed aside for the general if misguided affinity to be happy that a…

Crazy they took a model from late 80s/early 90s cartoons (ordering a giant batch of them and airing them willy-nilly) and applied it to sitcoms. At least with cartoons you have the idea that kids will watch repeats in syndication, making such a decision for live-action seems risky and dangerous. What other network…

Same thing happened with Butch Hartman, who -surprise surprise- worked on Johnny Bravo as well. He peaks with a solid run with Fairly Oddparents, which went to shit once their baby Poof was born, then followed it up with TUFF Puppy. That STARTED out with potential but quickly went to crap by the beginning of the…

I long believed that was the "joke". Like, of all the characters to spin-off, why Cleveland? Because LOL TROLL U. But then they had to, you know, make a show, which didn't start off too well, but kinda sorta got mildly watchable.

"Black guy trouble."