THANK YOU! That sound pushed Too Many Cooks out of my head, finally.

There's quite a bit of character development with Gadget, too.

Hi, I'm fixing these sentences now. Not at all opposed people pointing these out. I'm a bit confused as to what's wrong with the 3rd one? Does it just come off clunky?

I can. Over the years I softened a lot about it. I didn't mind it at first, then hated it, then came around it as "not ideal but mostly worked." Strangely enough it was a video game that changed my perspective.

Thank you so much for the compliment!

It does. Honestly, I wasn't too keen on the first few episodes myself. But by "Mad Love," all those disjointed elements start to come together, and a lot of those… strange events start to make sense. Watch until "Lully in Frogland" at least. If you're still not into it, it just may not be your cup of tea.

Yeah, when I say "signature style" I don't mean some kind of mandated look, just more that CN is culling a lot of new shows from people who worked on other similar shows. There's a through-line from FlapJack - AdventureTime/Regular Show - Steven Universe/Clarence - Over The Garden Wall.

Not for me! Sure, I have a soft spot for the 90s (mainly because the SHEER variety across approximately 6-8 networks), but I LOVE today's cartoons.

By 00s, there was definitely a trend to move harder into that style, but there was still enough visually unique shows around to keep a decent variety, like Ed, Edd, and Eddy, Courage, and Codename. Plus, CN was still airing Toonami at the time, along with Ben-10 and its few action cartoons.

As mentioned, the AVClub doesn't allow A-pluses. There seemed to be an odd glitch in the CMS where I wasn't able to remove the plus/minus symbol in the grading field. This has been corrected, and it's why you now see the A. Apologies.

I wanted to give this episode, like, a SUPER B. Some of the clunky dialogue held it back from a B+ or an A-, but I did enjoy the heck out it.

I didn't make that clear, and I apologize, but yeah, I knew that the Academy was, overall, for training Stormtroopers, but that the top recruits were exhibiting behavior that would grab the Inquisitors attention. It's a bit odd, though - Ezra definitely was showboating his Jedi skills, but Jai seemed to be just a…

And to follow up on that - to paraphrase a quote from Thursday's Elementary: change is a process, not a light switch.

I think the only major part of the "twist" that I have trouble buying is similar to the part of the Lillie of the Valley "twist" in Breaking Bad. The long con required a lot of outside pieces to fall into place. What if the Magician just didn't care about the six people who were killed? What if the lawyer, after…

I agree. I laughed at it, but I'm not exactly sure what made the piece "so complex, it's legendary." It's fairly surface level.

I think what made it work was that Peele focused on one poster. That's what made the skit kill.

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Amnesia episodes really work in two ways: either it's played completely for laughs increasingly ridiculous ways, or it uses the cliches in a unique way to really nail a truth about the character's flaws.

Nick is in dire straits but has a good poker face. A TMNT/Korra pairing seems obvious but I get the sense that Nick feels TMNT is built around a younger crowd (6-9 years-old) while Korra is more of a older (9-11) crowd, which is why TMNT airs Saturday morning. Which is bizarre.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who liked Carpoolers. Dumb show, had no chance of survival, but it was so goofy I couldn't help but love it.