I love the way Trouble's bridge goes from normal bitterness ("You never loved me…or her…") to absolutely bonkers ("or anyone! OR ANYTHING!"). I wouldn't call it good, but it makes me laugh whenever I catch it on the radio.

@avclub-5a1c0dcc8243c086c74ee944052f6f0f:disqus @avclub-ce11a6d53c3c8c10c196e2114a8d5149:disqus Where did you guys do Quiz Bowl? I had good experiences with NAQT and Knowledge Bowl in Minnesota - assholes in the minority, challenges allowed. College Bowl was assholes all the way down, though.

Well, that was his body temperature when he made that particular video. It very well may have kept going down as his transformation got further along.

@avclub-2c6d7f23f661010f5b0c2fa53517c29d:disqus Shakerism is the Lawful Goodest religion.

Maybe we can get it on TV Club Classic? It's been, what, three or four months since the finale? That's enough time.

Did PB know that Ash had stolen Hambo? She could maybe infer as much (or at least that it was stolen at some point), given how Marceline acts during the episode, but the fact that she says something like "You bought it off some guy named Ash" rather than "Marceline's jerk ex-boyfriend Ash" or similar, suggests that…

@avclub-7cbaf9384cf3835106bf2f444c0bcf65:disqus But, assuming that Marcy and PB did have a romantic relationship at some point, it's already been treated as abnormal because the show won't come out and say so, whereas it's always treated Jake and Lady's relationship with no-big-deal candor. I just don't see how…

I trusted you, @olivececile:disqus!

Haha, seriously? That's fantastic/terrible.

Will someone please spoil this?

I saw ParaNorman during the day, expecting to have a similar experience. Nope. Just me and a 40-something man. So if that was any of you guys, sorry I assumed you were going to kidnap me (and then, when you left in the middle, that I further assumed that it was because you realized I was not a child).

Stan and Soos (and maybe the other adult characters?) have five-fingered hands, while Dipper and Mabel have four fingers. I always assumed that was just a quirk of character design, but with the emphasis on six-fingered hands this episode, who knows, maybe finger numbers are significant.

Sure. Here's the distinction: A comic book is bound with staples. A graphic novel is bound like, well, a novel.

@avclub-b32768df2cfff3a5ab1a78d093711e2c:disqus Not giving a damn about Scooby Doo is a good way to go into Mystery Inc. People who really like other iterations of Scooby Doo seem more likely to hate it, in my experience, but I don't really get why, beyond "Any changes to something I like are bad!" stupidity.

@avclub-421d91cd1f20d044be31c05a2908e03b:disqus SOMETHING with Vincent Price's sidekick happened one summer, but it can't have been 13 Ghosts as we know it, because (a) real ghosts aren't a thing in Mystery Inc., and (b) Vincent Price's character was substantially reworked from being a wizard into being basically…

I don't think the Pokemon/Digimon comparison is apt. Digimon started out as a Tamogatchi ripoff of all things, and I remember the cartoon being substantially different from the Pokemon cartoon, or at least the bad guys being way more threatening.

The backgrounds from the original Scooby Doo are actually pretty great-looking, especially considering the quality of the animation: http://secretfunspot.blogsp…

The New Scooby-Doo Movies are literally the only reason I know who Phyllis Diller is.

I don't understand why Cartoon Network tried so hard to bury Mystery Inc., which, yeah, is by far the best Scooby-Doo. I swear that there were more What's New episodes on during its run than there were Mystery Inc. episodes.

As someone who bailed on 6 after two episodes (and had basically forgotten them by the time 7 started), I feel comfortable saying that the first half of 7 holds up without comparing it to the previous season.