Inasmuch as they're small business owners, quarterly filings might even make sense, though I think their discussion with Teddy made it seem annual.

The overall plot arcs were pretty unimpressive — about par for the course of latter-day Simpsons, but I found the pacing and overall level of the humor in the Chore Monkey sequences, especially the "hostage negotiation", to be pretty excellent, and had me laughing about as hard as I have in several seasons, though…

Naw, it's perfectly cromulent.

We have one of those tiles just a few blocks down my suburban street. One day, it will all become all too clear…

To enjoy The Killer, you can’t just suspend disbelief; you have to utterly eradicate it.

Sleeping Beauty has a fair amount of action, a particularly badass villain, and its princess is unconscious or off-screen though most of it. Definitely little boy material.

I'm not much of a beer fan either, but I sometimes find it a good accompaniment to steak or roast beef.

She's not really dead… as long as we fap to her.

There are some omnivores that should always be written as omnivores.

Dogs and cats are the only animals that I think get stereotyped that way (and it's not universal, or actually believed with any weight), though horses, oddly, seem to get stereotyped as feminine by some people, and masculine by others. I have a vague sense that mice and other tiny animals may be thought of as…

So, was Prince referencing that "…you're on your own" title in the prologue to "Let's Go Crazy", or is there some other common source for it? Because Prince + Firesign Theater is a pop culture juxtaposition I never would have anticipated.

Prestidigititis, upthread, gives Herriman's official explanation. I'd always attributed it, in part, to the tendency of many folks to think of all cats as "feminine" (and all dogs as masculine).

Especially if it's been through a desert.

I'll go with "rather".

Of course, the "drive-by wandings" won't actually hit their targets, and a nearby bunch of honor students will be turned into toads.

I thought it and its main guns looked kind of big, and all those 5" turrets on the sides kind of numerous.

So I'm guessing that's USS Salem standing in for the Indianapolis in the pic? I don't offhand know of any actual WWII-vintage US heavy cruisers still in existence.

Along with Waco, Jewell, and Elian, I'd add that as a US Attorney in Florida, she prosecuted a day care "ritual abuse" case at the height of those near-literal witch hunts in the '80s, that relied, as most of them did, on heavy coaching of child witnesses and a coerced/coached confession. She always stood behind her…

Thanks for the link. That was a pretty awesome re-read too.

Lithgow's phone book-armored prison knife fight with Jesse Ventura is perhaps the only movie brawl mismatch more absurd than Craig T. Nelson vs. Carl Weathers in Action Jackson, because at least Nelson didn't win that one.