This isn't the end of Pixar, this is Pixar cashing in on a fuckton of kids' toys so they can afford to make awesome movies with limited merchandising options again. If they hadn't made Cars I doubt they would have made Up.

How to Train your Dragon was well made but unbelievably formulaic, like the script fell out of a screenwriting 101 textbook. I don't regret watching it, but comparing it to Toy Story 3 is ridiculous.

Cutlass Supreme
Someone mentioned this a few weeks ago, but finding the Cutlass Supreme at the beach is probably the best surreal Pete and Pete gag from the whole show.

My favorite thing about Frakes is how gracious he is.

Ned: "I must bring justice to those who wronged my family and friends".

Pretty sure I saw a dude in a very pope-ish looking outfit standing next to Pycelle not saying anything. I assume that was him.

I liked this in 1991
I remember really liking this when it aired, just cuz, that kid's a space alien! Wow! Might have been the first time I was exposed to the idea that TV signals travel out into space.

Copyright law
Anyone else see the sad irony in a guy who owes his entire career to intellectual property protection railing against the evils of big government?

Credit
It occurs to me that BTAS features a Marilyn Monroebot long before Futurama did.

Mike, please don't put Teddy's head in a vice.

My dad
This and Ren and Stimpy were the only shows I'd watch as a kid that my dad would sit down and watch too. I vividly remember him watching the Hoover Dam one and saying "this is really well-written".

When I read the books I somehow interpreted Tywin's description to look exactly like General Chang from Star Trek VI. I know this makes no sense.

A guy with your brains could make out a lot better on Wall Street, Riddler. Do you know what financial quants can pull down? Make enough money and they'll even let you wear the punctuation suit to work.

Anyone else really like the voice performance on the Riddler in Arkham Asylum? They really captured the smug prickishness at the core of the character.

When the season 3 DVD came out in like, 2003 or something, back in the pre-Youtube days when I was in college, practically the first thing I did was rip the land of chocolate sequence into an AVI file so I could easily watch it again and again.

I watched this movie a couple of years ago and while it's pretty awful, I noticed that I was 10x more entertained whenever Shatner was on the screen. Yeah the plot makes no sense and the writing is bad but fuck it, it's Bill chopping wood and riding horses and I dig that.

There's not a lot to add to Oliver's (excellent) write-ups. These aren't anyone's favorite episodes, and if people are anything like me they skip them on their DVDs.

Dowd, where did they establish that? I don't recall that from any TNBA episode.

The best parts of this episode
1) The death scene
2) Bruce playing craps with hobos in an alley next to a garbage can fire on a Saturday morning kids show
3) That adorable, sad-eyed elephant

I got into it because by the time I was like 8 I already thought space and aliens and stuff were awesome, and TNG was on TV all the time. It was a natural fit.