Since we could all use some cheering up, tomorrow's and next week's episodes of Nathan for You are on torrent sites now. Always a treat.

The latter is definitely far worse for me. I can at least stomach Hannibal knowing that it's the closest it gets to art in television form.

I can barely even watch Hannibal without almost vomiting. I think I'll be giving this show a pass, in this case.

With Stan's "Fully Clothed Women" magazines, and now Dippers internet history, that makes one porn joke per episode thus far. This had better be a recurring thing.

I'm already really not a fan of high fantasy, but I always thought the LOTR movies took themselves too seriously for their own good. The more cartoonish nature of the Hobbit movies fits the story much better in my eyes and results in a more even balance.

Is it? I played the first three and then got bored halfway through the 4th a couple of years ago and never finished it.

I like either Hobbit movie better than any LOTR movie. So… that.

Yeah, like I said, my opinion's a weird one. I marathoned all of seasons 1-7 and then only watched 8 and 9 live, so I don't really know how that affected my opinion. I haven't really revisited season 8, but somehow I managed to enjoy it the first time through for all its faults (e.g. Robert California was an absolute…

I have a weird opinion of Office seasons. I see a slight decline in seasons 6 and 7, which I think churned out a series of ok episodes and a handful of very good ones, and my opinion on those seasons is nowhere near as low as a lot of peoples' (I would never say the show was bad during those times). I liked season 8 a…

Also, add in the fact that the episode actually had some legitimate dramatic stakes and some pretty terrifying imagery (that Dipper/Mabel spider thing… yeesh). This episode went darker than the show ever has before and it absolutely paid off.

Probably. Into the Bunker is probably in my top three episodes of the series so far.

For some reason, the season 5 DVD doesn't include hardcoded subtitles for either the Dean's French thoughts or for Abed's misappropriated sign language. That's going to make a lot of first-time watchers miss out on arguably the best jokes of those respective episodes.

During the Intro to Teaching commentary, Annie's A- on her project elicits Harmon's incredulity that Felt Surrogacy got that same grade. Todd's never gonna live that one down.

They cite a few reasons for getting off track, such as dealing with both Donald's and Chevy's departures with only 13 episodes to work with. Harmon and McKenna claim that a 22 episode season would've obviously helped them balance a lot better, and even get in a bunch more episodes of Jeff being a teacher (a plot point…

Harmon also admits in the commentary that by the end of the season, he had really lost his grasp on the tone that they were trying to establish for the season in Repilot, calling the season finale more of a live-action cartoon. Good to know that he's at least aware of that going into season 6.

Yeah, which is why his Repilot cameo had to be shot away from the set itself. I don't think he could come back even if they wanted to write him back in, unless they just make Holo-Pierce a new main character.

I don't think I'd like that. As great as it would be to have Pierce back, I think bringing him back like that would really cheapen the whole concept behind Troy's departure, and all of Cooperative Polygraphy, really. I'm hoping that they'll be able to bring Pierce back if they end up doing a flashback movie or…

According to the Repilot DVD commentary, Chevy really wanted to come back to the show once Harmon was back, and was upset to see Pierce killed off. Interesting.

"Advanced Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" - Harmon and others

I just saw it too, pretty much the same thoughts as you. As for the villain problem, I'm willing to give parts of it a pass for now until we see how Thanos's whole thing plays out in later movies.