Batman TAS introduced kid-me to the entire concept of a sympathetic villain, and it blew my mind.

Going back to rewatch the series from the beginning gives you a hindsight gutpunch in the first episode-

I love that The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings messes with your expectations. First you think it's going to be about Fry and Bender switching hands, then about Fry trying to get his own back from the Devil, then it goes in a completely different direction.
Come to think of it, are there any other stories about…

That explains all those jars of Ringo's blood.

If we can extend the theme to same names within works, I don't remember much about the 1930s novel The Day of the Locust except being continuously distracted by the fact that a major character's name was Homer Simpson.

"Monkeys aren't donkeys! Quit messing with my head!"

I work in a smallish town in Japan, and part of my job is to do interpretation when somebody needs it. The times I've needed to do this have all been for people for whom English isn't their first language, and my Japanese is, to put it gently, far from perfect. So when I was trying to translate for a Pakistani person…

I just want to share Japanese Deadpool, because I was so happy that it exists. And that he uses "ore-chan."

I blame Spec Ops: The Line for my inability to shut up about Spec Ops: The Line.

Incidentally, Fox News' viewerbase also tends to keep attacking for two or three more waves than feels really necessary.

Going by GIS, those are both dang nice-looking for SNES. Thanks for the recs! It's always cool to find good old games that I missed back in the day.

Yeah, that's probably true, too.

O'Neill was an unexpected MVP. I love his song so much.

The way each era has its own playing style to fit its story is so damn creative and cool. I really wondered why it never got a US release… At least until I got to the part where, if I understood and remember correctly, there was a lady in a spaceship keeping her boyfriend's corpse in her bed. Then I thought, oh.…

It's such a weird, wonderful game. I found the Super Famicom cart cheap at a convention, and it's a hell of a way to practice Japanese. Like when I ran into the phrase "液体人間" in the near future chapter and thought, "'Liquid humans'? I must be getting that completely wrong…"

Don't know if it counts since it never got a US release, but in the SNES RPG Live a Live, there was a global fighting tournament segment where the US was represented by noted wrestler Max Morgan.

I would love to see Hideo Kojima and Suda51collaborate on something, but I am pretty sure they would just build a pillow fort and giggle.

Better than the one about wrecking the paint job on a jet plane, I Wanna Mar a Harrier .

I was 100% expecting Soso's attempt at a singalong to end in people throwing things at her. I love that they actually did it.

I wish I could say I'm surprised.