I don’t know that I can crown Yuki the best ep of Pen15 given how much it sidelined the two girls, but damn that whole show was great.

They can fire him for any reason they want. _Presumably_ it was related to the insurrection, and _presumably_ they didn’t like his answers about whether or why he was there, but who knows.

Yeah, I always tune out a little when an episode has Jimmy. Bob’s Burgers simply doesn’t need irredeemable* villains*.

Thanks for that! I knew I remembered this gPuy as a cop, but I was thinking it was Parks and Rec. Was just about to google him.

I think you’re underselling MQ on Backstory!/Peter. I suppose you could argue they shouldn’t have run the episodes back to back, but they gave over a whole episode to healing the rift after giving a whole episode to all the time up to it. It’s not like the rift between the three was relevant to the dynamics of the…

I agree. S2 as a whole suffered from the lack of a villain. Jamie’s dad and Rupert just weren’t present enough, and it took the whole season to get Nate to that point.

I like your view way better than “happy ending”, and I bet you’re right in what they were going for. I’m not sure they achieved it, because we just haven’t seen enough of her. (Or maybe because it’s just sort of an impossible thing to pull off.)

I think you’re wrong about open disinterest. I think a big issue is that it’s really, really hard to stage legitimate soccer action with actors who were hired because they’re actors. They’ve done a good job of faking it, but they have to keep it to a minimum.

Hell yeah, now you’re talking Danny! 

Could be, or maybe Taco Bell wanted them gone after the first prototype didn’t work out.

I said he was “unbelievably good”. You said his first SB season was “unbelievable”. Are you actually in disagreement?

And an interesting character for a story not just because he (ended up) being unbelievably good, but because he came out of nowhere to get there.

I assume I’m like the dozenth person to post this, but here you go

It’s a company still in startup mode. The pressures and culture are different there than what they ultimately will be if/when it reaches something close to the scope and scale it intends. It’s not uncommon for folks to be pushed out for repeated failures to deliver in that context, unlike large and established places…

I’m not relabeling anyone’s identities. You’re misusing the term Tex Mex. It doesn’t refer to a people, it doesn’t refer to anyone’s identity. It never has. To put a finer point on one of my notes above, this earlier comment from you is just dumb as all hell: “The term itself, Tex-Mex, seems to originate as a term for…

What you’re describing is definitely how it was fifty years ago, where like I said even in places close to Mexico and relatively heavily hispanic, these types of restaurants called themselves Mexican.

It’s actually the case that the most old-school Tex Mex places in Texas just call themselves “Mexican”. That’s what they always called themselves; the Tex Mex tag for food wasn’t coined until the 1970s, as a pejorative and a distinction from “real” Mexican.

Distinct, yes, but it’s weird for me to think of them as “very different”.

This was a fairly pleasant conversation until you went with with “uniquely clueless”. Look, you can use some term in the way some obscure niche uses it, but that’s counter to the goals of communication. Words, by definition, mean what people believe them to mean. The people who actually use the term Tejano the most…

There’s a real gulf coast kinship that slices across a lot of other barriers. I can still make myself tear up thinking of everything the Louisianans in the “cajun navy” did for Houston during Harvey.