Back in the Steven birthday episode, Greg noted that Steven, in his words, "stagnated" somewhere in the 8-10 range. So on one hand, you're right to be weirded out, but on the other, it is deliberate. The creators are purposely writing Steven as arrested and, I suspect, they're going to put Steven in a (likely dire)…

Maybe not at the time, but as Steven grew I'm sure the limited-to-non-existent memory children have of their first few years would become apparent to them.

I had to really sit with this and think. There are a few things I hope to find one day like a vinyl copy of Bad Religion's "Into the Unknown" and some out-of-print Battletech fanclub magazine issues, but when I think about it honestly, the thing that comes to mind is an old t-shirt I had of Delirium from the Sandman…

That's Track & Field, a similar game, but not the same game.

Pleased to finally meet you.

Good luck! Again, the first chunk of episodes are just kind of okay, but once the show comes together, it really comes together.

Yep.

It's pretty out in the open. The Gems are "technically agendered" but they are voiced by women, drawn to look like women and refer to themselves with female pronouns. The show features a straight up couple and one Gem who was romantically involved with another that's now deceased. Early episodes were a little more…

There's a lot (and I mean A LOT) of gay and alternative family structure subtext to Steven Universe. It's barely even subtext at this point, almost text.

My "sang" moment was a small but rewarding one. In episode 14 Amethyst makes an off hand joke about the Dave Guy action figure getting his life together and scoring a cool internship. I laughed so hard at that that I was all, "alright show, I'll stick with you."

The Crystal Gems (Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl) are the surrogate moms for Steven Universe. The fandom tagged Pearl with the name "Bird Mom" because she kind of looks like a bird (big nose, skinny legs). Garnet is "Square Mom" because of her square haircut and Amethyst is alternately called "Fun Mom" or "Sister Mom"…

I'm a Pearl fan, and was trying to think of a play on Bird Mom, her fandom name. When "Bird MILF" popped into my head I thought, "Oh that's terrible!" which of course meant I just HAD to use it. And while I know it can be read in the creepy Rule 34 way, I actually mean it in the MILF=Experienced Badass Woman (see the…

It's definitely a show that grows on you over time. The first 15 or so episodes I was all, "Eh, this is okay. The art is great but I'm not sure why people or so into this." But I kept with it and soon enough I became one of those people whose Disqus avatar is one of the characters and whose Disqus name is a reference…

I was really hoping for an Uncle Andy air guitar performance. Maybe next episode…

The impression I got from Andy was that he himself had been away awhile traveling the world and hadn't been on the farm for some time. Plus, it was his folks barn, so it might have been the kind of thing he'd just used as a storage unit since their passing whenever that was. Still, even if he'd been gone ten years or…

Awww, no "Just Like Anyone?"

Word. Still love that opening riff. "Somebody to Shove" was one of my formative "rock the fuck out" jams that made me the mosh pit fiend I am today.

I'm a fan of You're the Worst, so no REAL argument there (though if you want me to get Sophie's Choice about it, I lean Bojack because of its greater exclusive focus on depression, which resonates with me). But to quibble, FX and HBO are cable, not network (which is NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox and CW). So the point I was…

Two words: Bojack Horseman. Nothing on network TV can touch it.

See Also: Repulica. Not that I think their singles are awful (I love them, in fact), but their first album is one of the best pop albums of the alt-rock era, offering a glimpse of what could have been had the Spice Girls not happened. And yet most people who even remember them in the US dock them off as a one-hit…