I assumed this whole thing was preparation for his upcoming role as father who is incredibly embarrassed by his son's rap career.

Mirth of a Nation
Mandible Hollow Floss
Ear-rehearsable
I Visit Your Fave
The Bert Locker

End of an era, man. End of an era.

It does seem like a bit of a shit-stir for its own sake, but then again, this is Calvin and Hobbes. C&H gets to be the exception to a lot of rules, as far as I'm concerned.

People, please!

Hey, his mom was at LEAST exceeds expectations.

Amateur!

Putting Daniel in the AV room? Giving Lindsay some perspective about her education and options (not to mention, that Dead album)? Helping Sam work through the 'definition of cool'? When he catches the guys with pot, he doesn't blow up, he talks to them.

Eh, compared to a lot of hippies, I think Mr. Rosso averages out to be a pretty cool guy. You can fault him for trying to be 'hip' with the young folk, but by the end of the series, he proves to be a pretty clear-headed guy, even if he isn't living the dream.

"By conflating a self-defense assault on a would-be rapist to the
indiscriminate murders of a nomadic thief, the filmmaker risks creating a
false equivalency"

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I'm really glad we've reached a point as a society where you're allowed to like Phil Collins again.  I grew up enjoying him (I still think the Tarzan soundtrack is one of the most engaging, if weird, things Disney put out in that era) because my dad did, and I'd never heard all the vitriol people had thrown against…

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Eh, Futurama did it well enough (Hermes is Jamaican, and therefore an expert on limbo and frequent lover of the Hanover Clover.  Amy is Asian and finds her way into all manner of fetish-friendly futurewear).

Ken is one of the secret heroes in the show.  I wish he'd gotten more episodes, but that might just be because I'm the only person alive who still likes Seth Rogen.

I think you could make a similar argument for some of the other side characters, especially among the geeks' network.  Gordon Crisp is an outcast in a very unsexy mold, but he's on good terms with himself as a human being and knows how to minimize or at least cope with whatever alienation the world wants to throw at…

In his defense, the TNG reunion on Family Guy was pretty great.  That whole bit about sharing custody of the pencil eraser still gets me.

No, no, I can understand the delay.

I'd watch it as a series if Hong and Miller were escaped mental patients who thought they were actually Reynolds and Bridges-type characters.  Every week they could sort of delusionally fall into the lives of some colorful characters under the impression that there's a mystery to be solved.  Maybe a wacky talking dog…

With regards to your last paragraph, the original crew movies were surprisingly cerebral, though that's part and parcel a matter of their own special effects restrictions at the time.  You couldn't exactly have Ricardo Montelban jumping around like Cumberbatch does here.  And the showdown between the Enterprise and…