She looked FINE. Like... wow.

I definitely feel the way outlined in this review for most modern-day episodes, absolutely. But I didn’t find this week’s that bad. It had a few really good little jokes and I feel like the animation looks a lot less digital this season. It wasn’t a GREAT episode, but there have been absolutely dreadful recent…

I wonder if Chris Redd would have done a better job. Kenan isn’t particularly known for his impressions.

I think the best part of this was the world-building. The city is so cool and unique. There are so many characters and plot points, and some of them are mentioned only once or twice quickly and then dropped.. but it’s fun regardless! I really enjoyed the cheese (probably directly from the manga) and the action scenes.…

Yes. They don’t directly show what happens to the dog, but absolutely.

This part of WU really surprised me. SNL is supposed to take the piss out of big business, not blindly support them like Jost’s segment. If I didn’t know any better I’d think there were higher-ups at NBC or Comcast that had business ties with Amazon...

It doesn’t sound anything like Schumer, either. I’m just not sure what they’re going for.

I know Seth has said he wants this to be ‘optimistic’ sci-fi, but man, I sure felt bummed out at this ending. One Moclan shamed for the rest of his life, Bortus and Klyden visibly upset at each other, Kelly’s single now, Talla in tears. I don’t think the music in the final scene matched the mood at all, either.

What a ... strange ... episode. I liked the offbeat, bizarre direction they went with a lot of sketches, but a lot of them didn’t land. The audience was SO quiet in the parents’ phone call sketch. Oh, and the rare cue card sighting in the restaurant bit. That makes a couple weird camera framing mistakes - did they…

I’m with you. She’s good at what she’s good at - I really enjoyed her Elizabeth Warren last week - but I’m tired of her playing all the 2nd-rate GOP guys, especially how oversaturated she was constantly playing Jeff Sessions not that long ago. They have a big cast, surely somebody else can be given opportunities.

Can we not talk about how AWFUL the episode was, though? I’m all for well-done satire (especially with Trump, which is rare but some shows like The President Show have taken it in great directions), though arguably Family Guy has sailed that ship years ago. But this was lazy even by modern FG standards. A couple of…

While MOST Japanese characters are pronounced as one distinct syllable, if there’s a “su” in there, you can usually drop most of the “u” sound and combine it with the next character as one syllable. I think.

I liked this better than last week’s Grandpa story. There were a few really clever one-liners (the rollercoaster romance show was really great, even if the family eating in front of the TV was horribly out-of-place). It wasn’t a GREAT episode, but I don’t remember the last modern-day Simpsons that was, so there’s that.

Only this episode is a Season 1 holdover. The first episode of Season 2 was indeed meant to be the first episode of season 2.

I’ll argue for the sake of convenience, that the shuttle engines could only handle a certain weight, so there could be no more taken for that reason.

It was amazing. I’m definitely going to see it again, just to try to catch everything I missed the first time. The animation is so beautiful and it actually makes me sad that so many 3D CGI movies look so generic now in comparison.

> what was up with the mixing

Meh, I didn’t find this episode much worse than any this season. About the same for me, a B- or C+. The audience didn’t seem into some of the jokes for some reason - there was actually some really clever writing in the Mueller song but no audience reaction.

Gene’s song had me doubled over in laughter. I’m so used to Bob’s putting in silly montage songs, or silly parody songs (but mostly in the credits). For him to just belt out an actual produced, existing song like that was super-unexpected... has that even happened in the series before?

It was especially gregarious this week. The closeups of Seth, looking away from his fellow sketch actor, ABOVE the camera, his eyes following the lines... Maybe there were last-minute rewrites?