“I also didn’t play sports. Sports is a bloodless rehearsal of confrontation, and everyone shakes hands or high fives or fist bumps at the end to show that everything is okay. So, consequently, I had no basic training—even if I could understand it rationally, I had no basic training—that even the simplest of…

A person can definitely be both a nerd and an asshole as “Gamergate” showed, as the too intense RICK AND MORTY fans show, and many other examples. Never in my post did I say those two things were incompatible. I don’t perceive Paul, especially in Season 1, as an asshole. Did he try and force change on her? Sometimes,…

Maybe it was those squirrels that run the world from RICK AND MORTY and she was worried about them being better leaders than Trump.

“Kellyanne! If you talk to us we’ll grant you wishes and give you candy! You’d like that much better than this wouldn’t you?”

I appreciated how Stan has just accepted being called “Billy” by his grandpa and I especially liked his confrontation with Randy at dinner and Randy’s subsequent “guilt-trip” to see his dad.
“Well, its time we get going.”
“You’ve only been here ten minutes.”
Those scenes really resonated with me. This episode terrified…

DS9 DID handle organized religion very well using the Bajorans for the most part. You’re absolutely right. It was clearly a substitute for human religious issues and had a variety of aspects on it. Good call.

Never said it had to be one of the Abrahamic faiths. That’s interesting on it being a Pagan in that series you…

Really fun episode! Looking forward to Ralph and hope they’ll make him at least a good detective on the show as he is in the comics, though based on the bumper/preview for next week, it doesn’t look like they’re going that way.

Rule for Superheroes: Never bring the severed head of your defeated robot enemy into your…

I can see some ads lasting a long time. But all those little details about Avis (and Hertz) just were a bit too much.

Yeah, MacFarlanes like that. He’s made it perfectly clear and he’s never subtle about it. Hence my saying in my post how his distaste “shines through.” We’re both right on this. Its how he feels and he has the platforms to say what he wants. It is what it is.

 Someone posted what must have been a picture from BABYLON…

Yes, there are brands that last a long time, that were started hundreds of years ago that we still have today. Its not totally inconceivable. But, BUT, Gordon easily quoting from its advertisements four-HUNDRED years later, is still a stretch to me. Also, without Googling it, quote a Wells-Fargo ad slogan from more…

“Jaywalking” was staged. I saw them do it when I worked at Universal Studios Hollywood out on CityWalk—I worked there over 5 years and saw it shot multiple times. They’d tell people to answer wrong. Sometimes they’d find a real ignoramus, but often, they’d just stage it.

In general, I agree with you and others bringing this up. There’s lots of people who know more about pop culture and their favorite shows/movies but don’t recognize references or allegory to them from real life events in history or older works of art. I’ve seen it over and over and there’s a good point made about them…

Same here. But this seemed like too big a stretch. Rental car companies names and slogans 400 years in the future? It only makes sense to me IF both companies are still in business and using the same slogans in the ORVILLE’s place and time.

Sure. But, rental car company slogans? That’s barely pop culture. That’s advertising/business history. It just seems like a REALLY big stretch.

I’ve encountered a few people like that before. But rental car companies and their advertising slogans 400+ years in the future? That’s a really big stretch, UNLESS, as I said in my first paragraph, they’re still in business on Earth in that time period. There’s lots of people who know more about pop culture than…

I said exactly that in the last sentence of my first paragraph.

“I guess Avis and Hertz are still in business on Earth that far into the future renting....space cars?”  

That’s why I have issues with it.

Great points! Hope it will be a story point down the road. Maybe that kids parents hold some powerful positions in Krill society. We’ll see.

A few were ok, but mostly I was bothered by the idea that he knew what Avis and Hertz were, but was completely stumped by all those questions he was asked on the stand about bigger, more important things on his home planet just two episodes back. An hour more of jokes like that, and I would turn it off. Ugh.

None of my points are technological questions. The “how fast can the Enterprise go?” thing isn’t really equivalent.

At least on STAR TREK they were kind of consistent on that there were some things from Earths past history and culture some crew members were familiar with, and other things they weren’t too familiar…

My main issue with the show is this anachronism of knowing pop culture from the 20th and 21st century, but not other things—as Gordon proved on the stand when he had no idea what the capital of the “old United States” was. That sort of thing drives me nuts. He doesn’t know that, but he knows the names of several…

I’m thinking that’s it.