Also he realizes that he wasn’t originally supposed to be with Francine, but they were his reassigned “crappy family”in another episode 

Yeah I’m a big fan of ALL the christmas episodes.

The Rapture Christmas episode is especially fantastic! 

And that was the B-plot to Stan trying to make up for years of being an emotionally distant father by using one of the CIA’s Avatar-style drones to pose as a hot girl and take Steve’s virginity.

I see him as kind of like George Lucas: I think he’s a good ideas guy, but he needs a strong editor to winnow out the immature, stupid ideas, and corral his creativity into something solid.

I kept expecting to read that in the article. MacFarlane is clearly doing a Paul Lynne impression.

I’m surprised there is no mention of Paul Lynde, one of the most obvious inspirations for Roger.

I love the gags where they acknowledge that Roger has multiple personalities and is somehow carrying on fully realized lives and careers.

American Dad is SO much better than Family Guy ever was. And to this day one of my favorite musical moments:

I believe the point of the flashback is to show how Kim is willing to go her own way when she thinks something is wrong, even when it’s someone close to her. I also believe this information is fed to us to make us dread her leaving Jimmy at the end of the episode. Instead, the opposite happens, she bonds ever closer…

Still, it’s nice that she can still find work at her age.

I just learned that his father is a TV producer. The nepotism explains why he can get away with being so awful at his job.

Oh yeah. Netflix has done a lot of evil things for stand-up comedy, like giving multiple specials to Iliza Schlesinger.

A few weeks back in quarantine I kinda just started watching any and all Netflix comedy specials and a lot of them are just really really bad.

Shocked to see Chris D’Elia has been accused of being a comedian.

You didn’t watch the sketch, did you?

Remember when The AV Club would report the news, rather than tell you the specific, exact response you should have to it?

We’ve stopped talking about Chuck, but he still lingers over every action Kim and Jimmy take. They are both in different ways repressing the guilt they feel. The one shared way is that they both blame Howard.  

There’s no need to “buy” any of it. Understanding someone’s (or some fictional character’s, as the case may be) motivations doesn’t mean you personally subscribe to their ethics or condone their behaviour. That’s why I specified earlier that I’m “not saying that Kim’s doing the right thing here”. It’s an interesting…

Yes! I think you can draw a direct parallel between Kim’s relationship with her mother (what we’ve seen of it) and the way she approaches her relationship with Jimmy. I don’t mean she’s drawn to damaged people, more that (1) she’s never subscribed to the idea that someone’s damage is a reason not to love them, and (2)…