COME ON!

That would definitely be their style.

That’s what I think.

I wonder what their refund policy is?

“Blow up the door!” .... “No, wait, not like that!”

Wooden? It’s his looseness that always makes me laugh even in dumb skits he’s in.

Ninjas aren’t known for their follow through, apparently.

I read them as a false flash-forward, a vision of what he’s ultimately letting go by accepting his place in Toranaga’s retinue.

Indeed. The Council of Regents were either too greedy or too afraid of losing their status to go against Ishido, until it became apparent that he’d lost favor with Lady Ochiba and the heir.

On the other hand, the linear flow of time.

I dunno, in my opinion he was corpsing a bit too much in the 2000s.

I would put both Strong and Morgan in the top 10 ahead of Samberg and Armisen. Parnell would’ve been higher, too.

Beck Bennett, Alex Moffat and Kyle Mooney were all solid yet underrated cast members when they were on. And Beck Bennett should be included just for his portion of the Eddie Murphy monologue alone.

I truly loved the moment when Blackthorn threatened seppuku. He was starting to embrace Japanese approaches to death and loyalty and almost had it right but Toranaga still brushed him off as acting foolish. He wasn’t the White Saviour who understood the hosts’ culture better than they did, just a guy who was prepared…

as with ep 3, i will once again shout out that this episode was written by Emily Yoshida, an AV Club alum from the site’s heyday

Watched it this weekend. In addition to what everyone else said, it also makes more sense in the context of the movie, which takes place in a surreal, heightened version of our reality. Everyone totally buys that these two dorks spent their summer in juvie, fighting people to the death every night. The star…

In fairness I was going for the meme over scientific accuracy, but yes, point taken. 

Have you never heard the idea that you should take a date to a horror movie? It’s all about misattribution of arousal. In fact, the mechanism of misattribution of arousal and has been well studied in psychology over the past 40+ years.

AFAIK The plan is basically:

i imagine it’s a good way to get up close and sweaty with their fellow classmates. they’re teenagers, they’re supposed to be stupid. makes sense the plan wouldn’t be entirely baked.