I still blame some AV Club commenter for linking me to Sam Hyde’s (funny if you incorrectly assume he’s a reasonable human being) fake TED Talk video and therefore requiring me to care when he was outed as a scumbag.

I don’t trust anyone who prefers RPG to at least the second Paper Mario (although I’m also really partial to Super Paper Mario, and if the first one fails to compete it’s only because in retrospect TTYD was a better take on the Paper approach so you might prefer RPG’s one-off idea more).

Guess we’re both out spreading smiles abroad.

Glad to see Harmon looking towards my favorite Rick And Morty episode for future inspiration. “Look Who’s Purging Now” is a joy from start to finish, even without a, say, “come watch TV” moment (although I think the Tony Toni Toné proletariat uprising sequence gets close in its own way).

I’m sure the “wait does B.o.B. actually think airplanes are shooting stars” joke was already made multiple times several news cycles ago, but I’m going to lay claim on being the first one to do it in this specific comments section.

The main thing that struck me about this show during the tactical orbital bombardment of commercials they were doing a few weeks back is how bizarrely *backwards* its main selling point feels - like, hasn’t “savant professional with a neurological condition that makes them socially prickly and/or morally complex” been…

I mean, it’s true, but you shouldn’t say it.

Was always partial to “We’re Brothers Forever”, myself:

Wasn’t the story leading up to this that ABC had spent almost all of their budget for the judges on getting Perry, so most of the compensation for someone like Bryan would have to come from lucrative Disney-affiliated programming deals? What ended up coming of that?

Look, I’m just impressed the words “gets smarter” are involved here. Baby steps.

*wriggles eyebrows, but, like, in a judgmental way*

We complain about Kinja but all it really did was move CancerAIDS to a nicer office

C’mon, there’s “Milkshake Duck”, and then there’s being outed for sexual assault the day after you release an accidental split LP with Beyonce.

Well, if there was a director who had to be - just picking a random metaphor here - subsumed into the writhing, fleshy mass of this project, I suppose Waititi is a pretty good choice.

Wow, that’s further along that I’d thought.

Will do! Thanks.

AJ, is there a place any of us could go to look at the original (ie, the site this was posted to back in the day)? That seems like the logical endpoint of a story like this and I was surprised when the article didn’t have it.

Can that one be based on me? I’ll write some appropriately sexy comments so there’ll be a paper trail if you need one.

Well, if nothing else, this article put me on the lookout for any future, potentially-good AJ Via (or whatever he calls himself now) project. Maybe this is the hot new way to get an audience!