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It's been said 78 times already but it's worth a 79th: Tony Leung is hot and you take that back.

BMO fucks with the gender binary and it rules.

My adoration of brackets branches from an almost strictly Pavlovian desire to rank everything in my life, from grandparents to restaurant-prepared chicken soup, and you're on the money with that contextual hierarchy deal. I'm just saying that strict word counts kind of deflate the satire of an event like this. When…

Yes, I've seen Ozymandias and yes, I'd choose Rixty over it. No slight against Ozy though. It's still my pick for runner-up, out of all the episodes chosen for this bracket.

That's good, at least. It's a shame it couldn't be that accommodating from the start, especially since the more striking dichotomies between episodes at the very beginning often boils down to seemingly more arbitrary decisions when you slice the word count in half. But since you imply that circumstances beyond your…

This episode has been teaching me not to fear the red tint. They've been shaking up their formula so much without changing it completely that I am always pleasantly, sometimes uproariously, surprised, even though I often know exactly what to expect.

I'm hoping this is the path they take with it. It wouldn't be too difficult to keep Pops out of the action, and the eventual deprogramming of Nature Pops is a great opportunity if they get the conceit right.

O_O Is this really the end of Pops???

Well, my bracket's busted.

RIP Greedy Berry Guard. All he wanted was that sweet dosh, and diamond skulls.

YEAR OF THE RIGBY! Also, "Anything for Thomas." I hope we see more of dour, Thomas-respecting Cody (Cody?) in the future.

This was an amazing slice of sensations. Like a big decadent pie for all the senses. Not gettin' the hate for time one. I read the hate, I see that you're hating it, but nah, just not understanding all that. This was just so delightful.

Hey, that was really funny! I always imagined Toby Jones was the same charming gremlin from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy moonlighting as a storyboarder

But Finn did not make a choice here. He kissed LSP but turned her down when she tried to force an escalation, and though there's a whole heaping load of "grey area" (agreeing with Knight of Cups here), Finn's displeasure and consignment of the experience to the Vault strongly suggests a degree of coercion was used by…

I still think the whole CJ-Mordecai long-term conflict arc is just a distractoin. This was supposed to be the Year of the Rigby, damnit!

This could be Regular Show's "Last Exit to Springfield." It was everything a Regular Show episode is at its best, at its best. The crazy, hilarious supporting character; the blunt, hilarious emotional confrontation; naturalistic conflict rooted in realism and imagined in absurdism; the series of escalations and…

EILEEN EPISODE! BOUT DAMN TIME!

Doing a catch-up of the last few episodes and I love this write-up. You really tap into a lot of the subtler character moments that slipped right by me, like when Mordecai can't say that he's actually an artist. That's some deep, uncomfortable truthness right there.

I think mileage is gonna vary a good bit on this one. It's true that all of the characters in this one are just sketches, but I greatly enjoyed it because I thought they were used very well to play up the tone and setting. Every bit of the old-fashioned circus was right on the nose, right down to the tiny mustachioed…