Technically not "adult" animation. But yeah, right now the best animated sustenance for adult audiences is coming from shows ostensibly aimed at kids/t(w)eens, with few exceptions.

Snaps for all the observations in this post. I'm interested in what you glean as evidence for Ron James = Peace Master's son, besides their physical similarities, though. Maybe Ron took to magic first, and PM is holding on as tight as he can to prevent it for the rest of his kids?

"HUBRIS!!!"

Cryler is the one true ship.

The Ballad of Big Henry is going in the all-time pantheon of jokes.

Plus, you have Stan using the dipper-copier to make facsimiles of the journal in the premier. Continuity!

Between Cinnamon Bun joining the Fire Kingdom, Peppermint Butler's dark arts becoming more of a public secret, and Lemongrab off Lemongrabbing, it appears as though Princess Bubblegum's inner circle is starting to drift away.

Ay, must have missed that one. Don't think that changes much of my point, though. It shows that PM is still competent and wise enough to be privy to knowledge of "evil" that others in Ooo either don't know about or choose not to contest

A pretty bleak and disturbing episode, but I really liked it overall. Actually, I thought it was one of the best episodes of the season in a while, probably since "Food Chain." It helped that I immediately liked Peacemaster as a character, falling for his Shakespearean-villain-by-way-of-Mr.-Mom charms while also…

Old Man Master?!??!!

Both have long, storied histories of antisemitism that have been shoved under the rug, except for one of them.

Yeah, they got a surprising amount of mileage out of cutting away to that shirt. That and "Did somebody say FOUR hundred dollars??" were the only two times I laughed out loud.

Score pedantry post! This is quickly on its way to becoming one of the winningest comedy seasons in AV club history. Louie seasons 4 and 2 I think lead the tally with 5 solid A's apiece. Overall, Breaking Bad season 5 had 7 solid A's, while season 3 had a stupid 9 A's, and this isn't counting the straight-A's for the…

Right on. It's an strange collision of fantastic talents that really doesn't add up to much, like if a Reese's peanut butter cup somehow tasted like neither chocolate, nor peanut butter, but prunes.

They might not have a central gimmick, but someone always struck me mighty strange about Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Bluegrazz jazz fusion band with the world's greatest living bassist AND a man who possibly literally thinks he is from the future? Sign me up!

That screen got leaked sometime during the first season's very extended airing time, though I forget when. It would have been before the second season started production, though. Speculation about it include: that it's a red herring; that the reveal was true, and was intended to take place near the end of the first…

What an incredible episode of television. Where the first episode might have teetered a bit with its stone-faced mystery scenes, this milks the mystery and links to the show's overarching mythology for all it's worth. It bum-rushes the Wendy/Dipper unrequitemance in a thoroughly satisfying way, while opening up new…

The whole of The Monitor could also be read as a fairly comprehensive band biography

It was pretty great this year. Everyone was very respectful, except for this one douchebag that shouted something unintelligible during the St. Vincent set but he apparently shut up or got shut up, and and there could have been more shade closer to the stages.

Soos barely changing at all as a zombie is a hilarious, subtle character moment.