Am I doing… this?!

Some more quick animation superlatives to consider from mid-2014 to present:

Joining the "only one animation mention?" gripe train to throw some coal into the furnaces of the Steven Universe hype train. "Alone Together" was the best thing to air on television this year.

No Renaissance Pictures mentions? The Hercules intro was my favorite mouthful-intro, even in its abbrevated state (which I unfortunately can't find anywhere, but here's the full clip from the first season): https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Does that make Yellow Diamond the Beeper King of Homeworld?

I'll vocalize my voice by saying I'm down for this too! Dunno if Eric has time manhours in him, but it would be absolutely rad to read some analysis on great eps like "Mirror Gem/Ocean Gem," "On the Run," "Warp Tour," "Island Adventure," okay I'm just naming all the episodes.

Worried that too many Amethyst regenerations are going to lower the stakes? Whaddya want, she's scrappy!

I love, love the inclusion of Planting Seeds in that list. Fantastic choice, one of the best rock songs from the last decade. It's hard to fuck with any choices in a feature like this, for a band as incredibly consistent as Built to Spill, but here's my list of absences and alternates, if we were to extend this to a…

Peter Pescadero, Lenny DeStefano AND Ron all in the same episode?! That's some A-List attendance from my favorite C-List Bob's Burgers characters.

Holy shit that closing montage was intense. And the very last shot, as Reagan talks about things "coming into focus," with Phillip fading into the background, getting smaller, and Elizabeth just towering over everything, appearing stark as day and filling over half the frame. It speaks volumes about where the two of…

Not any longer, I went to Tufts and lived very close to campus during those brief months post-graduation before delocating to Cambridge and, eventually, Chicago.

I'm not usually the guy who would do that, and I actually don't remember the peanut butter incident. Plus, he told me about the peanut butter over a year after I had moved out, and if there were any other issues he took with me (and I don't doubt there weren't) he continues to leave them unarticulated. So the details…

Cool Story, Dangus:

Every time I see something new by Hertzfeldt or revisit one of his old pieces, I make a point of introducing it to at least five other people. I've stood by my opinion that he's one of the great living minds in animation, or otherwise, and every new piece he makes only strengthens my belief.

STILL LOVE YOU HOMAR

The scene beforehand where he smashes the TV is so sitcommy you could practically hear the laugh track.

Absolutely phenomenal. I am sure the Jennings wouldn't have expected Paige to immediately accept them upon learning the truth, but they didn't seem to anticipate the truth would make her their prisoner. The clash of sharpening knives at the end doesn't just serve Stan's head on a platter, it also keeps Paige silent.…

Are mail robots electric? Pretty much everyone and everything seems to have a robotic element this week, or their machinistic rule-following natures called into question. Enough can't be said about the devastating patience of the central scene between Betty and Elizabeth, but I want to also comment on the new…

Modest Mouse was one of the first bands I ever loved, if not THE very first. The guitar tones pre-Good News are enough to send me back into my shivery, sweaty high school ball of nerves. It's a little frustrating, thinking of the band now, and how I've lost the ability to care at all about new music they release. I…

Episode one: Trust no one.