I have no idea what you're talking about either. How is the adjective "psuedo-literary" a "level of analysis"? It's just a word.

There's also evidence in the form of his absence. It's notable that the much-discussed weakness of recent episodes coincided with a persistent lack of DiMaggio.

Erm… yes.

He didn't want to be a brick in a wall, he wanted to be a brick in a wall as it falls down.

Does anybody know the reason for the weird scheduling of this season?

Most of the Flame Princess ones have been great, but The Red Throne was one of the worst episodes in the show so far.

Yeah, I laughed aloud at "Your mental image of those events is going to be different than my mental image of those events, even though they’re both informed by the same descriptions", which reached an obliviously self-satirising level of pseudo-literary claptrap. There's nothing at all in the episode to suggest that…

More likely it was another meta-joke. The show is indeed a dream - Pen Ward's dream.

He has a severe dislike of his sibling GMO which he just won't shut up about at dinner parties.

This was ridiculously good. Quite possibly the best episode ever. Welcome back, Adventure Time. A+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

A fantastic germ of an idea which was not successfully nurtured into a fantastic story.

The really funny reviews are the ones where he also completely misses the obvious and objective point of the episode.
Like the Lemonhope one, which he gave a lengthy (pseudo-) literary analysis of without realising that Phannel Boxingday was Princess Bubblegum.

I've never read Lovecraft but I saw the Lovecraft reference.

You're talking to the reviewer who wrote an extensive literary analysis of the Lemonhope episode without realising that Phannel Boxingday was Princess Bubblegum.

"The fact that the show didn’t experience any sort of dip following Ward’s self-mandated demotion is a testament to the strength of the infrastructure built by Ward and his esteemed team of collaborator"
What. Seriously? Like… half of the commenters here (myself one of them) have been talking and wondering about the…

Yeah I don't get how that gels with the "further eye" bit.

Weird. I found the "Aaa" name pretty funny.

I couldn't tell if it was intentionally bad or unintentionally bad: but either way, it was still bad.

Nope, totally agree with you. For me it was plain bad to the extent that I was explicitly thinking while watching it, "this is bad". It felt totally phoned in, which I can only say that for at most one or two other AT episodes.

I didn't like the episode either, but dismissing any episode simply because it doesn't contribute to the "mythology" is missing almost the whole point of the show. I mean… did you also "tune out" of awesome episodes like "Card Wars"?