"Even scenes of heated conversation between the human characters tend to
feature a little background dragon slapstick, as though the animators
were fulfilling a mandate to pack every frame with the title
attractions."

This is gonna sound crazy, but I kinda wish there was a story/dialogue editor as well, so you could create a nice, ludicrous story to go along with things. I'm also curious how much of the villain assets are available. Bowser? Koopa Kids? Goddamn Wario?

Really looking forward to Gagroyles! Been watching it in my spare time, and while I don't think its as great as its fans claim it is, it's still is a lot of fun. Matt Bluestone is MY MAN.

Capitol Critters, Fish Police, Family Dog, Father of the Pride. All of them were terrible, although FotP at least tried. Kinda.

The next time we see Art, he'll be in Panama drinking martinis, where we see a flashback to that scene of him throwing up his hands saying, "Yo fuck this shit". (It's what I would've done.)

It always seemed to me that MS was better on the Kinect taking off not through developers making games for it, but for the social media and apps to take advantage of it. The whole thing about talking to your machine to boot up Netflix, or swiping through you library with your hand - it put a gamble on the "wave of the…

Is a show about an upper-class black family REALLY a reach? My Wife and Kids ran for 5 seasons and had 122 episodes, which sounds like a solid run. Similar to The Bernie Mac Show.

Jim Norton's "Yuck" last night on Louie is fascinating, considering the week before he admitted to masturbating with a dildo.

"Widen to reveal" gags are always great, so happy live-action shows are starting to do them now, even though they tend to be hard to pull off.

The story of Bronies began as a huge in-joke. Cartoonbrew wrote an troll-ish article that MLP signaled the end of creator-driven cartoons - an audacious and poorly-thought out "FOC".

Steven Universe functions in various forms of disconnect. The Gems don't connect to the humans, Steven struggles to connect to various characters, the town is disconnected from the craziness around them - even Onion works on a silent disconnect from the people around him.

Hey, I saw an episode of Krypto! Randomly. It had a bit of typical young-kids cheesy comedy but I think it wasn't too bad. Still a better "Superman" than the one in Man of Steel.

My favorite moment was the Jack Bauer CONFIRMED KILL LIST. I laughed my ass off, Jack has literally killed the total population of a small town by now.

Odd everyone is saying "FUCK BERT." I found his outburst mean-spirited but necessary, whether Don had a good idea or not. Don technically isn't supposed to be there, let alone burst in with random ideas after coming in with a very specific contract. The thing was, everything IS fine without him. Remember also that…

That whole sequence from the spraying to the rimshot was surprisingly well-done and edited. Family Guy usually just goes for a long, annoying repetition of a single gag, but they actually did different visual beats and escalated the moment. This show is a mess but I'll give credit when its due.

Between this change and Mr. Yap, it kinda feels like the show is retconning some of its one-off adult characters. Or I wonder if they're less characters and more "templates" of characters, people with a specific viewpoint but are pretty much thrust into whatever role is needed for the plot.

The structure of Review blows my mind. It's like… it's like this terrifyingly funny mix between the concept of Animaniacs by way of the movie Stay Tuned. The line between the show and "the show" isn't just blurred, it's nonexistent. I wasn't sure if Forrest's wife even knew about the show "Review" until the finale.…

If any cartoon would work via digital networks, Dan Vs. would be one of them. It didn't even fit the Hub's branding, but it would definitely work on Hulu or Netflix.

Dan Vs. being nominated is really odd, it hasn't had new episodes in a year. And it's pretty funny.

I think that's kind of the point, though. The Gems are massively mysterious, and we're kinda learning about them through Steven's viewpoint. As far as Steven (and by proxy, the audience) is concerned, the Gems are simply (parental) forces through which Steven learns about his life and maturation. It's focused on…