The Hufflepuff House reference is kind of a double-burn, as it's TVTRopes-ese for "The Most Boring Faction".

Or send her to, y'know, prison. Regular prison, where they send people who killed people.

This show would do well incorporate more cheesy comic-book tropes, like this episode's Five Bad Band. Compare Mr. Hyde's crew to Magneto's original Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Mastermind, Toad, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch) or the Royal Flush Gang. There's usually The Big Bad, his main minion, a mad scientist,…

Isn't this the one with the (equal-opportunity political-commentary-establishing) exchange: "Didn't you wonder why you were being paid for doing nothing?" "I figured 'cuz the Demmy-crats were back in power."

Isn't this the one with the (equal-opportunity political-commentary-establishing) exchange: "Didn't you wonder why you were being paid for doing nothing?" "I figured 'cuz the Demmy-crats were back in power."

Technically, the Principality of Liechtenstein is a remnant of a Roman polity, so the Empire still hasn't QUITE completely fallen.

We may have to accept that every episode of The Simpsons is a fresh continuity unto itself, as each year Bart sees his latest 10th Christmas erase his last one. That said, the show could still stand to maintain continuity of character traits, like Marge's gambling problem (as they did when visiting the IRS Burger and…

Steven's mushy face reminds me, and it may even be an intentional shout out, of the big Luffy-Usopp reconciliation scene from One Piece and also holy Heck the Reviews are back.

"There’s not much in the way of emotional or philosophical depth"? I don't often say this, but you are completely off the mark this time.

"People of Earth: shhhh" is a wonderful line, and the emaciated lion that's been fed nothing but vegetables is exemplary of the kind of flawed understanding of biology I have actually heard vegan-types demonstrate.

A few years back, some friends and I had a similar idea, though played for even more absurdist horror-comedy; out "only person in the universe" inhabits a universe that is somehow still functioning (he gets email, but only spam); we worked under the conceit that the idea of other people doesn't exist. Feel free to…

There were reboots of He-Man and ThunderCats in the last decade or so, both of which benefited from both modern production values and the general uptick in the level of effort put into serialized American animation, post Gargoyles/Batman:TAS, both of which made the case for Science Fantasy in the 90's.

Cheryl reads Tunt Mall magazine.

If "One Froggy Evening" was made today, the guy would've just videotaped the frog with his phone, posted it on YouTube where it would've joined countless other videos of singing frogs.

There probably should have been separate categories for anime and western animation. Including anime but only having one entry and an honorable mention comes across as rather parochial.

I assumed Gina's flattery of Jake's impression was sarcastic, but then, everything she says sounds sarcastic.

I think they could've stood to hang a bigger lampshade on how no one cares if Archer gets shot. "You've absorbed more lead than a Chinese toy factory without lasting damage. You're basically unkillable."

I honestly wish Penguin success with the club; one thing a LOT of writers fail to grasp is that competence is more compelling than incompetence. Too often protagonists are made thick in an insulting attempt to make them relateable, and antagonists are portrayed as doofuses so we can laugh at them.

Kinda weird no one, especially Abby, deigned to mention the guy that wrote "all men are created equal" was a slaveholder. Not that that should've been the focus or anything, but it's weird they didn't even mention it.

For such a continuity-heavy episode, it was weird to see Manjula in the crowd from years past.