The city hall meeting was something we get frustratingly little of in this show: how much has the reality of the situation filtered into the general consciousness? On the other hand, part of what makes the outbreak scary is the information blackout. It's a testament to the eusociality of humans that I think I could…

Well, there's also the fact that 80 years is an insanely long time for a company to control the rights to the words "Happy Birthday to You" in a sing-song voice.

Now, my interpretation was the Time-Testicles (Cronads?) roughing up of Einstein was the common point of departure for all Rick-and-Morty-containing-timelines/universes; that the implication was the passing resemblance between Rick and Einstein was more significant than one being an apotheosis of a stock-character the…

This dimension was the same as the original one, up until the Cronenbergery happened (at which point their continuity split: in one, everything stayed beCronenberged, in the other, Rick miraculously fixed everything, then he and Morty died). Are you saying in the less-than-a-year since the divergence, Coldstone…

Why are we ignoring the elephant in the room? Coldstone Creamery doesn't have rum raisin. They don't even carry raisins, OR rum ice cream in which to mix it. Which is the only way you'd get something like rum raisin there, because that's how they work. I'm not letting this go.

It didn't occur to me until just now that given Apu's time in the B-Sharps it makes perfect sense that he knows the McCartney's from way back.

I'm just saying, you could take one of those big magic rods, stick it just about anywhere, and do all kinds of crazy things. It could light a fire, it could get your motor running, it could do whatever you need done, if you use it right.

Something that becomes increasingly clear with each interaction with Peridot (and this applies to both sides): despite having amazing abilities and an unfathomable depth of knowledge, these people are kind of idiots. There's something very human in the way they're stepping on each others' toes, making it up as they…

With gem technology, it could manifest as many as it needed. Alternately, "Rod With Gem At End" could easily be multifunction, not just a weapon.

Avatar, obviously; I think there's a CG movie from circa 2000 by the name, too, and if you're a fan of that, you're really up shit creek.

I open-mouth-gasped, like, three times.

Oh, shit, "Keystone." As in the rock that allows all the other rocks to hold in place. I just got that. Curse your Talmudic thematic depth, cartoon!

We could use the publicity. Remember back not so long ago when there were moral panics about shows suspected of a Gay Agenda? Teletubbies, Barney, SpongeBob…

Lots of shows with gay characters have difficulty depicting them being physically affectionate. This is not one of them.

Who's your Crying-Breakfast-Friend-sona? I'm Unwieldy Stacked Bags of Old Pancake Batter.

Nathan Fillion and Jason Bateman. Nathan is the too-cool-for-school, confident but actually kind of dumb one, Jason is the competent-but-neurotic one, they have to work together to do some kind of thing.

Yeah, about Yahoo Screen: I've found it skipping over a tad after coming back from commercial. Plus, there's so much website-ephemera around the periphery I've taken to doing the Inspect Element/Delete Node trick to get rid of it.

Kent is several assholes, and myriad other orifices.

Normally pop-cultural knowledge broadens your appreciation of a Simpsons episode; this one, it was kind of a requirement. The rhythms of a show like Laugh-In, for instance, are so alien to the ones we were accustomed to in the 90's and since, if you hadn't grown up with them, I don't think you were going to enjoy…

How the Hell is Ozai not on there?