A lot of these are "what does everyone seem to think is great that you don't?" Which is a fine conversation to have (Caddyshack and Bill Hicks, by the way), but the title suggests a more interesting one: the things that seem like they'd be exactly the thing you like, but you just can't be bothered to drink deeply, the…

SatAM was the cause of my first, and to this point only, attempt to get up at 6:30 on Saturday mornings.

I don't like Jerome.

Here's something that's nice about this season so far: no overarching plot awkwardly shoe-horned in. In many previous, there'll be a perfectly fine self-contained episode, except two-thirds of the way through there'd be some obligatory context-free myth-arc scene, like a giant pink jackrabbit waltzing through,…

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Between this and the oeuvre of J.T. Dawgzone on Adventure Time, I'm glad kids are getting a heads-up about Pick-up culture, but the-opposite-of-glad that they need one.

I'll take trite plotting if it means we never have to deal with Palmer having sex again. The sooner his dick falls off, the better.

How am I only seeing that Key & Peele sketch now?!

They could've shown more of the vampire plot, but it was…too low stakes.

Well it makes sense in-universe that a bar in a regional spaceport would be more diverse than the wilderness of a remote planet. Worldbuilding should feature depth (let's learn something about these people) as well as breadth (let's see of montage of different kinds of people). Plus, STAR WARS has been pretty…

The Vampire gag is an example of one thing I like about this show; the writers know we've seen most plots enough that unless they can put a unique spin on it, it's not worth bothering showing us.

I honestly don't get the Ewok hate. I mean, I get that they might be out-of-place if they'd appeared in, say, Schindler's List or American History X, but this is STAR WARS. We don't mind a giant dog person or a tiny green muppet person or tiny glowy-eyed people or a giant slug gangster or a giant snail person or…

A few I thought of: late 60's/early 70's Fight Club starring Woody Allen and Elvis Presley, or The Matrix with Bruce Lee as Neo, Chuck Norris as Agent Smith, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as Morpheus.

There's worse things than an Abacus, Connie, like, if this were Gravity Falls, a Bell.

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Relatively easy to spot Vigenère passphrase this time, too. I wonder if they got some feedback telling them to ease up.

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Not like someone only and wholly just for that, I'm just saying the idea seems to be cross section of all media, with a natural bias towards the English language, sure, but also media from other countries as well. I think you may be underestimating the breadth of cultural knowledge knowledge a typical reviewer has.

But! The whole point of a site like the AV Club is to congregate reviewers with diverse areas of expertise. So there should be people who know anime ALONG with people who know classic cinema, along with those who know 80's action movies, those who know Korean dramas, Bollywood films, 70's cop shows, music, games, etc.…

To me, it makes just as much sense to talk about Anime no one watches as it does to talk about obscure films from the 20's and 30's that no one watches, and they're not shy about bringing in examples from other countries otherwise. Kill La Kill may not have the caché that Dragonball does, but it's been on American…