It was a joke to the writers and to the audience—was it meant to be a joke to Peter? That I'm not sure of. Can't read the writers' intent behind his desperation. Regardless, the reviewer's point was that some things (like pedophilia) don't really work as jokes.

Hell yeah, I have been feeling SO Slytherin lately.

Because in context, Peter was saying that if someone was trying to set him up with a toddler [in a tiara], he would still date this person. Which is creepy as heck.

One of mine involving the Goths: Bella, Mortimer's missing wife, appeared in Strangetown. The only people she would show herself to were these two recent college graduates who were based on me and my boyfriend at the time. So I began the slow work of getting "us" to be friends with her. She was not an easy person to…

I liked the S2 townies—some of them, anyway. Strangeville's. And some of the college characters. One character had an alien baby, and then there was a college student alien, a whole family of aliens and half-aliens, and another one of 4 roommates, two of whom were aliens. So my goal was basically to breed as many more…

Most of the people I know who haven't struggled with anything major THINK they have. They find ways to work themselves into these mainstream narratives in one way or another, so they can feel like the heroes of their worlds instead of Boring Extra #2 or Villain's Minion. So, if they were raised in a normal…

I wish he had done the flashback to "Dog Liver Times 51!" That's one of my favorite Jake moments.

My favorite on Summer Sun is "Winter a-Go-go." It's perfect

I have to stand up for Popular Songs for the same reason you're standing for …And Then Nothing…: "If It's True" is the first-dance song my fiancé and I have chosen.

I watched a lot of Christmas movies growing up (my favorite was Angela Lansbury's Mrs. Santa Claus, which I cannot seem to find anywhere). Lately, though, my "tradition" is basically holing up in my parents' laundry room as soon as I arrive at their house and listening to the Soundtrack to Rent and various other…

Murphy's been doing this for years, at least since 2009 when Glee started. SO many Glee plotlines were Popular retreads: the early teen marriage (carried out in Popular, not in Glee), the two students who don't get along whose parents end up getting married and then they need to live together, the pregnancy scares (1…

By the way, hasn't the Bechdel test been passed about fifty times in this season alone?
Yep. Korra and Katara, Korra and Toph, Korra and Asami in letter form, Ikki and Jinora, Opal and Jinora, Korra and Kuvira. I might be missing some, but there's a LOT of focus on female relationships in this show, and most of the…

That's what I thought of her upon rewatching. The thought that Jess eventually shaped up because he lived in a house with a Lorelai amuses me.

That's actually a fascinating way to look at it.

Yep. I thought for sure that either the relationship would end or the dude would stay away from Marnie (and choose Clementine).
Unless he's now experimenting with an open relationship or lying to Clementine about the nature of his relationship with Marine, I don't see how this works.

I thought for sure Marnie's dude would break up with Clementine. Ugh. I was hopeful that Marnie would finally get a decent relationship.

There's a part of me that really doesn't want to see that, though. The last time, it was a mad scramble to figure out if they were going to go into storage or the daycare or what…repeating the whole process would be depressing.

Shudder. I wasn't really a fan of 3, because it seemed to be a lot of constantly trying to escape one thing or another. But that scene was terrifying and brutal, and watching it as a kid would have scared me shitless.

I love that movie so much.

Dory's an interesting case, because she was originally written as male until Ellen DeGeneres auditioned, and then they decided she could be female. So that shows that the Pixar people are relatively open minded about these things. Yet they still default to "boy" for a lot of characters who, like Dory, could just as…