It's like there's another show inside this one, a sad show about a sad girl named Alex, and every once in a while they decide to do half an episode of that show. Then they decide it's too intense and run away.

There was an app called intoNow, which could ID shows and episodes from the audio of your phone, with a combination of monitoring dozens of live TV channels and a huge database. Supposedly Shazam will do that as well now, but it almost never works when I try it.

Only in the sense that in the initial wide shot, I thought it was him.

Usually I hear the guest voice and can't place it until the credits. Not a problem this time, to say the least.

Wha — there's free strudel? WHERE?

It's not just showing him in the gas chamber; it's showing him dying and, most amazingly, this is presented as a good solution to the problem that he's figured out that Superman is Clark Kent! (Superman doesn't kill, but he's part of a justice system that does.)

And jeez, that one has the darkest ending I've ever seen on what was, literally, a Saturday morning cartoon.

GoT? Wha? Sword in the Stone, please.

MUSIC THE CLOSED CAPTIONING RECOGNIZES: The "Silicon Valley" theme.
MUSIC THE CLOSED CAPTIONING DOES NOT RECOGNIZE: The theme from Zorba the Greek, referring to it as "traditional Greek dance music".

Oh good grief, there's even more. I think that's actually the chamber music version, the Siegfried Idyll, of which Wikipedia tells us:

It's embarrassing when you do better with google [search term] [site name] than with the site's own search function, and I am very much looking at you, A. V. Club.

Yeah, I think to save the logic we have to assume that it needs time PLUS powers.

That Forbes link in the review is mostly about this question.

Counter to that theory: why didn't his parents become immune over the years he was controlling them as a child?

Typo alert: although the text has it correct, the headline (here as well as on the main page) have the title as "PICK a bloody number"; it's TAKE a bloody number (as in, get in line).

It was Bring Your Own Rope.

I found it remarkable that when Fey came out for that sketch, the audience went nuts, as if she were a surprise guest as opposed to having been on stage most of the show so far.

Because then why can't his cousin know?

It seems to have become the custom that at the Christmas break you don't get a teaser for the next episode.

For all we know, this version of Lois, like "James", knows who Superman is.