I would like to add the detail that the younger energy vampire, whose name I now (appropriately, I guess) forget, also gets the full-name-every-time treatment.

I had been thinking how great the dubbing was, but I guess I can switch to thinking what a spectacular Harvey Guillen impression Novak can do.

I will interject here that although I usually hate “boy, that guy is dumb” humor, the stuff that Minogue says on WP is next-level genius stupid.

We’ll note that both Keeley and Roy call the other “the cat’s pyjamas”, in separate conversations, which is cute.

They did throw out the possibility that the scolding by Beard was imaginary (and thus Nate’s own guilt), what with Beard vanishing into thin air and all.  Beard’s later nod to Ted’s “did I miss something?” argues against that, but not all that much -- real Beard is the one most aware of the problem regardless.

It’s been a week since I saw that scene, but as I understood it, after Nate says “wonder kid”, the reporter knows it’s a better quote as “wunderkind”, so he asks Nate “did you mean...” as a chance to get Nate to say that, so that he can “correctly” quote it in its better version.  Granted, the fact that it’s on live…

In fact, for the first time in my memory and probably in history, NBC has zero comedies on the fall schedule.

I also thought the facial animation acting was pretty good.

This is the absolute goddamn problem with trying to rationalize a meta-fiction concept like this. The whole f’in point of telling these stories is to play around and not have to worry about implications, but no, we have to “explain” how it’s a metaverse of multiverses of branching mothefckin timelines.  JUST STOP.

I imagine there’s a range of sizes at different prices, although, yes, that would be nice to be told about.

I didn’t know who he was, so I was listening to him and going “Is he Canadian...no, wait, is he Native American (First People up there, I think)...is he both?” Yup, both.

That bold type makes we want to see it written as Kara (Supergirl) Danvers, for old times’ sake.

It does make sense, and I spent most of the episode being annoyed at how the concept of What-If universes and the concept of the timelines here (which are probably not even the same kind of timelines as in Loki...probably?) do not work well together.

I presume this is all to be read as “It takes longer to negotiate a guy out of an existing contract altogether than to take away a side job he just got.”

And change to theme music to...the obvious.

“Still, one of the best jokes in the premiere involves the fake sponsors for the fake Serial podcast.”

And yet she is 29 years old.

Asimov has a story about VR porn, though, and by “VR” I mean wireheading.

I once asked astronaut Frank Bormann if he’d seen Star Wars.  “Not as good as the real thing”, was I believe the answer.

It’s still worth it, especially if you wonder what some of the film was actually supposed to be. (On the other hand, the destination point is Saturn in one and Jupiter in the other, so take it all with a grain of salt.)