I guess what I mean is that the asterisk pupil is a different sort of offputting than the show's unique brand of offputting. Rick and Morty may stutter and Rick may burp and have vomit pooling around his mouth, but the animation style itself is clean and clear. The asterisk pupil is the one exception, while Rick being…

Yeah, I don't get the asterisk thing either. It's such a small detail that is nonetheless really offputting. The show would look basically the same with normal black pupils! Why would you insert such an unnecessarily disconcerting quirk into your art style!

If you'd watch further, you'd see that underneath the darkness and absurdism, the show really does care about its characters. "Meseeks and Destroy" is a good episode to show that. It's subtle, but it works.

But Jim was totally the straight man. In fact, Brandanoquitz's major problem was that he was a Jim clone in a show that didn't need one

I liked the obvious attempt to move Finn back to his roots: a "super good," overly enthusiastic knightly protector of the realm. I didn't mind puberty relationship Finn as much as others, but it's good to see him back in paladin mode

What's funny is that after only five episodes on Community I find myself worrying that this will interfere with his Buzz Hickey role. He's so good on that show!

One day I hope to become solidly encrusted in a shell of pure cynicism

Whoops! I assumed this was a clip from the animated episode that's going to be coming up. In retrospect, this does play much more like a trailer.

I feel like the quality of the animation here isn't anywhere near Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas, which may hurt the episode, but as long as it's tightly written it should still be good. Is the entire rationale for the episode that the Dean's dreaming, though? Because that seems less interesting a conceit than Abed's…

I was pleasantly surprised by how Brick's subplot didn't grate on me. It was the most obvious candidate for diminishing returns, and there were some, but it stayed funny to the end for me (mostly because it was the perfect vehicle for a bunch of writers to pitch funny stuff and have it all get in)

The cameos are largely kept to one scene, and taken to such an extreme that, well, I thought it was funny

Add Wet Hot American Summer to that list for sure

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I saw it tonight, and I thought it was really very funny. It was also hardly constructed like a movie, going on these strange diatribes that plotwise seem out of nowhere but that definitely lead to good jokes. Nothing demonstrates its joke-machine nature more than Brick's subplot, which is like if Ralph Wiggum got to…

It's a little disappointing that there's half the peggle masters in this one, half of the fun of the first one was the amount of variety on display. I suppose with unique sounds for every master it became harder to make more, but I would have appreciated at least a few more returning masters from the first game.

Banks is in 11 out of 13 and Oliver is in 9 out of 13, I believe, so yeah, pretty much regular status for both of them.

I think that that scene, and much of the other more chaotic moments in the trailer, are from a "the floor is lava" episode. Which is kind of a brilliant way to do paintball without doing paintball

He's obviously blue

I feel like a lot of the people posting on this review haven't actually listened to it. And they should! It's a very, very good album that probably deserves at least a B+, in my opinion. Some very resonant themes about disconnection and loneliness, and pretty much every song is a great grower.

I think the issue is less that the lack of Harmon made fans focus in on the lacking parts of S4 and more that the TV savant nature of this commentariat made us focus in on the lacking parts of S4. I actually think about structure and character and theme and such when I watch TV (because I am a huuuuge neeeeerd), and…