Agreed, though for some reason I’m not tiring of it as quickly as I did on Glee and others. Glee, it seemed to me, still wanted me to take things somewhat seriously or relate to the characters as actual people. Where I do not get that sense from Riverdale at all.

Or why don’t they hire different people to put together their own bit (sketch/musical number/pre-taped thing/whatever), disperse three or four of them throughout the show and have random celebrities introduce the awards as always? Then one person doesn’t shoulder the entire blame and with a bit more freedom to do what…

I really enjoy the theme song. It makes a perfect trifecta with the Futurama and Simpsons “lemmings march” style themes, even if the show isn’t there yet.

First of all, damn that cover picture has me wanting some Chic-fil-A. I love Chic-fil-A. Even back when my tiny grade school friends and I were debating if the mall food court location was pronounced Chick Filet or Chickfilla, like some god forsaken accident of the atomic age.

I am waiting for the day the adults in this town realize you are not actually required to take a meeting with Jughead Jones. You can say, "Shouldn't you be in school?" and hang up. 

I do not know how anyone can be in the same room as Hiram at this point without lunging to gouge out his eyes. Buncha Sarah Huckabee Sanderses in this town.

One of the single best line readings in film history. I will die on that hill, I don’t care. I scream BREAD MAKES YOU FAT?!? in response to my own poor dietary choices at least a couple times a month.

Yes, that dude is THE WORST.

My ex once dismissed an entire person because they claimed Spongebob was for children. “That’s...that’s just ignorant!” he sputtered righteously. There was a lot going on there, but that memory still makes me smile. On that point at least, he was correct.

It’s a very interesting cast and I feel like there’s something they could have done with that talent with this story, I’m just not sure this was it. For example, I am very interested to see what Seth Rogan and Billy Eichner do with Timon and Pumbaa. But less interested to see photo realistic animals screaming with…

“For all of these reasons we have decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground” just got an involuntary fist bump from me now, sitting at my desk. I know the internet throws this word around a lot but Christina Ricci in this film = iconic.

That is probably the only respect in which the remake suffers in comparison to the original. That disco base line in the old music was tight. The new music is just kind of a wet fart. 

It’s totally the tone that feels off, rather than what is actually being presented. What’s interesting about those panels and those characters is the contrast of this doughy dude and basic yuppie woman just hauling off and beating the shit out of people. It drove home what they got out of it and added a darkly comic…

Sprouse went full Nic Cage this episode and now the only way I want this to end is for the Gargoyle King to be made of bees. 

Let us also remember, Hermione, that one of the two people obsessed with Archie is a teenage girl. Just one.

I'm starting to think that the Boomers were the only generation to have it easy, and it has warped all of our expectations for how the world works. Boomers most of all. 

If it wasn’t accompanied by consistently xenophobic statements and actions, I would be more willing to split hairs on the nuance. He himself even admits that “we’re not supposed to use that word” which means he was briefed on its typical connotations and thought, “so?” Be skeptical. Don’t get hysterical. But also…

It leaves us in a world where political party is actually meaningless. It’s not a country divided. It’s a country being manipulated.

Hi, Trump is a white nationalist. He has said so out loud on camera himself. (“We’re not supposed to use that word. But I’m a nationalist, OK?” Followed by the crowd chanting “use that word.”) If you want to argue that he didn’t mean “white” nationalist and he was just trying to say I love America, go right ahead, but…

My Magnetic Fields instant gut punch is All My Little Words. When I was able to sing along to that song without choking up, that was when I knew I was finally over My Ex. The Big Ex. The whole thing is brutal, but particularly, “And I can make you rue the day, but I can never make you stay.”