Good God, I hope not. I would liken this to seeing the characters eat tomato aspic or similar other putrid 50s/60s shit, and I hope that it works about as well as product placement as that would. (I can't remember, didn't we watch some of the characters eat some truly vile 50s/60s-style crap made by Betty in the early…

Yeah, that was a gorgeous line. But it adds an extra layer of brutal irony that Hershey's is some of the worst chocolate in the world. Americans were suckers, buying enough "milk" chocolate utilizing rancid-tasting milk to build a town. And a theme park.

Have you explained to him that unless there's a Nielsen survey box in his household, Comedy Central is never going to know that he watched them and therefore won't be "rewarded?" What a doofus. It's time for the show to go.

Yep, I'm fully expecting that. I seriously doubt these episodes are aired in anything even remotely close to their production order. I imagine that next week we'll be back to "Butterjunk"-level quality.

You can get an overall idea of viewers' opinions from the numerical averages in the GEOS survey:
http://geos.tv/index.php/li…

It seems like the budget cuts were applied more to the writing team than to the animation. The animation is just as good as it ever was, if not better, but after resurrection the show has never been as packed with jokes as it was on Fox, apparently because each writer had to work on each episode alone and they weren't…

I definitely used to rate "Picture If You Will" as one of the worst episodes of the entire series — and this is coming from somebody who really LIKED "That Old Black Magic." But I re-watched it recently and appreciated it a bit more than the first time. It's still not very good IMO, but Virginia Hey gives a great…

Yeah, back in the 80s and 90s, PBS seemed to get away with nudity sometimes. I wonder if this was some kind of unspoken allowance. Also, there were no advertisers to piss off.

Actually, now that I'm caught up, I'm amazed to find myself almost kind of defending this show, at least to the extent that I don't think this episode was blatantly trying to pass off any character as a really real suspect… yet. Not at the level of season 1 anyway, insofar as they're not going excessively far out of…

This was my reaction exactly! Maybe this is transference and I'm deflecting the blame away from myself, but I want to say that the problem isn't us; I suspect the problem is that the writers are bored with this police work. They're really only excited by character stuff. You can see the same problem in countless crime…

This means that for any of you who haven't seen it, it's time to get into Farscape. TV Club Classic is reviewing it.

Ah! Thanks, I knew I'd seen the whole taste/smell duplicate thing before. Actually this concept is a sci-fi staple, so I'm sure I've seen it several times before, but the smell/taste bit was evocative of something in particular. I'm always fascinated by a copy who thinks (s)he's the original and is anguished to…

Ask Venezuela, Burma, and Iraq, I guess.

I had really mixed reactions to the episode, but I loved the absolutely terrifying bit with Lemongrab eating Lemongrab.

I don't dig this "butt for a face" stuff. That's the ugliest character design they've ever come up with on AT, bar none. Jake Jr. is a one-joke character for sure and should've been dumped quickly; only Kristen Schaal makes the character tolerable to me. That "face" is way too disturbing in a stupid and annoying way,…

I'm two episodes behind in my hate-watching. Any signs of red herring dumb-fuckery yet, or have the writers not yet gotten pathetically desperate in their quest to drag another routine episode of a CBS procedural drama out across an entire season?

Before this lawsuit, the Free Music Archive (associated with WFMU) turned this predicament into a contest, and solicited new copyright-free birthday songs to replace "Happy Birthday to You" thus bypassing Warner/Chappell's bullshit:
http://freemusicarchive.org…

Thanks, that's really helpful! I was surprised at how decent I thought the pilot for Sinbad was. It really works a lot better than it has any right to. I presume it doesn't end on a cliffhanger like The Fades did, then?

Agreed. Bee is awful. Too hammy, too obvious.

@avclub-9b60cf1b2106f886f17cba2b1a0359b9:disqus Re: Blue Scholars: do you mean this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watc…