"You might as well ask a horse to fix a merry-go-round. I mean, he'll try his best, but mostly he's just going to get horrified."

This was a great show. I'd like to humbly request, though, for Season 2 that AV Club enlist a different reviewer. My own opinion is that the show was smarter than the reviewer, but even for those who disagree, I think a reviewer who took the show a bit more seriously rather than just indulging in snark would be more…

Ok, thanks — lot of catching up to do clearly. Watching the Susan Strong and Beautopia episodes, she's clearly not his mother, but it still seems plausible that she could be his sister, given the matching hair and hats and her unexplained origins. But obviously there's a lot of lore to catch up on here…

I'm just blundering into this show and am unversed in its lore, but I'd always (incorrectly?) assumed Finn's mom was the underground hulk woman with the same kind of hat and hair. Or maybe an older sister? She seemed somewhat like him (apart from the brain chip or whatever that was), and that tribe of Finn-hatted…

For better or worse, I think he was actually doing Allen from Sleeper in the makeup scene. His "feminine" voice was exactly the same as Allen's during the brainwashed Miss America scene. I have my doubts about this episode of Louie (combining the makeup, rape, breakup, and running mascara is as much reinforcing…

Remember, the US is the place where they decided that making chocolate with fresh milk was too expensive, so they just sold Americans on soured chocolate and blocked almost everything else *for a century*.

Came to say something similar. Stray Observation 2 says:

Forget Swift — but please don't kill the film! A John Sayles Joni Mitchell picture would be awesome.

My theory is that they are actually from our own universe. This was based on my thought during this episode that the universes are indexed by the fine structure constant. This unitless number is about 1/137 in our universe, and the subject of a lot of early-20th-century speculation about whether it is exactly that…

"Cheesy" is not what that was.  A cliche by itself is one thing, a cliche that also gleefully kicks the urban/lesbian couple — yay small-town real-America! — is another.  Disgusting.

I would appreciate reviews, a la Game of Thrones, by people who have not read the book.  Scott and Zack seem to think they are not giving things away, but they are.  And that's because it's very difficult to avoid if you know the book, as we learned with GoT.  Please introduce naive-viewer reviews, particularly since…