Mr. Mayor, if you’re gonna screw me like this, at least buy me dinner first.

I like that this episode showed Bremer at his most competent yet. I didn’t like the idea of him being clueless or incompetent, he was just adjusting to and learning how the mayoral job works. Having the final resolution of siccing Arpi on the citizens panel be his ultimate plan all along was inspired and showed that…

I chuckled pretty hard at Danson’s polite refusal to call Bridges “Adolph,” and the ShondaLand joke was funny, but yeah, that just felt...off. Jayden in particular seemed to go from “childish weirdo” to “actually mentally challenged,” which admittedly is always a danger with these sorts of characters.

Susan’s wife being Woman!Neil was a great sight gag.

“Also, while I can’t remember the exact line, Tommy’s scathing reply about Bravo was perfectly delivered.”

“Susan, I’d like credit for knowing that I shouldn’t talk right now”

Yeah, I *think* we’re supposed to take it that, yeah, she sort of thought he was cute, I guess? But I wish we’d seen more of it. Mostly because Ruiz is a delight, and I would like her to come back.

This was a solidly stupid episode, which was just what I was looking for last night. Mr. Mayor is my new go-to for a weekly fix of mindless, funny entertainment that allows me to push aside all the real-world crap we’re dealing with, just relax and laugh a little.

The show also has a very banal “old people making fun of and/or not understanding millennials/Gen Z” that Fey and Carlock have been spinning for a while now and which gets more tiresome and stale the older they get.

She puts drugs in the water supply.

Is she even 17? I thought she was running for sophomore class president.

I’m more distanter, just so you know. And for that surely I get a prize.

Yes, that would have made it watchable. The Orville is a lot more in line with Star Trek than the new, serious, humourless, versions.

I’m reading it back now and it works in most of the characters’ voices XD

“Palmer and Gaiman, who married in 2011, have long been a power couple in the “Theater Kid-Turned-Steampunk Cosplayer” scene, so we can only imagine the devastation currently being experienced by who use words like “haberdashery” and “palimpsest.” Still, our genuine condolences to the Palmer-Gaiman clan, with hopes…

I think one of the best indicators of someone’s character is if they talk about their relationship to anyone beyond a very close friend or two (maybe, maybe your parents if you are unusually close.) To announce your breakup to the world just because some tactless idiots who’ve tossed change into your guitar case asked…

June Lockhart got a lot of press in the nineties for dating an endless procession of men half to a third her age. Whenever she was asked why she’d reply, “Because I can!”

I’m confused. Why isn’t Amanda Palmer allowed to announce her separation if she wants to? I was unaware she required Neil Gaiman’s permission to discuss her own life.

Yeah, I am not a fan of hers, but dealing with a sad, dramatic 4 year old who’s already struggling has got to be hard. I’d barely give this split a second thought otherwise.

Three little trident prongs are we,