FCI Danbury (the prison the book was written about) is actually right next to Lake Candlewood.

Leanne just walked off some 90s live-action Nickelodeon show and I love her for it.

Nah, I meant the new one. She was similarly awkward and wanted to spend more time on Earth.

Man, have you seen those churches at Lalibela?

Everyone hates the European localization teams.

The couple of "clod" jokes in this episode made me realize that the show has otherwise mercifully dropped it from Peridot's vocabulary.

It's been censored already, actually, just in Sweden of all places.

I like how there was one Ruby who seemed to be in the same position our Ruby was in The Answer. Let's hope the end of the game got some gears turning in her head and she finds a cute gem somewhere.

"You people have too much money!"

It started off as Go and then went straight to Yu-Gi-Oh.

Yeah. This episode was funny, but they probably should've come up with a better way of handling that trope.

Well, the summer vacation thing was only a sidenote. Summer doesn't officially start until June 21st.

I'm really hoping that when Rose was a Homeworld Gem she looked a lot like Jasper. We know she's changed her appearance at least a little bit, why not all the way?

It was fun in the aftermath of the Barn Mates leaks to see a part of the Lapidot fandom move from "fluffy crackship" into something else entirely.

Lapis is half JRPG antihero, half misanthropic sitcom character. What more could you want?

Well, some of that was table-setting for the next episode. It does represent an incremental change, but we still haven't even seen an apology. That dynamic still skeeves me out.

This was a weird one. The Barn Arc's been strange to watch from my perspective, because it's focused on characters who seem to go all-over-the-place from episode to episode. Compare Peridot in "When it Rains" to "Back to the Barn" to "It Could've Been Great" to "Message Received" and you'll get four very different,…

My guess is that, given that it's billed as a "Summer" event, we won't be seeing it until at least the 21st. Summer vacation never started before mid-June when I was in primary school.

It looks like Lauren drew her promo as a tribute to Tang, which makes me unreasonably happy.

I feel like when people insist that Lars shouldn't get any more screentime, they ignore that a.) his last significant appearance was all the way back in "Shirt Club", and b.) his characterization in that episode was already pretty far away from the insecure jerk we knew from S1.