It feels like a cheezy, overwrought-symbolism kind of observation to make, but I always have to make it because it just feels right:

Not only is that one of my favourite South Parks, but it's also one of the only LOTR parodies in existence that doesn't make me groan and roll my eyes.

Home Movies is the best at that. (Original comment was suggesting it because somehow I missed it in your comment. Now, feeling sufficiently stupid, I have edited and replaced it with an empty agreement).

This is something I have often noted as a key contrast between Loren Bouchard shows (Dr. Katz, Home Movies, Bob's Burgers) and Adam Reed shows (Sealab 2021, Frisky Dingo, Archer) — a comparison worth making with Benjamin starring in both of the current shows.

I love the Three's Company bit so much: the way the rouse is instantly deflated by someone asking the sort of simple, obvious, direct question that never gets asked in that kind of farce, while Fry desperately tries to invoke the laws of television by singing the theme song…

According to the DVD commentary, the "Fry misses the button" joke was subbed in for what had originally been an entire lengthy plotline about them seeking out the universe's best billiards player to make the critical shot with the trashball. (This appears to have been one of those Futuramas that had a movie-length…

PRECISELY the line I was thinking of :D

Indeed. I love Andy & Ollie, but they have never been as hilarious as Walter & Perry when it comes to extended sequences. I can still watch the latter talking in the back pew at a wedding and laugh uncontrollably the entire time; A&O get their biggest laughs off of how they read individual lines. How many hairs are up…

Hmm, what if Whitehall somehow unloaded his aging process onto the infant Skye, or stole her slow-aging ability?

I just realized also that we are all assuming the SHEILD agent who got Skye and took her to the orphanage was not, in fact, a HYDRA agent herself… So I suppose there are a lot of ways this could go.

Oh right that makes some sense — like, he was somewhere else at the time (thus not being taken in — or i guess just because he wasn't old), found her body, then raced back to the town. But I don't know, there are still a lot of bits of the details there that don't seem to line up to me. Did the SHEILD agent find Skye…

Okay so… let's ruminate on these developments. Because I've got some questions:

I recently rewatched the earlier seasons, and for Leona I don't think it's a change — it's supposed to be something that was always there, but they had to bring to the surface. The first time she fights them — the big meeting with Charlie, Reese & Leona after ACN targets the tea party and the Koch brothers — Charlie…

It's true this episode handed Will another White Knight moment — but it felt a lot more earned this time, because what he did actually makes a lot of sense. The government is going to be way more gunshy about charging a nationally recognized face with espionage than a staffer nobody's heard of. It's also why Neal, who…

Just because it's the first place you heard about it doesn't mean it's "obviously the inspiration." People have been discussing this for a long time — first only in the inner circles of the industry, then in hyper-focused gaming blogs, then in more general appeal gaming blogs, then eventually in regular blogs and news…

I think that's a little unfair. South Park occupies the same cultural space as Cracked (and has been there longer, in fact) and there's a lot of crossover between their subject matter. There's likely some influence flowing both ways, and let's be honest: there are probably more Cracked writers who have gotten comedic…

More love needs to be thrown at the whaling song. The premise of a bunch of whalers going to the moon only to discover there aren't any whales and sing about it is such beautifully conceived absurdity — one of those times where Futurama crams what could be the entire plot of an episode into one joke.

I really think you're understating the importance of the topic. Maybe I'm biased because I've followed this topic for a long time, but it IS a big deal, or at least a highly interesting one — games are the fastest growing form of entertainment, mobile games are the fastest growing and most profitable form of games,…

Even more critical for establishing this side of Stotch Sr. than Butters' Very Own Episode: Marjorine, where it takes no time at all for his dad to believe he's undead.

I've always thought it was weird that the show seemed to want us to take it for granted that the whole well/brother-torture thing as told by Ward was definitely true. I guess because it was brought out by the Berzerker Staff, and thus presumably beyond his power to lie? Still, I never fully bought it… I like that it's…