In all seriousness, the Anti Defamation League has an impressive research arm charged with investigating resurgent neo-Nazism in popular culture, including neo-Nazi appropriation of otherwise innocuous art.

Serial rape killed Cosby nostalgia. Pedophilia killed Seventh Heaven nostalgia (although Katie Couric — and the UP network — gamely pretended not to notice). And now neo-Nazism has come for Seinfeld.

@Soylent Green: "We own and control everything. Every back road we can teleport to block but jesus christ we never knew there was a giant, fortified Mayberry right here off a major road!"

Thanks BIGLY for this much-needed balm to the soul-destroying events of last week. Today's awful news of Gwen Ifill's death had started my tears flowing anew; this article — and the comments — gave me the first true belly-laughs I've managed in almost seven days.

I also dislike Spencer and join many commenters here in joining the countdown to his demise. That said, when Rick — justifiably — got into his face about the
pilfered guns and supplies after Spencer and Rosita returned from their
forced trip to retrieve Daryl's bike, I was kinda hoping that Spencer would snap back…

@Mr. Snrub: "[M]aybe she can grab a sniper rifle and finish off Negan before this show totally goes off the rails. If they're even armed that is, considering their weapons aren't considered missing somehow."

@Moderate Democrat: "But black voters didn't turn out for Hillary. It's one of the primary reasons she lost."

@LOAD asterisk comma 8 comma 1:
"Who gives a shit, there are no rules anymore."

@Froide: Neat post with cool questions. For me, almost all of the loopy leaders and 'civilizations' that the main cast have encountered since leaving Herschel's farm and the prison have left me scratching my head as to why and how these communities retain loyal followers.

@Soylent Green: Gold! "This song is growing on me though." Thank goodness; I thought I was the only one who found that ditty oddly compelling after the 3rd or 4th iteration.

@Beat Doctor: I'm digging The Kingdom, but I also totally agree with this. I, too, had the thought that TK members' wholesale buy-in would seem a bit more plausible if either: (a) Ezekiel and many of the other community members had been cosplayers before the apocalypse and had bonded after the apocalypse for that…

+1, @Flying Squirrel42: "I suppose this comes back to my problem with this show's universe in general and its disproportionately high percentage of psychopaths, sadists, lunatics, and doofuses."

Jon Stewart? Is that you?

Like several folks in the comments, when I watched last night, I briefly registered that the show was reprising last season's use of a classic fruit theme as foreshadowing, this time with pomegranates and Greek myth. I thought: "Given Carol's resistance to communities where shared bonds of affection obligate killing…

@Soylent Green: Hmmn. "…[O]ld lady ninja?"

+1, @psychic_hits. Ezekiel has put together a pretty nice set-up. And — unlike several of the other leaders we've seen (including Rick) — he's self-reflective enough to monitor his progress and self-aware enough to know where his skills and execution could bear improvement.

While tonight's choral nod to Dylan massacred my all-time favorite Dylan tune, it nonetheless sparked a eureka moment in which I belatedly realized what key element this zombie apocalypse is missing: a Swing Choir, complete with costumes.

Really enjoyed this review — and, surprisingly, this episode. When a zombie plague turns humans so craven and dangerous that the ravenous undead are actually the least of one's problems, rescuing one's zoo buddy and converting one's community theatre training into an extended Ren Faire performance is the better part…

"I wish I could see the "For Your Consideration" Emmy stuff involving
George Clinton on a high school auditorium stage with Tony the Tiger."

@Skipskatte: "… the umpteenth iteration of "crazy murderous asshole has a cult following and kills a bunch of people we supposedly care about." Eventually it really strains credibility . . . if humans were as shitty as they are on this show we'd have died out millennia ago, and every time there's a blackout or natural…