In all seriousness, I bet they're going to host videos of him doing material about personally-chosen news events of the day on HBO Now exclusively, with some cross-posting to YouTube as they've done with LWT. They'll try to draw viewers to HBO Now with Jon Stewart the way Crackle tried to do with Seinfeld. I bet HBO…

The mere fact that the scene plays out like that has got me seriously interested in watching this show.

I think at this point you should just succumb and watch Nathan for You. The first half of the episode is free on Comedy Central's website (http://www.cc.com/video-cli… which will give you a good summary, and there are probably other ways to find the whole thing. Ten minutes of your life.

Yeah, you got it.

Oh yeah, I always mix those up.

To further clarify, for those of you who don't watch the show, the ghostwriter (Austin Bowers) extemporaneously delivered the following passage when asked to "say a sentence":

♪ And the walls came down, all the way to hell

It's almost eerie how, in forty years, the conservative talking points about how society just isn't the same haven't budged.

I'm in no way qualified to come up with a plan of action, but that doesn't mean one doesn't exist. I don't believe the type of threats that we're dealing with here are trivial problem to solve, but I doubt it's an unsolvable one.

I don't blame local law enforcement either. It's not their job to take on an investigation with such an impossibly large scope, and the only way they could be effective would be impossibly onerous for the conventiongoers.

This so frustrating. This, right, here, is honest-to-god terrorism in our own country. Threats of violence based on a tightly-held philosophical belief divorced from all tolerance or empathy. Yet our government doesn't do a goddamn thing about. Just…ugh.

A few people have pointed out the Summit Ice website, but has anyone looked at the "Holocaust Facts" page they have? It broke my brain, because I was stuck between laughing at the ridiculousness of the premise and the tiny unadorned text and the link to Wikipedia, and being sobered by the Holocaust facts. The end…

I was basically thinking that this season IS their followup. It has a strong throughline, musical numbers, and a salient point that's coming more and more into focus despite (or, per Stunning and Brave, because of) the crudeness that surrounds it.

I felt the same way about the lecture, but on the other hand, based some of the commentary I've seen maybe it actually wasn't enough.

I don't think it's that South Park does it poorly, it's that it doesn't do it often (well, didn't, this season's been on point), so people aren't looking for it. Look no further than any random commentary on the episode from this side or others. Everyone just asking "what side are they on, are they for me or against…

I don't think they were making an ethical argument at all, so an ethical philosophy isn't necessary (which is to say nothing about the fact that your art doesn't have to reflect your own ethics, by any stretch of the imagination). The argument is a logical one: creating "safe spaces" as defined by the episode leads…

I promise you that "safe space" as a concept is anything but a straw man. The "safe space" concept is the reason why articles like http://www.nytimes.com/2015… exist.

Relevant musical theater reference: https://youtu.be/v2iyOLh0AA…

I've loved the Venture Bros. stream on the Adult Swim website for rewatching. I think they just play the whole series straight through on loop, so you can tune in to any random episode. At first I thought the out-of-order would be annoying, but it's actually really cool. Since I already know the story, I'm not lost…

By now probably nobody will see this, but I thought this episode was excellent. I felt like it didn't have a particularly advanced plot, but the simple story was told incredibly effectively. It's sort of a minor, slice-of-life day for the Belchers. I think it's nice that they can still get low-concept and do so…