And everything before and after that episode was fine, in my book. I loved the dynamic between Eleven and Hoop, and I was stoked how things turned out for them in the end. 

Doom’s carefree attitude apparently extends to paying his bills. He’s the Deadbeat Dictator.

Colbert introduced the segment with a Molly-Ringwald-as-Lady-Justice mockup

I don't recall reading anything negative about Ferrell or Shannon, but both Kattan and Oteri were nightmares to work with, if oral histories about that era are to be believed.

Gotcha. I’ll have to look out for that on my inevitably rewatch. I think I was primed by Strange’s line to expect something that involved him, and having already missed what you’re describing I thought that there was something larger that I also missed. 

Oh right! Good call. That was one of my favorite moments.

Sushi was considered exotic (and still is by some) 20 years ago. Now there are a dozen sushi restaurants in the Midwestern college town where I live (cue the clip of Homer trying every type of sushi in the joint after first expressing his revulsion). Insects probably will follow the same trajectory as their taboo…

*That* would’ve been a great explanation.

Yeah, I thought the scene was a little on-the-nose as it unfolded, but then I quickly realized that it wasn’t for me in the first place. There was a tween girl a few seats down from me who yelped and excitedly clapped, and that’s awesome. I don’t give a shit about whether or not it was “earned.”

Speaking of that moment (*SPOILER* talk follows), does Tony literally just swipe the stones with some slight of hand, or did he have a technological or magical—via Strange—assist? I feel like between that and Strange’s whole “If I tell you what is going to happen, it won’t happen” line I missed something.

I don’t recall him ever saying that, but there is that moment when *SPOILER* a certain hex-capable adversary angrily accuses him of having taken everything from her, and his retort is “I don’t even know who you are,” which amounts to the same thing, it seems.

Can you imagine him revisiting the scene with Kirk and the Orion slave girl?

I mean, how terrible are we talking, cuz:

**Casts Sam Jackson as Sisko. Lets him mother the fuck all over motherfucking Gul Dukat.

Someone in the comments yesterday was joking that if the Night King had actually spoke, he should have had a Minnesotan accent. Now I want the him to sound like Megan Mullally when she’s voicing Gayle from Bob’s Burgers.

“Follow-up: Is the Night King’s real name Tammy? No wait, I bet it’s Krystal. With a K. These questions may never be answered, but one thing is for certain: The Night King is fabulous.”

He’s getting a limited series on Disney+; the series will reportedly set up Clint passing the torch to Kate Bishop:

I still want to know if whoever had the idea is a Bob’s Burgers fan, because this is such a great coincidence otherwise:

Originally it was just Twigs, which if memory serves was a nickname she’s had since childhood. Some band was already using The Twigs and they asked her to stop recording under Twigs. So she just changed it to FKA Twigs (as in Formerly Known As Twigs, though she claims that’s not what it stands for). It might sound…

Shit. I just realized that I replied to you instead of commenting separately and now it’s too late to edit. I was going to reply to you with a fun (SFW) pic of Williams-Turner being sex-positive, but I couldn’t get the image embedded, so I skipped it. Then when I went back to make my own reply to the article I didn’t…