This was nice to read through. I adore the movie, and I only really watched it once as a child before revisiting it a few years ago. But it's interesting to hear someone write about it when not only have they never seen it but they actively avoided animation for a lot of their life. I think it's fair to say that…

What I really appreciate about American Dad is that it actually follows through on subverting tropes in a way that Family Guy and latter day Simpsons never had the imagination to pull off. At the end of the day, those shows are still following standard plot structures and archetypical sitcom stories that hamper the…

Great episode. My favorite line was the one about having a panic attack on the toilet, classic sad old people treating existential horror as unfortunate, but banal. And really, everything was really done well from the frog heaven to Homer's redemption, and the only joke I didn't like was Homer repeating the first…

This was even better then the premier: brilliant colors, dynamic choreography, intense… tension, engaging conflict and a healthy spoonful of goofiness from the lord of darkness himself. There's a bit of gravitas lost from Mako's absence, but Aku is still dreadfully likeable, and I can't wait to see more of him.

That was then. This is now. Really, if his normal boy penis punctured the ball I'm even more facetiously concerned.

I mean, running jokes in pop culture existed before i can haz cheezburger. You could argue the show was just commenting on comedians or other entertainers who do the same act over and over, the one hit wonders of the world. It's the same thing, just on a different scale. Nobody wants to hear Achy Breaky Heart…

Well it served as a censor for us, but then the joke would just be: "look, Bart's swinging his dick around unencumbered on the basketball court, the basketball is just a placeholder." I think we were meant to imply that Bart was naked and was doing a trick with the ball to hide it. I don't think the ball was non…

Totally serviceable, and a handful of the gags were actually pretty funny. Milhouse was great from top to bottom. They didn't do a great job explaining why point shaving was such a crime though. I don't know jack about basketball, and while I followed along with the idea that they were hustling the system, I had to…

I love that the show is back, and I love that it's letting itself be as artsy and dramatic as it wants. But I'm also glad that its early 2000s cartoon whimsical cornball roots haven't been abandoned completely to tell its serious story. That was really the only concern I had for this new season. Given the artistic…

Well, it was predictable. There were really only two directions they could go with Navy, and I would have been more interested if they had stood by the obnoxiously well-adjusted schtick if only because that opens up new realms of conflict. Lapis and Peridot each had their own hurdles to clear when joining up with…

Thanks for the recommendation Laivasse.

Thanks Toby

I have no familiarity with the metal scene (even though my distant norwegian cousin apparently makes some of his own, I've never heard it), so I don't know how much of this I can take at face value. But given how often the term nazi is thrown around these days and how little you need to do to qualify as one, I'm…

I don't really get the way AV man scores these episodes. I guess I'm not feeling as betrayed by their reuse of an old episode to prop up this lackluster one, but the hot dog stand episode was way more dysfunctional and slapdash than this one in my opinion, and it got 2 grades higher. This was nothing special, but…

They say if you believe hard enough, all your wildest dreams could come true. Clap your hands everyone. Clap your hands and believe that even the most rote and basic truths of science are a sinister conspiracy meant to keep the truth from you. Believe that only me and my church buddies know the real story. The…

This did not work. The writers have once again managed to make Ronaldo more and more unlikable, but what's the point of it? They just paint him with the broadest negative strokes of a hyper-obsessed, maladjusted Internet weirdo and let that play out for 11 minutes. What's the joke? What's the message? This…

I just finished replying to a comment you made down below, so you can see my thoughts there (I appreciate the conversation you're trying to start about all this by the way, even though I disagree with your interpretation of the article). I'll summarize here for convenience sake:

I think the most positive route you can take is turning the disagreement into a genuine conversation where both sides are able to explain themselves and adjust accordingly, which I think is a strategy you already agree with. But even that isn't immune to criticism. People will challenge whatever stance you take in…

And a happy Miracle on Ice day to you my friend.

Blast. I thought you was being all sarcastic. Now the egg's on my face, just like the skeptics who said clones were but a thing of fiction when scientists announced the successful conception of Dolly the sheep. That was 20 years ago today…