I spent the whole time waiting for Dr. Mrs. The Monarch to come in and stop the fight.

Ugh, don’t even joke about that. There are people who’ve unironically tried to get that going ever since they gave in and let Snyder have Justice League back.

Absolutely. I wasn’t sure how to articulate that vibe, but that’s kind of where I was going with the ‘not because he likes them but for mom’s sake’ bit in my version of the metaphor. But your phrasing nails it much better.

That is an extremely good point. Not gonna complain if my metaphor was more on-the-nose than I’d intended.

I’ve been wondering if they might combine Young Avengers and Champions a bit for the MCU. It’d mean Kamala and Ironheart are natural fits. Miles Morales is subtly established to exist in-setting, so it’d be a spot for him as well.

When he interacts with Sam and Bucky, I’m getting a vibe from John Walker that I’d describe as “stepdad trying way too hard to be friends to the kids not because he likes them, but for mom’s sake.” Especially in the police station.

Which is why it’s so strange that the opening of Runaway Bride takes such pains to establish that Ike is a slanderous asshole. Why not just make him a journalist assigned to cover the human-interest story of Maggie’s latest wedding, rather than the unscrupulous writer who turned her dating history into a national…

Adam Reed got bored enough to consider wrapping it up back in season 3 or 4. That’s why they started changing up the formula (starting with Archer Vice, and then later with the coma seasons), so he could keep himself interested.

Later, he meets with Torres in Tunisia, who tells him about an online terrorist group called The Flag-Smashers, who reject international borders and also believe that the world was better during the Blip. Torres doesn’t dive deeper into how those two ideologies match, and it’s strange that they’re immediately…

I’m kind of intrigued to try this, as I’m one of those guys who’s often game for interesting flavors, but I gotta admit that whole ‘bright citrus-rich caramel-cola base-ripe juicy flavors’ sounds like a bit much to me.

Room service-size would be about perfect for what I had in mind. I’d be a lot more likely to buy a sampler pack just to taste test and/or share with friends than a single big bottle of something I’m only trying out of morbid curiosity.

Man, I miss First Watch. There aren’t any near me so I only get to enjoy them if I’m taking a trip that happens to be near one. Spoiler alert: I have made far fewer trips lately.

While the word ‘newstalgia’ annoys me enough to make me want to buy pizza from someplace else and eat it in front of a Pizza Hut out of spite, I’m kinda digging this AR Pac-Man pizza box thing.

I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again — I’m generally intrigued enough at these sauce/condiment combos that I kinda want to try at least most of them out of curiosity, but I don’t want to buy a whole bottle. Heinz really needs to put together some sort of sampler pack of small bottles or packets or something.

I love Cheerwine, especially the actual-frigging-sugar Cheerwine in the glass bottles. Cutting back on the soda is the only reason why I don’t chug it constantly, these days.

I’d appreciate it if White Castle could celebrate by opening a location closer than ‘almost three hours from my house.’

Hah, joke’s on you, I don’t like shrimp, either.

That’s likely partially because most of the EVOO sold in American stores is fake, even from major brands, and most Americans actually wouldn’t know the real thing if they tasted it.

A question I think that should be part of the larger conversation is if the finale would be viewed differently if its intended follow-up, the Doctor Strange sequel, were going to come out a couple of months later as originally expected instead of a full year.

First time I’ve seen him in a while, too. My first thought was “When did they start having Mandy Patinkin hosting TPIR but dubbing Drew Carey’s voice in?”