I like the song, because as other people have said it’s a Cabaret reference. And Cabaret is a musical about a person who refuses to seriously face her problems, and instead prefers to disappear into the fake world of art. Just like Bojack!

I really like that one of the graffiti says “Anal Glands.” Because human tagging serves a similar purpose to animals marking stuff!

I think the key with Bojack is, every time he’s a little bit better. He gets a little bit further before he craps out, or he hurts people in a slightly less severe way than he would have in the past. It’s happening at a snail’s pace* with lots of backsliding, but I think that makes it a much more realistic and…

Per the Bojack wiki:

Bojack was born in 1964, which makes him 45 in 2009 and 54 now.
Mr. Peanutbutter was born in “the late 60s,” which makes him about 40 in 2009 and almost 50 now.
Diane was born in 1980, which makes her 29 in 2009 and 38 now.
Katrina’s age is only given as “50s-60s,” which would put her in her late…

I like the Todd/Princess Carolyn roommate situation, because I think the root of it is, they both just like having somebody else around. Doesn’t have to be a deep relationship - they just like low-key human interaction. That’s why they both fell into Bojack’s orbit; because he attracts people like that by making…

With regard to your specific points:
1) I saw it as, there was an organist there to do normal funeral music, and he was just willing to go along with Bojack’s request for accompaniment.
2) This is Bojack, OF COURSE he was so completely self-absorbed that he wasn’t paying any actual attention to the audience.
3) I don’t…

I don’t think this is right. Specifically, I think that in Season 4 (and some of the earlier seasons), Bojack’s struggle was about processing the bad things that happened to him, like his relationship with his mom and all her cruelty. It was about airing out and acknowledging the past. Then Season 5 is about him…

I don’t think that’s right. “Kid sadly waits alone after sports practice for a parent to pick them up” is a common visual trope. I know the Simpsons has done it before, and I’m sure there are other examples I’m not remembering at the moment. The Archer episode has (almost) all of the cast there talking over each…

The worst thing for me is that the left side of the screen has a bunch of reviews for episodes that are later in the season than the one I’m on now.  And those reviews frequently have extremely spoilery headlines or cover images on them, which is so terribly dumb!

I mean, I really don’t think the point of firing people was “so that we can go back to doing more substantive criticism,” but I sure do wish that were true!

I really liked the Amelia Earhart stuff on a number of levels. For one thing, it’s such a dumb-funny version of the story - she flies to the sun so everybody can think about what an uplifting thing she did, instead of thinking about where she is now. For another thing, it helps explain why she became an agent; she…

Diane has that great line in the first season when Bojack asks her if he’s a good person, deep down, and she says that she doesn’t believe in “deep down,” that people are just the sum of all the stuff they do. I think that’s pretty much the core of the show’s moral attitude - that it doesn’t make sense to think about…

(its also suspicious that the only meat they ever seem to try to replicate is beef. I have yet to see anyone try to replicate chicken, pork, or the multiple types of seafood out there).

Although I think there’s a whole nother dimension to this - it’s not just about what we see on screen, it’s about what happens behind the scenes. “Diane” may be a reasonably non-racist depiction of a Vietnamese-American woman, but there’s structural racism in the fact that a white actress got the role instead of an…

Maybe Little Caesar is Augustus, and Mr. Peanutbutter is playing his adoptive dad Julius.

I dunno if they’re on Comixology, but if you liked Saga you should check out Runaways and Y: The Last Man.  They’re both by Brian K. Vaughan, the writer of Saga, and they’re both really great.

It’s funny that you say that, because to me as someone from Vegas, Sam’s Town is the most sincere album in its depiction of what it’s like to actually be from Vegas.  I think that’s where the sincerity is, and that carries it past any issues with the genre or whatever.

I think that depends on how we define “bottle episode.” Are we defining it solely by everything being set in one location? Or is it a broader term, meaning “episode made under constraints in order to save money?” I kind of think it should be the latter. The interesting thing about bottle episodes is how they work…

TOM JUMBO-GRUMBO: A blog post about Jessica Biel is gaining attention for the seemingly minor detail that the candidate would not eat an avocado, calling the savory fruit, quote, “disgusting.”

That’s supposed to be what parole and probation officers are for.  Unfortunately, only some of those officers legitimately care about helping their charges - many of them view their jobs as essentially authoritarian and similar to prison guards.  The other problem is that the system is really badly underfunded, so…