Adam Muto's confirmed that dealing with the fallout of meeting Finn's dad will occupy a bunch of episodes at the front end of the season. So get ready for some hard-core, butt-kickin' EMOTIONAL PROCESSING TIME!

I didn't watch the second ep tonight, but I wish I had now. That's a pretty key piece of the puzzle there, I think, knowing that Finn has reason to equate crying with actual harm to one of the people he's genuinely been in love with. He was already reluctant to show tears, and FP gave him even more reason to want to…

They've got a Grocery Kingdom too.

If it's any consolation, there's been strong hints that the AT crew didn't decide on this airing-order. Cartoon Network has done this kind of fiddling before (like airing "Heat Signature" a week after the obvious two-part second season finale of "Mortal Folly/Mortal Recoil").

It fascinates me that the AT crew has chosen to make Finn's emotional strife play much deeper beneath the surface than most cartoon heroes' might be portrayed. As much as the younger crowd needs the "here's what I feel, and here's how I show it, and that's okay" approach that Sesame Street pioneered in its day, Finn's…

No, I'm old because I'm old. I thought that pinpointing the heyday of my agreement with Pitchfork's assessment as being way back in the late 90s was the major tip off to that.

Chopstick walks.

I propose that we start using "Dog-blog-it!" as a bowdlerized curse word. We already know it'd be fine with the Disney Channel's S&P folks.

You say that now, but what if you came home to a litter of unplanned bullet vibes?

Who is more fool, the fool or the fool who chastises a fool? (Or the next fool who points it out?)

A mexican-percussionist standoff, perhaps?

But sir…this article…made me care!

Nothing encapsulates the dot-com era of Super Bowl ads like the ones outpost.com cooked up. They were ridiculous, approaching offensive, memorable for the sake of being memorable, and they didn't tell viewers a damn thing about the products the website was hawking. The gerbil one aired during the game, and the other…

Holy shnizz, if I'm not mistaken, that's Steve Martin doing the gumshoesque voice-over.

There had been plans for an hour-long "movie event" this season that has wound up getting scrapped. It might not have addressed any of this tumult, though, since it was originally going to air in the middle of Season 5, splitting the double-size season.

Yet again, I find myself impressed that the show creators are this committed to making their key characters do unlikeable things without making them seem out-of-character. PB's slow reveal as a Machiavellian ruler makes sense, considering she's created the whole of the Candy Kingdom out of candy bio-mass, and has a…

The Archmage of the Aether confirmed for being the current earthly embodiment of David Foster Wallace's ghost.

I'm by no means a connoisseur of Daft Punk, but "Lose Yourself to Dance" is better than "Get Lucky"?? That song sounds like they gave up halfway through writing it. The repetition of the melody and rhythm makes the back half of the song sound plodding. Pharrell sounds just as bored by what he's singing as I am hearing…

Why isn't there more attention given to the fact that Hootie actually won another Grammy? Doesn't this break that "Best New Artist" curse finally?

That Lego stage-dive/crowd surf is more elegant than any of my attempts.