Were you obsessed enough that you got the M*A*S*H action figures and playsets? I remember when those came out, even though it was when I was a teen or something, I was genuinely puzzled about who on earth thought a child would be compelled to want to play with those.

Why the hell can't he be happy AND chant his own name? I mean, Christ, if you're so invested in something that you're near-hyperventilation and you know you're on television, you might do some shit that could come off as attention-grabbing. It's like doing karaoke. So what? It still can qualify as happiness.

Yeah, Cliffhanger man. The ones with more bells and whistles, the better. I also dug the hurdles one.

This guy is more excited about TPIR than I've been excited about anything, including oxygen.

FER-lin! HUS-key!
*clap, clap, clap-clap-clap!*
FER-lin! HUS-key!
*clap, clap, clap-clap-clap!*

I remember just a few bits and pieces of this, but it's a "cherished" family memory. My family was on a vacation in Toronto when Star Wars had first opened, and we decided to go to a screening. I was far too young for it, and I demanded to be taken back to the hotel in the middle of the movie. So my brother and father…

The folks of gagagaga have that plain-talk, tell-it-like-it-is way about them.

The Trash King himself.

Does Q*Bert count as a mascot? I hate that he's been resurrected for that awful Sandler film, but I always love his original coin-op vehicle. Other than that, though, I never really had much love for the mascots themselves, beyond the games they appeared in.

There's a great possum side-character in Night in the Woods. Well, he's not a character per-se. But when you find him, you'll be glad you did.

Yeah, but just some awe.

I've been playing Prey. I've put in about ten hours so far, but I'm one of those creep-around real slow, scavenge as much stuff as possible before moving forward kind of players, so that could be closer to six hours or so by other players' standards.

Errant Signal might be a bit too deep-divey for your tastes, but I like that he sometimes focuses on lesser-discussed games and developers, and really gets into the things games do that other artforms can't or don't do as well. I'm still new to his YouTube channel, and I fear that the more I watch, the more I'll tire…

I can come up with a few different contenders, and they're all from Built to Spill:
—Velvet Waltz
—Shameful Dread
—Carry the Zero
—the bridge between "Untrustable" and "Part 2," then followed by the outro of "Part 2" which may not really qualify as a solo, but it feels like one of the most marvelous expressions of emotion…

Smashed burgers aren't so special. I mean, they're tasty in a way that thicker burgers aren't, but I don't find that style of tasty a transformative experience. Most of the time I prefer a regular shaped and formed patty.

I nod, sleepily.

Moral Orel can be viewed as a two-season build-up to the darkest season-long joke in animation history. I haven't seen all of Bojack Horseman yet, so I can't say whether that topped it or not, and I know that Stamatopolous didn't specifically set out to make the show what it was. But it doesn't matter; the last…

Further counterpoint: Literally anything done by The Brothers Quay.

Read the book and watch the show? No thanks. I'll just wait for the video game.

Arg, I'm utterly enthralled by the show, but I've not read the book and I keep finding myself wanting to know which plot points were invented for the series and which are book-based. But I know that if I try to find out about the stuff I've seen already, it could spoil stuff for me that's yet to come.