Oe no!

I watched Sports Night when it was originally broadcast, and I was already digging the style and attitude of it. But when Guillaume busted that line out, it was a real stunner. We’d all become so inured to how casually anyone would invoke Rosa Parks by that point. This was the first time it occurred to me to see it in…

I think they ran the series some early morning a week into October, with zero fanfare. At this point, I’m convinced Cartoon Network constructs its schedule by throwing i ching that’s been customized with 20 hexagrams that all say Teen Titans GO!

What’s heartening to me is that it seems to be taking root as a classic in the sense of “beloved annual tradition,” like It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown has become. Rightfully so.

Then you did yourself a severe disservice.

Wait, those aren’t Californian accents?

He’s also been getting onstage to try out this material, but this was the first time I’d seen him perform a full routine, rather than dip into bits from a couch.

I got up early for some reason, and wound up having enough time to watch the special. And it was really affirming to watch, because it made me realize something I’d always loved about Patton’s work, which was always there: his joy when he performs is so palpable. Lots of comics show that they BELONG on stage, or that…

You tried to sell your wife? I don’t care if she’s not from America, I’m not buyin’.

If it suits you better, you can dive into the 4chan mindset. Instead of dropping it due to popularity alone, you can also proclaim that the show’s changed, jumped the shark, become shit, etc. and it’s mainly because some women quota’d their way into the writers’ room.

Damning with faint praise.

That’s funny, because there’s always a soft spot IN this pizza too.

The laborious pace and sense of internal uncertainty along its back-stretch of episodes made me feel like Eva was “not just about giant robots” because it became bored with itself. It rekerjiggered its focus and intent with a mighty shrug rather than a cohesive sense of what it was all about.

Oh my god...out of nowhere.

I’ve been skimming over the persistent complaints about the direction of the site since the move to Gawker Media/Kinja, because the folks at the AV Club kept insisting this was just a change of “venue” more than anything. I gave them the benefit of the doubt.

Ask your friend Joe. Ask your friend Jake.

Beef with Asian actors? Where are YOU ordering your take-out from??

Robo Grigio.

I think this is the sort of dilemma that Zack is touching on when he speaks of possibly going back to the well once too often with this show. For some folks, that moment of “how deep does the rabbit hole go” may be arriving sooner than for others. I also think, as ColourfulSevens says in this thread, the grounding…

Technically, Total Rickall was a clip show with clips we never saw (and if you want to stretch the point, the Interdimensional Cable ones were sorta clip shows too), so if anything, this show’s leaning into the fact that it’s not an original idea. They can and will come up with all sorts of excuses to throw out…