Odd that the pickup announcement came before this. It’s hard to imagine Superstore without her.

It’s not common, but it happens periodically. There was one with indoor outhouses referenced during the episode, a raccoon sanctuary referenced during the episode, and a Halloween episode where Bob and Teddy got into a decorating war with the owner of the business next door. I may have missed some.

“It’s so cool that they’re bringing in Palpatine’s boss(?) after never mentioning him in any movies. So neat that he was just off-screen the entire time!”

This thing we’ve never seen before could be fine if done right. Have to try and explain your way around how it wouldn’t invalidate the Rule of Two. Get around that and go nuts. Have him be outside the Rule of Two in some way.

But making this guy somewhat lovecraftian could work. An entity that works on much longer…

The Gene story was great. One of the best they’ve done in awhile, maybe ever.

A PLAUGE ON FOX UNTO THE FOURTH GENERATION!!!

No mention of one of the best Andy and Olly moments of all time?

The small detail of the fact that Gene loses the beats battle in convincing fashion is one of those things that really sets Bob’s Burgers apart. I feel like a lot of shows would have set it up as the moment the bullying shop worker gets bested by a main character, but instead it hews much more closely to reality in…

Lyra: What guards?

Agreed. Top notch CGI but the focus was on Lyra when it should’ve been on Iorek’s victory. Totally robbed him of the most important moment of his arc.

Random Writer: Shouldn’t we put the armor on the armored bears? It looks kind of wrong.

Ioruk is about to strike the final blow on Iofur!

I think they avoided showing the victory so Lyra would temporarily think Iorek was dead, which was just pointless. Stripping the bears of their armour just made it look like a Transformers fight, where you couldn’t tell which of two similarly coloured blurry objects was winning and which was losing. Shame, because it…

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the show is a narrative mess, and I agree WHY WHY WHY remove the bears armor?? For *** sake it is their SOUL. It is their daemon. The show did not even bother to illustarte the difference in Iorek and Iofur

Well, I guess if anybody will ever doubt that a fight to the death between two gigantic (allegedly) armored polar bears could be rendered dull, now we can point them out to His Dark Materials. It was if everyone involved in its creation got bored by the concept. And the entire bear society boiled down to just two…

Agreed on most of your points. I was nervous about Iorek’s fight since he’s my fav character, and after seeing what they did I still think the movie did it better. They don’t even show Iorek’s victory really? Where’s the epic rawness of battle? The armor? They’re Panserbjorn, ffs.

You super called it, but fuck, man, the way this episode was put together was so shitty and clunky. We literally cut away from Lyra’s story to watch Boreal come through the portal again, and that’s it. It was so ridiculously stupid and unnecessary.

If the show is going where I think it is, it makes sense to pile on Pink Diamond stuff, because a big part of the equation that Steven has been missing since he first heard the story of Rose shattering Pink is that he doesn’t need to atone for sins that he wasn’t responsible for. He should help people because it’s the…

I think that “Volleyball” was more about showing that Rose did things that Steven can’t undo or make right, and that part of his growing up will involve accepting that. It’s a sort of companion episode to “Guidance,” in that childhood is all about possibility ... but reaching adulthood requires learning one’s limits,…