> We already know that BoJack Horseman loves to set things up and do something with them later, but the purchase of the spaghetti strainers was so aggressive in telegraphing

Oh, good, because we need someone to go on the rocket with them and make sure it makes it all the way to the sun. So we were kinda hoping if you didn't have anything going on this week…

Every time I hear someone make that gripe, I'm reminded of the factoid that the favorite radio show of Alan Turing (you know, the gay guy who saved us all from speaking German once) was a BBC childrens program called "Larry the Lamb."

Yes, I'm sorry the lexicographers didn't consult you on this one. There must have been a breakdown in the standard approval process and I'm sure they'll do better next time — I've tried over and over again to impress on them that we need your approval *before* a new usage can be approved.

That's two incidents. How many actual Steven Universe fans participated in those? I'm just afraid you might be casting the net more than a little wide here. It's never good policy to generalize that a whole group of people is uniformly rotten because a couple of its members have done really shockingly bad things.

Isn't it a little convenient that Archfiend_Baramos and the head of the Russian Mafia have never been seen at the same place?

OK.

And the most persuasive critique you could come up with was "that was fucking stupid?" I take it you didn't have a creative writing concentration.

Ten seconds after you got out of the car, as soon as the coast was clear, the driver slumped over, revealing a complex system of pulleys and handles inside a hollow frame.

"Which is weird, you know, because I'm from Denmark…"

I dunno. I don't think you're crazy by any stretch, and especially after Gravity Falls I've gotten very keen on the UK-style "tell your story and go" short-run approach, myself. But for every True Detective, there's a Fargo, and after the first season of Stranger Things, I'll take more in any form I can get.

Yeah, I can really see how it's inspired your comment work.

Yeah, the comments have really gone downhill. Just today, I saw someone grouse for an entire paragraph.

Exactly, which is why she can't stick around for long! :) I mean, I'd love as much as anybody to see her focus her efforts on playing queer space warrior ladies, that's probably not *the* best thing for her career. :)

Heh, good points, but you've seen how she treats fully realized gems just like her. :O

Pfft, she's as dead as Rose Tyler or Wolverine, at the very worst. :)

I haven't gotten to catch up on the show or watch in detail, but I wonder if it wasn't just to stay out of copyright peril with game publishers? Kinda the same way a sitcom will often use a totally warped version of "Happy Birthday" so they don't have to pay any royalties on the real thing, but everyone knows what…

These have Charles Bronson in them instead.

He liek moobie maek da stopid cuck man mad!

I like that. Doesn't matter if they're good movies, or even make an intelligent argument. Complexity, accuracy, aesthetic quality — nope, just needs to be in that cozy part of the ideological spectrum where nobody will disagree with you. That sounds like such a comforting way to live. Shine on, you crazy diamond!