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The line reading of Lisa's "What's going on here" around 5:38 in the episode made her sound more like Ralph than Lisa. Was anyone else immediately weirded out by that?

Ren & Stimpy, Bevis & Butthead, Daria, Invader Zim, Rocko's Modern World… There's been plenty of animation of previous generations totally divorced from SP/Simpsons/FG.

Last Man on Earth.

The mere fact that you call it that shows me that you're not ready.

Man, I really didn't like this episode. There seemed to be cases of television induced stupidity around every corner and it was hard buying the plot as a result of it.

It was Kumail. A yellow gun with an orange lightning bolt is used to shoot Todd in the beginning and the same gun was held by Kumail at the end. Also, the voice at the beginning is clearly Kumail's if you listen close enough.

That has to be the most creative spelling of masochism I've ever seen…

Louie leans on the sad sack divorcee trope a lot. These women are so similar, it's hard to tell them apart sometimes and they inevitably end up having sex with him out of gratitude. It's a bit of a weird failure of imagination for someone who usually takes effort to paint such diverse and memorable characters.

That was an amazingly missed opportunity to cast Jason Segel as Juror #3 :(.

The scenes of them recounting Simpsons lines in the first act is word for word what actually happened in real life. They filmed the original actors trying to recreate a Simpsons plot and used it to develop the play.

I love that he looks down when Teddy asks "Why are those lovely long legs walking away from me?" He's just full of delicious little characterization moments like that which really are the glacé cherries on top of the sundae.

What the hell happened to Martin's voice? Did they switch voice actors at some point?

He could start a law blog and call it Ben Feldman's Mind Meld.

Assless chaps doesn't mean the chaps are assless, it means chaps as part of an assless ensemble.

A law nitpick: Miranda rights aren't required to make something an arrest. Miranda rights merely ensure that any testimony you give can be used in a court of law. It's perfectly possible to perform an arrest and have Miranda rights read to you many hours later or not at all.

It was actually Justin Rosenstein :). He appears in the credits.

I'm really surprised at the positive reception this episode got because I absolutely hated it. Completely ugly interpersonal relationships and character being completely destroyed in service of plot made this hard to watch.

Did Blackish just do a pegging joke?

I love the zooworker's world weariness that conveyed he has to deal with this shit every single day.