Honestly, I was willing to give the episode at least an A- based on that scene alone. Or any of the bits where Coulson & Fury just casually dismissed Garrett's ranting like it was South Park. =P

Well yeah, there are obviously going to be some unavoidable continuity snags & bits of status quo. But it's hard for me to care about a plot about trying to provide a friend for Lisa when she made friends just a month ago, or again, last week.

No, that makes the show repetitive when they end up having to go back to the same dried-up well over & over for story ideas. It worked easier in the earlier seasons, but a plot involving say, Homer becoming a lion tamer because he feels his life has no accomplishments or excitement loses any real impact if the viewers…

Well, that's just stupid. That basically straight up negates any actual character development or emotional investment you actually put into the show if it's not going to matter in the end. The writers can't just pick & choose which lessons are going to stick & which characters are going to stay (case in point, Shauna,…

…Except the aforementioned Isabel episode from earlier basically had the moral of not letting contrasting views get in the way of friends. And even so, that's still a lousy handwave to try & justify the writers knowing squat about continuity from only the past few months.

I think I would've enjoyed this episode more if we already didn't have two episodes devoted to Lisa making friends this season alone with Isabel & Lucas. Hell, if you count those older girls she talked with about the Hunger Games expy, she was making friends last episode. In fact, they even showed Allison in several…

R.I.P. Mr. Goiter. Truly, his death was an act of bravery.

Yeah, but in the early days they didn't have to use mockbuster-like parody names, or explicitly point out the thing they're referencing, or make them plot points (well, Dracula, yeah, but that was kinda unavoidable). In those three cases, the writers actually figured the audience was smart enough to actually get those…

I just came in here kinda randomly because I saw the grade, saw that this episode involved "Helen Keller: The Musical", & then my mind went straight to South Park & I sorta skipped out on everything else.

So were there any specific nods towards any particular music videos in this? I sensed touches of U2's "One" (largely because of the buffalo) & Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" (if only because we shall forever associate any black & white music video on a beach with that), while Eileen's initial concept felt like something…

A- is a bit too much, but still a good episode despite some obvious jokes, the forced hey-look-at-us-we're-still-relevant-dammit Hunger Games bits that were shoehorned in, & the ending pointing out the similarities to The Lego Movie by directly calling attention to it (& possibly spoiling a bit of the movie's twist).…

I'm guessing the writers really wanted to bring Fat Tony back for a story, but couldn't be bothered to write a whole episode/story for him, & maybe there was only a certain amount of free time in Mantegna's schedule, so…yeah, again, quite forced in.

Well f***, my bad. Editing now.

Yeah, it felt like an executive said "Hey, you know what's big right now? Superhero films. I know, I just discovered that! Anyhow, can you work some bits involving famous superheroes - off-brand, of course - into a new episode somehow? It doesn't fit? Well f*** it, put 'em in anyway, we need to try & keep the nerd…

And Raising Hope, god bless its soul.

…Um, Dennis, no offense, but what episode were you watching? Okay, yeah, all the parts about Bart complaining about Homer not being a good dad felt clumsily tacked on to me as well, like the writers suddenly felt they needed to tie their opening bit about a superhero pub crawl(?) into the rest of the episode. In fact,…

The fact that the only legitimately funny part of the episode was a superfluous end tag made me pretty sad, though.

Well, it's still better than last season, which was basically a giant C grade incarnate.

Did anyone else think that the villain in The Equestranauts was Mentok, the Mindtaker? Sure looked like him.

…Well, to say this was a disappointment is an understatement. Compared to the previous "future" episode, it felt like they just decided to go the Seltzerberg route with this one, just throwing in references to as many lazy sci-fi tropes & references as they could (Zombies! Those are relevant, right?). And agreed, the…