Frank Grimes was certainly a sign that they were running out of steam. Getting that self-referential is almost never a good sign. But the jokes were still pretty much in line with where the series had been. I took the panda thing to be the staff just throwing up their hands and saying, “You know what? We’re doing this…

I kept watching the show even after the precipitous drop-off in Season 10/11, but the breaking point for me was that episode where Mr. Burns forces Homer to prank people with him. “Jumped the shark” is kind of an archaic reference today, so I propose we start discussing when shows are “raped by a panda.” Because Homer…

Yeah, the thing that stands out to me any time I see anything from the last few years of the show is how TIRED all the characters sound. It was most pronounced with Marsha Wallace a couple of years before she passed. Now I just get depressed when I hear latter-day Marge because all I can think about is worrying about…

“I’m also curious how interviewing a guy who claims the refugee caravan is a Soros/deep state conspiracy fits in with the concept of a BUSINESS network.”

Jim’s thousand-yard stare as Michael insists he’s “cracking up” is haunting.

Absolutely. Venom usually gets lumped in with other 90s-era TOTALLY TWIZTED villains/anti-heroes. But at least in the beginning he very much fit into the model of most of Spider-Man’s most compelling villains because he had reasons to hate Spidey and Peter Parker. The symbiote behaving like a stalker ex-lover was such…

I understand why all the little coincidences in Spider-Man 3 come off as hacky. But I feel like that’s just Raimi’s affection for the comics shining through. Especially during the Lee/Romita years, “Amazing Spider-Man” was as much soap opera as it was superhero. A huge part of that was how inextricable Peter Parker’s…

Although...I can’t think of anyone more deserving to have a rat cage strapped to his face.

Also, both of these teams have won a World Series within the last decade, so there’s no supernatural heebie-jeebie bullshit attached to every close play.

Counterpoint - 666 is the number of the beast according to IRON FUCKING MAIDEN.

Participating in the political process is not allowable anymore because it’s “political.”

I once got followed around a bulletin board for days because I told some guy to “calm down” about Kyle Rayner replacing Hal Jordan as Green Lantern. “You just made yourself an enemy, you son of a bitch,” was the exact quote. Any comment I made on any topic, this guy was there to call me out for it. Things have…

It was funny when they just appeared among the demons in Yokai Town - “and there were some turtle-monsters with ninja weapons, too” - but then they just kept showing up over and over again. On the other hand, I was impressed with how he managed to work Popeye into the proceedings, so yeah, they’re not all going to hit…

Practically everything that happens nowadays is the absolute stupidest version of things that could happen. So yes, there absolutely will be a character named “The Watchman” in this adaptation of “Watchmen.”

I like Anno Dracula a lot, but also feel like Newman tries to be too cute by half with some of his allusions to other characters. It makes sense that Dracula would keep the Frankenstein Monster and John Merrick chained up in Buckingham Palace, but going out of his way to insert the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into…

The way they do things now I’m shocked they didn’t announce “Renfield: Origins” first. Thirteen episodes of bullshit punctuated by shots of him seeing a spider and licking his lips or something. Then the first season ends with them laying the first stone for the foundation of Carfax Abbey and everyone’s supposed to…

It’s so great that we’ve been trained to believe that “political agenda = bad.” Don’t listen to that guy, he wants something to happen!

Right around when South Park became a phenomenon, I remember an interview Stone and Parker did where they talked about how they wanted the show to evolve way beyond the limitations of its premise. They said that as big Monty Python fans, they were looking forward to the day when they could take the show into…

I love the “s” hastily added to the “LGBT” part of that flag. “Hey, whoa, hold on a second, we found another one! Gimme that marker!”