Something was said. Not good.

"Why won't people focus on the unrelated tangent I'm trying to lead them on instead of the obviously false statement I made in reference to the subject of the article we're currently responding to? Damn liberals!"

You also said "all the time".

Anybody who's familiar with First Amendment case law knows about Skokie.

"There are not “many sides” to this issue. There is one, very clear side. 1940s America got that."

Right; she was a child who believed the fairy tales she was told.

Which is understandable, since she hasn't seen Sansa since season 1, and season 1 Sansa was terrible.

That strikes me as more of a mid-sentence switch from singular to plural; he's clearly referring to mothers in general and not just a single mother.

Tom Baker calls attention to it in City of Death, my favorite Doctor Who serial (co-written by Douglas Adams and largely reused later in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency): "'Take arms against a sea of troubles' — I told him that was a mixed metaphor!"

As long as we find out just what the hell he's up to first. I mean, obviously he wants to be Lord of Winterfell and bang Sansa in Ned's bed, that's a given, but it's so prosaic for a guy who's orchestrated pretty much the entire war. Especially given the reintroduction of the knife with the implication that he's the…

I remember something making the rounds where Donald was chasing the nephews around the house with a stick calling them "nips", but yeah, by postwar-era comics standards even that's pretty tame racism.

STOP! MILO!

There's a test-of-time thing at work here too. The Barks stories DuckTales is based on go back to the 1940s, the Disney Ducks comics are still freakin' huge in Europe, and while the comics are pretty niche in America in this day and age, we've already seen them influence a couple of generations of creators across…

Yeah, Scrooge has some serious colonialist baggage. Still, from what I've read of Barks, even when he used racist stereotypes, he tended to make the minority characters layered and sympathetic. (I'm thinking of the Bombie the Zombie story in particular; Bombie's the most sympathetic character in the story, just by…

There's a lot to say about Scrooge McDuck as a quintessentially American character, with all the strengths of the American Dream and many of the flaws that can come with success.

In animation, yeah, which is clearly why he was (mostly) left out of the original series.

Ah, sorry. It's been a few years since I read it. And while I routinely quote "and I'm the surgeon!" and "Rubber bullets. Honest." clearly there's a lot I don't remember.

He hasn't *always* been a jerk. For example, the Adam West version wasn't a jerk. That's the point.

It's delightful. It's about Batman turning into a jerk.

Or Harley Quinn, who wouldn't be created for another 25 years. But I'm curious as to whether they used any of it at all. Seems like if you can put Harlan Ellison's name on something, you may as well do it, since if you don't he's going to claim you used his idea anyway and sue you.